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Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed

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360 points danielmorozoff | 1 comments | 24 Aug 25 09:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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devinprater ◴[26 Aug 25 18:21 UTC] No.45030311[source]▶
I'll let other blind people go first, but I'm definitely some one that would love, love, love to be able to see. Driving, knowing body language, playing any and every video game out there, shoot yeah!
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fracus ◴[26 Aug 25 22:20 UTC] No.45033075[source]▶
From what I've read, if you are blind from birth, but visual signals were suddenly restored, your brain wouldn't know how to process them. Blind from birth = blind forever. I'm not certain though.
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vjvjvjvjghv ◴[26 Aug 25 22:47 UTC] No.45033286[source]▶
I think the brain would adapt. It may take a while but the brain is very flexible and adaptable.
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spondylosaurus ◴[27 Aug 25 01:57 UTC] No.45034624[source]▶
Case studies suggest otherwise, at least for most people.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not...

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nsonha ◴[27 Aug 25 08:30 UTC] No.45036895[source]▶
don't have full article access but this part near the top makes it not applicable to the situation being discussed (blind from birth)

> since early childhood

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1. Timshel ◴[27 Aug 25 12:07 UTC] No.45038536{3}[source]▶
In a way it strengthens it since even if he became blind later one, still:

> It was, rather, the behavior of one mentally blind, or agnosic—able to see but not to decipher what he was seeing.

And while he does get better, it does end up with:

> But then, paradoxically, a release was given, in the form of a second and now final blindness—a blindness he received as a gift.

Cf: https://web.archive.org/web/20240111185639/https://www.newyo... (older version does not trigger the paywall or at least can disable it while it's loading).