Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish red objects from a darker background
Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish red objects from a darker background
I wonder what it’s like to sudendly be able to see a new color, that must be an interesting experience
The discussion portion of the research paper (linked here) summarizes what many of the patients felt after treatment:
Probably not what most expect but still interesting regardless.
There’s a pretty famous thought experiment about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
I love it when we get answers to what were thought experiments due to new tech or discoveries.