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In people with the condition, the cells were arranged in matching patterns in both eyes, which may be to blame for confusing the brain by producing
by pavement 9y ago
In people with the condition, the
cells were arranged in matching
patterns in both eyes, which may
be to blame for confusing the brain
by producing “mirror” images.
I mean, geeze. I’m kind of flabberghasted reading that.
Wow. Weird. Of all the things. A rare moment when symmetry in the human body turns out to be a bad thing. I guess if it was going to a problem, optics would be the rational place where that sort of issue to seems to crop up.
- shamas 9y agoThis feels like a scenario where something is so weird and surprising that it is almost certainly incorrect. Amazingly weird reasons are almost never the reason.
- twobyfour 9y agoWhy would this be a problem for reading but not for every single other freaking task where both eyes look at and identify the same object?
- to3m 9y ago3 random guesses: - most objects are larger than letters - the details of most objects are less relevant than with lettering - you can spend more time recognising each thing, whatever it is, without slowing yourself down so much that the task becomes intractable (when reading, you have to recognise, and correctly, a lot of letters per minute)