Tim Doucette, a blind astronomer who built the Deep Sky Eye Observatory

[nyjah]

Off-topic, but I was watching this golf instructional video from the 70’s or 80s by Gary Player. And he’s talking about all the different golfers he’s played with and he mentions this blind golfer,

“Blind golfer offered to play me a round for $100/hole. He had two rules. We play his home course and we tee off at midnight.”

[nyjah]

Initially when I made the comment I was hurrying and forgot the blind gentlemen’s name. It was Charley Boswell. Just thought his name deserved to be in my original comment but too late to edit ..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Boswell

[Xen9]

Human evolutionary history may beg to differ in that the nervous system has evolved to be optimal for processing input from the natural senses; but the mighty truth is it is all mere signals. With sufficiently biochemically sophisticated interfaces, and potentially medicine to ease the adaption, any signal source can become a sense. I must underline that a link between "a sense" and the neurvous system can be monodirectional but "should" be bi-directional; if we give a person a sense as the ability to percieve the traffic of an arbitary server, we will be humane and ALSO give them the eyelids to ignore and open their perception of the ports. Which parts of the brain are best for such interfacing? I believe the commonly spread understanding of the notion of a sense must be uncomplete; were one sense closed, there is no reason we could not put two senses in its place. I imagined sort of graph structure connecting senses but this intuition hide away partially, and I cannot elaborate it further now...

[raducu]

> any signal source can become a sense.

A new sense?

That's unheard of. We can map any signal to an existing sense, but not create a new sense/sensation.

That would be one of the most relevant developments in human history and a gigantic step towards cracking the whole qualia problem.

[free_energy_min]

In case it’s interesting, the book Livewired talks about this. The author also has a company called Neosensory which converts sound into physical vibrations on a wristband

[shariqm]

if you can't view the video in the link from your location, it's on youtube too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHKopqVI_cw

[noyesno]

Also: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-290-russian-doping-ass...

[jvm___]

That's an unfortunate URL abbreviation https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-290-russian-doping-ass

[interludead]

Remarkable power of resilience and passion! Tim Doucette's story is incredibly inspiring

[mad_tortoise]

Not available in my location: "There was a problem providing access to protected content."

Please let me know if someone has a mirror/alternate link.

[spullara]

he sees better than other people for this use case

[cdf]

Cant watch from my location, just want to know if he is the inspiration for the blind character in my favourite movie, Contact.

[nativeit]

I couldn’t play the video on iPad OS Safari. Just FYI. Sounds interesting.

[aledalgrande]

This was so heartwarming

[fazmi]

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