Greetings,

Though interesting and bears much hope of success, I suspect this is really
only going to be useful to those who have had sight and lost it.  for, if a
person has never been able to see, is maybe well into adulthood, how is the
brain taught the way of seeing?  A totally blind person who has never been
able to see, cannot appreciate how, for instance, a three-dimensional
object can be represented on a two-dimensional surface and how does one
teach the brain about perspective?  Maybe it would be possible for the
brain to "learn" in much the same way that a stroke victim "learns" to
"speak" by using some other less-a-activated part of the brain.  In all
such cases, though there is always much gain, the abilities are far lower
than would be naturally the situation.  so, I suspect if it is found the
brain can learn to "see" through these eyes, it will be a fairly long and
tortuous process.

I really hope my cautions are proved wrong and that we can easily learn but
I foresee the strain of suddenly moving from the "world of the blind" to
"the world of the (hopefully) normally sighted" will be difficult and need
much suport.

I just wonder how people could be trained to help in such situations for
it's a totally new area and will have a very large learning curve.

Cheers.


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