Originally posted by eclipse525
Hence your anwser.
Think outside the box. Think potential and not limitations. The capacity is there but we haven't develop to that point yet BUT it will. Unfortuneately not in our lifetime. The beautiful thing is that there some exceptional people that come along every once in a while that kinda give us a glimpse of our potential.
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The brain is an awesome creation. How many transistors in our favorite processors? 50 million or so. How many neurons in our brain?
100 billion. And each neuron connects to 1,000 to 10,000 other neurons. And there are another 5 trillion cells in there that help shape the way the neurons communicate. So it is capable of a lot.
But that article is pure junk. Weekly World News quality. No doubt about it. It is interesting to wonder if such a power would be remotely possible.
We marvel at the way dogs smell, and we could be that good at smelling with just a few changes. Dogs added that ability (or we lost it) in probably a fe hundred thousand years. Bees see the flower colors in the "non-visible" spectrum (UV? Infra-red? one of them). No reason why we couldn't. We have 3 color receptors in our eyes. Some animals have two. So we have "super powers" of vision in comparison with them. X-rays are just farther down the radiation spectrum. But it wouldn't be that useful to "see" x-rays unless you could convince people to walk in front of an x-ray source you lug around! And the high energy of the X-ray probably means that it couldn't interact with the photo receptor in your eye since it would just destroy any protein it hit rather than be captured by it, like visible spectrum light is with our eyes.
So even if our brains had untapped potential, it doesn't matter if there are physical constraints on how what we are made of interacts with the world.
OK, so I'm going on a bit long here. Just wanted to share one other cool factoid about color vision. There are some subtle differences in the three color receptors. So if I have two copies of Green-A, then I may see green a little differently from someone who is Green-B or someone that is Green-A/B. Some women already have "super" color perception, because they inactivate one of their two X chromosomes in each cell at random. So they may have one cell that is Green-A and one that is Green-B.. meaing that they will be especially acute at both those wavelengths while other women and all men will only see part of that spectrum well.
