• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    I mean a can opener is very different, no? Or at least it is when I try to put myself in those shoes.

    A can opener can open cans but nothing more. Sure you gain one piece of functionality, but you lose others.

    Geordi’s visor was a bit different in that he could see the visible light spectrum, but also a bunch of other stuff.

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      bit different in that he could see the visible light spectrum

      he could not: https://i.imgur.com/dlVpyIo.mp4

      would you want to see like that? i mean if you were born blind and this was your only option, it is definitely better than nothing, but other than that, it is hard no from me.

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        13 hours ago

        That’s a visual representation, in the visible light spectrum, of what he sees. He would see it differently than what appears on the viewscreen.

        There’s also nothing there that shows or says he can’t see the visible light spectrum.

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          There’s also nothing there that shows or says he can’t see the visible light spectrum.

          there is, it is exactly there on the screen, his perception of visible spectrum is just one step above nothing. would you want to see like that? accompanied by occasional technical problems and pain? would you call that superior to your eyes?

          He would see it differently than what appears on the viewscreen.

          that is just unfounded assumption, if you want to argue like that, you can make up literally anything and the discussion loses sense (not that the level of sense was very high anyway 😆)