Do we really need eyes to see?

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What is it that makes us perceive this world, guessed it right ,the brain. Probably the most mysterious part of our body , as complex as it gets. Turns out brain has an ability of making sense of data thrown at it. Our eyes are responsible for converting visual data in form of signals to feed it into the brain. Which slowly learns to make sense of it. How exactly it does that is still a mystery.

What if those visual signals may be passed to brain in some other way, Formally called sensory substitution. It can be through skin , ear , nose , even tongue or how about providing visual data to brain directly. One such example is Brainport in which pixel data is transmitted in form of electric pulses through a persons tongue.Sounds pretty cool to me.

So what is the point. The thing is what we feel as real is mostly in our head really being just matter and energy, how brain makes sense of it is remarkable. We possess such an amazing machine so why just rely on the sensory information that we have access to today, how does it sound to feel all sorts of stuff like facebook data, twitter data , stock data etc, all of it becomes a part of real time sensory experience , part of your world, indeed a change of reality. 

I am no neuroscientist , but i am amazed by this machine we possess. As we move towards understanding the inner intricacies of our brain , we  may uncover marvelous things. This thing really excites me. Understanding it may take us lot closer to understanding ourselves , as being said by David Eagleman in his book "The brain" :

"In the infinitely dense tangle of billions of brain cells and their trillions of connections, something emerges that you might not have expected to see in there: you."

I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to have a deep dive into the fascinating world inside us.
 

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