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RE: Optogenetics: What is it, and how to make voles fall in love using it. Because SCIENCE !
Excellent question!
Seeing as the mind is very flexible in the data it interprets (some humans can echolocate, as a replacement for sight, for example) I believe one would only need to devise a structure similar enough to the cones in the eyes that provide us with sight, but reacting to exposition of X rats or infrared, and sending signals through the optic nerve like the other cones.
Course, this is a theory.
You got me interested but Im still thinking about that x-ray vision idea :D Sure, echolocation is possible with blind people but thats because we already have that skill. They just managed to intensify it and learned to process the information better. You can already tell where the sound is comming from and you can hear different reverbs of defferent spaces aka sound bouncing back from surfaces.
But x-ray vision is a different beast! We can only see narrow spectrum of visible light which cant go through objects. UV and IR are not doing any better. There were experiments in which they made retina of mices react to infra red thanks to chlorophyll so they gave them temporary "nightvision". But if you want rays to go through objects you are left with radiowaves or gamma. The two extremes on opposite sides of spectrum. Since there cant be any external device emitting these rays the question is how much gamma is around us already.. and even if there was... solid objects tend to absorb smaller doses of radiation rather than it would just fly straight through.
Anyway, thanks for an interesting theme :D
Hmmmm... OK.
You got me there. Xray vusion does seem to be rather imposdible to establish like that.
And were not even talking about the effect enough radiation to set it off would have on the rest of the organism XS
No problemo. Its always a joy talking about interesting science 😊