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People with total colour blindness able to see red after gene therapy (www.newscientist.com)
submitted 1 year ago by haddockseyes@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social
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Thanks to gene therapy, people who could previously only detect shades of grey can now distinguish red objects from a darker background

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[–] hetscop@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what it's like to sudendly be able to see a new color, that must be an interesting experience

[–] haddockseyes@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a pretty famous thought experiment about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I love it when we get answers to what were thought experiments due to new tech or discoveries.