Feb 24
The human brain is wonderfully plastic. So much so that researchers have been able to teach a blind man to see with his tongue. They took a video camera chip and wired it’s output to the patient’s tongue in a small 16x16 pixel arrangement. His brain circuits rearranged themselves to perform visual processing based on the neural input from his tongue, and the patient was able to see well enough to drive around cones in a parking lot!
