• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    19 hours ago

    Hypothetically, if we managed to make a genetically modified human with the eye that you are talking about, what advantages/disadvantages would it have over our current eyes?

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      17 hours ago

      No blind spot and probably better light sensitivity. But it’s not like we really need higher light sensitivity as land-dwellers.

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        15 hours ago

        better light sensitivity

        I like to think of it as “colors and light so brilliant and pretty it’s like tripping shrooms”

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          15 hours ago

          It does, but their eyes still have blind spots and their eyes could possibly be even better if their photoreceptors were oriented towards the incoming light.