Bionic lenses: 3x better than 20/20 vision

[Dennis Leahy]

"Technology"..."Alternative Medicine"..."Health and Wellness"..."Conspiracy Research" (transhuminist agenda) - so where does this article belong?

As a kid, I had 20/10 vision - yeah, better than 20/20. My 61 year old eyes have now done the metamorphosis that most people's eyes do by my age, and even 20/20 is but a faint memory.

Almost nothing I have ever read about transhumanist "upgrading" or better-than-original bionic body parts has ever caught my interest. Then, this came along: Ocumetics Bionic Lens could give you vision 3x better than 20/20 and I have to say, my "eyes perked up."

Is this how it starts? (acquiescence to the transhumanist agenda) Do we all have that weakness we'd love to see corrected...or made better than original? What's next, and what would make you sit up and take notice? How about if there was something that allows us to have complete access and control over our pineal gland - or even magnify its normal abilities? Or something that completely removed our amnesia and allowed us full and complete conscious access to our entire soul timeline? What would be something that would make you sit up and take notice?

Is this really just a variation on a corneal transplant combined with contact lens technology...or is this the door cracked open to the transhumanist agenda?

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Imagine being able to see three times better than 20/20 vision without wearing glasses or contacts — even at age 100 or more — with the help of bionic lenses implanted in your eyes.

Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia who invented the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, says patients would have perfect vision and that driving glasses, progressive lenses and contact lenses would become a dim memory as the eye-care industry is transformed.
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Webb says people who have the specialized lenses surgically inserted would never get cataracts because their natural lenses, which decay over time, would have been replaced.

(image caption)Dr. Garth Webb says the bionic lens would allow people to see to infinity and replace the need for eyeglasses and contact lenses.

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[Lifebringer]

Looks like Jordy on Star Trek's Next Generation, AI sight technology is coming online.

[StandingWave]

Transhumanism can only be attractive to those who consider themselves to be the 3D body in a physical world - to some degree.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj is purported to have said: "You cannot be anything you perceive."

Try as I might, I can't fault him.

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by StandingWave (here)
Transhumanism can only be attractive to those who consider themselves to be the 3D body in a physical world - to some degree.
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I have to disagree. I am convinced that my body is indeed a "meat suit", an avatar that I get to (or have to) pilot and maintain for the duration. I'm fully convinced that the discrete "me" microscopic piece of the One is soul-based/spirit-based, not physical.

Further, if we consider the gray zone toward transhumanism, the incremental steps, the relatively innocuous "fixes" to our 3D bodies - whether we are talking about getting a cut stitched-up or wearing glasses or a hearing aid, or whether we are talking about getting a new "wooden" leg (or the modern high-tech counterparts) - we are tacitly agreeing to some form of transhumanism. Some of us (I'm including myself) that scoffed at transhumanism might have to stop and readjust the thinking on this, are re-configure just where our own personal "do not cross" line in the sand is on this issue.

Glasses --> contact lenses --> corneal transplant --> corneal replacement with man-made lens material --> eye replacement with fully bionic capabilities far beyond the human eye ...

I'm just seeing that the progression towards transhumanism may be more of a slippery slope than I had first thought.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

Dennis, did you read the later Dune books where the Gholas had their eyes replaced with "metallic Tleilaxu eyes"?
Specifically the Duncan Idaho ghola, in one incarnation, had his eyes replaced in such manner by his masters.

It's pretty creepy stuff, but a lens might be really nice!
I'm only 31 and starting to have some ocular pressure on left side,
sucks to have eyes falling apart that early, yaa?



In MY ideal transhumanist world, lmao,
there would be a wireless interface,
just something that you put over your head, turn on,
and it transmits signals to the brain.

problem is hackers could uh, hack your headgear and the result would be fried bacon
I am sure these think tanks have really gone in circles working through implant vs. induction

The Bene Tleilax or Tleilaxu /tleɪˈlæksuː/[1] are an extremely xenophobic and isolationist society in Frank Herbert's science fiction Dune universe. Genetic manipulators who traffic in biological products such as artificial eyes, gholas, and "twisted" Mentats, the Tleilaxu are a major power in the Imperium

The Tleilaxu also provide artificial eyes for soldiers blinded by a stone burner.

and if that wasn't already creepy here's the Bene Tleilax logo from a video game based on Dune:



p.s. it feels like the LHC ripped a whole to the Duneverse, wink wink

[21g]

Without the Precautionary principle influencing Science and Medicine,
Faustian bargains are just impossible for mere mortals to resist, i reckon.

Maybe if we could have Billy Connolly chairing the World Health Organisation for a spell,
the precautionary principle might come back in to fashion. Worth a try

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pwFcGXpMmYw

[Tangri]

Also there is a night vision ability in humans.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post948141

[Omni]

Dennis to tell you the truth even the transhumanists do not really know what transhumanism fully entails. Nor does the standard Avalonian.

The amount of things curable with technology is profound. For example chakra technology can correct depression of any severity. It is not just a bad thing. After experiencing end game technologies I see them becoming quite popular eventually(like music enhancing mind control tech). But this will take some decades I think.

For the record, people are right to detect a sinister agenda about transhumanism. But that isn't the whole story.