From:	Penta cpenta@*****.com
Subject:	On Cybereyes
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:08:34 -0700

Paul J. Adam wrote:

> In article <37DBFAEC.11CF3A06@*****.com>, Penta <cpenta@*****.com>
> writes
> >On a lark, I brought up (and described as best I could) Shadowrun's
> >cybereyes. After I finished, he asked (Nothing here's verbatim. Been
> >over a month, and I just thought of it.): 'Now, besides essence, are
> >there any penalties to those? Such as, say, psychosis?' OK....one thing
> >he brought up that struck me: As great as stuff like cybereyes
> >sounds....*Anybody* who gets something like that, especially if they
> >were born blind, would likely go incurably and permenantly insane. No,
> >more than likely...certainly. The difference is too VAST.
>
> I don't buy it. By that token I should be mad (or even more insane than I
> am) from the jarring changes in vision I get from no correction (anything
> further away than arm's length and the world is a smeary blur), contacts (I
> can see!) and glasses (a startling amount of distortion around the edges of
> my vision).

The difference there isn't much. You're getting a "feed" into your eyes. It's
different going from NO sight at all (or maybe just light), to normal
sight...You're suddenly getting MILLIONS of new sensations, new images. Two
words: Information overload. On a MASSIVE scale.

> >Past a certain
> >age (like, 1 year old), you become wired to handle a certain situation,
> >like blindness. Psychologically, emotionally, and in a lot of cases,
> >physically. You would suddenly recieve a STREAM of new information, that
> >your mind and your body would be UNABLE, as adaptable as the human being
> >is, to adapt to. You'd get the info, but it'd be mishmash you couldn't
> >interpret or corroborate with anything else you're getting. Permenantly.
> >CONSTANTLY. 24/7. You'd go nuts.
>
> This is probably why you're - to all intents and purposes - blind for a week
> after getting cybereyes. Your brain has to adapt to the new-style visual
> input. Once you do, though, you're okay.

Maybe. I'd still think that, psychologically, there'd still be a HUGE impact.
It'd take MORE than a week. Maybe a week to get the PHYSICAL end of it in shape.
It'd take LONGER, a LOT longer, to get the psychological end in shape if you
didn't have sight before (or had bad sight).