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Old 03-30-2017, 12:24 PM   #17
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
Default Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
There's an ambiguity here. On one hand, vision involves processes taking place in the eyes and the optic nerves that involve light. On the other hand, vision involves processes taking place in the occipital lobes that construct spatial imagery and don't directly involve light. Dark vision seems to be the latter without the former.
Hm. I realize there's some ambiguity. Dark vision means you can't see 'colors' in the dark. Does that mean colorblind, or does it also mean you cannot distinguish black from white? Because being able to distinguish anything specifically light-related in darkness is inherently supernatural.
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