03-30-2017, 11:07 AM | #11 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision
Night Vision is what cats and owls have. Dark Vision is what vampires have. Its simple actually, it was never a problem to me
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03-30-2017, 11:16 AM | #12 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision
Dark vision is vision without light, even though vision is defined as the detection of light. That's why some readers initially suffer confusion, I think.
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03-30-2017, 11:41 AM | #13 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision
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.
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03-30-2017, 11:47 AM | #14 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision
I'm surprised infra vision isn't mentioned
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03-30-2017, 11:52 AM | #15 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision
Infravision, Ultravision and Hyperspectral Vision seem to be a somewhat different group.
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03-30-2017, 11:57 AM | #16 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision
Ah. I've found it very common for Infra vision to exist in same categories as low light vision and dark vision. Also very common to see low light vision and infra vision as alternate a b ilities
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03-30-2017, 12:24 PM | #17 | |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision
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03-30-2017, 12:41 PM | #18 | |
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It's supernatural, so most such subtleties will have to be setting dependent anyway, I guess.
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Since we don't see IR anyway, we tend to lump it all together. But there are real differences in what can emit different EM bands, and what kinds of physiological systems can detect them.
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03-30-2017, 01:23 PM | #20 |
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Re: [Basic] Advantage of the Week (#38): Dark Vision, Night Vision
Does sonar use the occipital lobes? Or does it use the acoustic processing systems in the temporal lobes?
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