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Yeah, since it was supposed to work like that naturally the planet helped it activate.
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I like the theory that his mother attracted a disease. Seems most plausible.
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That's by far one of the most reasonable explainations. His mother contracted something while she was pregnant that hindered his developement.
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I don't know enough about how the brain works, but even if his brain was physically capable of seeing images through the eye, would he still have to learn how to interpret them?

Or is anything a brain knows 'hardwired' into it - as opposed to say a computer running a program - therefore the ability to interpret images through the eye could be generated in the brain, as well as a new pair of eyes.

BTW, would that have hurt Geordie? And did he have to remove his artificial eyes or did they pop out?
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The fact that he saw through the VISOR it would have helped his brain develope the optical area even if it was in a slightly different way.
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I don't know enough about how the brain works, but even if his brain was physically capable of seeing images through the eye, would he still have to learn how to interpret them?
Unless the problem was with his brain as well as his eyes, his brain would have had no problem interpreting the images. The eyes work by picking up the light reflecting off various things, and that's all that's transmitted to your brain: the different images it sees.
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But your brain just cant do things. It needs to work in them and practice.
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It's quite simple for the brain to detect images, the same way it's easy for it to detect when something is touching the body. The brain knows that a certain object is red, just as it knows that what's touching it is hot. It's a built-in reaction.
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The eye may pick up signals and send them to the brain but the brain doesnt really know what its seeing.
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It knows it's seeing colours. From that it figures out things like depth perception. From there, all it requires is sentience to be able to figure out what it's looking at actualy is.
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To a certain extent, the brain IS "hardwired" to coordinate with our "standard" sensory organs; my idea was the the metaphasic radiation "reactivated" or regrew those naturally tendencies along with the eyes themselves.
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