Word: optic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ever since a piece of broken bottle severed an optic muscle during a childhood carnival celebration, Quadros has been walleyed...
...Picture. When an octopus is blinded by having its optic nerves cut, it still has the delicate touch organs in its eight arms, but it cannot distinguish the shape or size of an object that it touches. All that it can feel is local roughness. The human brain gathers reports from many touch sensors, puts them together and builds up a picture of the object touched. The octopus brain cannot do this, even when several arms are touching the same object. Apparently its central intelligence does not even know clearly where its arms are. In other words, while the octopus...