[HN Gopher] A man who started seeing the world backwards after b...
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       A man who started seeing the world backwards after being shot in
       the head
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-05-13 11:27 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | smusamashah wrote:
       | After reading the article I still don't understand what the world
       | looked like to him. What does it mean by backwards here?
        
         | benrapscallion wrote:
         | From another article: in addition to seeing everything
         | multiplied by three, the man also perceived colors "unstuck"
         | from objects.
         | 
         | Most unusual of all, though, Patient M saw everything as though
         | it had been inverted. Highlighting the case in his book,
         | Cerebral Dynamics, Rodriguez-Leal revealed how the war veteran
         | "found his abnormalities strange when, for example, he saw men
         | working upside down on a scaffold."
        
           | robofanatic wrote:
           | upside down makes sense but I can't imagine what backwards
           | would look like.
        
             | nequo wrote:
             | That's probably what it is. The Spanish original uses "al
             | reves," one meaning of which is upside down:
             | El paciente M: el hombre que empezo a ver el mundo al reves
             | tras un tiro en la cabeza en la Guerra Civil
             | 
             | https://elpais.com/ciencia/2023-05-10/el-paciente-m-el-
             | hombr...
        
         | robofanatic wrote:
         | Exactly. I can imagine upside down but wtf does backwards mean.
        
           | mc32 wrote:
           | Mirrored image, I guess? (Not backwards as in time, but
           | rather front is in back and back is in front). Very strange
           | choice of adjective.
        
         | cududa wrote:
         | Right? What a disappointing article. Was more just a little bit
         | about the doctor, a little bit about the war, a little bit
         | about spains history of neuroscience, and just the word
         | "backwards". The anecdote about him looking at his watch was
         | laughably unhelpful! Would've been the perfect example to
         | describe what he saw!
        
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