In the valley of the
blind, the one-eyed man is king.
We
are no longer in The Age
of Information, or
even The Age
of Information Overload. We are now in The
Age of Information Comprehension The
skill of properly filtering, understanding, and validating Information
is
now more important than the Information itself. For
the first 300,000 years of human evolution, physical strength initially was
the primary skill necessary for survival. For the past 10,000
years, the survival of humans further evolved to where the use of knowledge
and information enabled humans to become dominant. However,
information is now so plentiful that the key to survival is no longer the
acquisition of information, but rather the ability to properly filter (or
weed-out) extraneous information. Knowing
what to ignore has now become as important as what you
know. Being able to clearly see and comprehend relevant
information has become the key to survival. While comprehension is an art, reading is a use of vision that was NOT
originally in our evolutionary makeup. Instead, we have taken our
binary perspective of "us versus them" or "food versus
predator" and refined that into a multiplicity of terms and labels to
give "airy nothingness a local habitation and a name" which we call
words. As you read these
words on your electronic display (or printed on paper) you likely fail to
realize that the same biology that lets you see words has NOT changed from
that of our "caveman ancestors" in over 5000 years, when sounds
began to be codified as symbols. The perceptual skills that let you see
rocks, trees, clouds, the sky, plants, and animals have evolved to let you
interpret the coded symbols we subconsciously compile into words and
concepts. Dyslexia is commonly
described as a comprehension disorder where a person miscues the identity or
sequence of letters, and or numbers, resulting in a reduced ability to read
and comprehend words. Dyslexia is normally viewed as a biological
condition resulting from neural pathways improperly transmitting information. Induced Dyslexia is a
comprehension disorder caused by misaligned and/or mis-prescribed glasses,
primarily progressive glasses. Progressive
glasses, unlike single-vision lenses, have a continuous range of
magnification in the lower half of the lens that allows the wearer to see
close objects from the graduated reduction in viewing magnification. To
see "clearly" the wearer moves their head to face the object, and
then raises or lowers the horizontal angle of their head to match the
magnification necessary to bring the object into focus. While progressive
glasses create specific areas of clear vision, at the same time they
inherently reduce peripheral vision. Comprehension, however, is also
dependent upon peripheral vision which progressive glasses inadvertently
minimize with the result being Induced Dyslexia. Progressive
lenses mask the loss of both peripheral cognition as well as the
stimulus overload from Static Visual Acuity tests. What facilitates
optimum visual clarity is a Dynamic Visual Acuity test. Static
vision tests deplete the response of the photoreceptors and inherently
overminus a refraction as well as providing a less precise and less
consistent refraction. The photoreceptor depletion response is
illustrated by the The Lilac Chaser Illusion. When
you fixate on the Plus (+) in the center of the ring of Pink
circles below, you will likely see the Pink circles seeming
to rotate around that Plus. But it is also likely
that you will see a single moving Green circle
which appears to spin around the plus. The
illusion of the Green circle
appearing is because of the depletion of the Red photoreceptor
refresh resulting in the inability to “see” the color Red and
creating the illusion (delusion) that the depleted
photoreceptor area is seeing a Green circle.
This
page is dedicated to helping people overcome that problem. Copyright© 2023
Dyop Vision Associates. All Rights Reserved.
(Originally composed in 2011) |