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We see with our eyes and hear with our ears. At least that’s the conventional way to do things, but no one is ________(1) Neil Harbisson conventional. Neil is colorblind. Unlike many colorblind people, who are _______(2) to see just a few specific colors, like red or blue, Neil _______(3) see any colors ________(4) for grey. He has spent his whole life experiencing the world as only different shades of grey. That is until recently.
Neil now has the ability to see using his _______(5). He has implanted an antenna into his skull. It’s not attached to a headband or a hat. The antenna is _______(6) directly to the back of his skull at one end, bends over the top of his head, and has a light sensor on the other end. This light sensor _______(7) the colors and sends this information to a chip embedded in his skull. The chip _______(8) these colors into a sound. This allows Neil to experience each color as its own _______(9) sound. The red of a _______(10) light translates into one tone, while the green of a tree translates into a different tone. In this way, he has created a sound _______(11) for all the colors we see with our eyes.
Neil’s translation of color into sound has become so _______(12) that it also works in reverse. When he hears sounds, they translate into colors for him. When a telephone _______(13) or a glass breaks, he experiences these sounds as color. As an artist, this blending of sight and sound has allowed him to create unique _______(14) of art. Neil is a trained musician, and he creates sound portraits by translating the colors in paintings and photos _______(15) sounds. He also is a painter and has painted all kinds of sounds including human voices. He once painted a _______(16) by Martin Luther King and another by Hitler.
The definition of a cyborg is someone who is part human and part _______(17). Neil embraces his cyborg identity fully. He says, "I don’t feel like I’m _______(18) technology or wearing technology. I feel like I am technology. I don’t think of my antenna as a _______(19) – it’s a body part". Some people believe that humans have stopped _______(20), but perhaps people like Neil are on the cutting edge of a new type of evolution.
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Thanh Bình (theo Deepenglish)