{"id":180,"date":"2008-09-19T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-09-19T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T23:01:00","slug":"avast-here-be-a-blindsightinator-for-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Avast! Here Be a Blindsightinator for Ye!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aye me hearties, be ye rememberin’ that time in Blindsight when Rorschach<\/i>, she be putting the sun in scurvy Szpindel’s eyes?<\/p>\n

“Argh, I be seein’ naught,” Szpindel be sayin’, his timbers a’shiver.<\/p>\n

“It be the EM fields,” James be barking. “That be how they signal. The briney deep, she be fulla words<\/i>, she be\u2014”<\/p>\n

“I be seeing naught<\/i>,” Szpindel be saying. “I be blind as the skipper with his patch on the wrong eye!”<\/p>\n

“Yar,” Bates be lassooing the capstain. “That be a pretty mess\u2014 blast those scurvy rads\u2026”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then when they be hiding below decks, Szpindel be putting words to it\u2026<\/p>\n

“Ya reached for it, ya scurvy dog. You near be catchin’ it. That not be blind chance.”<\/p>\n

“Argh, not blind chance. Blindsight<\/i>. Amanda? Where be ye, wench?”<\/p>\n

“Blindsight?”<\/p>\n

“Aye. Nothing be wrong with ye receptors,” he be saying. “Eye be working right enough, brain not be seein’ the signal. Brain stem, he be mutineer<\/i>. Arrgh.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now those buggering cabin-boys from Denmark, they be laying claim to me booty. They be putting out “Action-blindsight in two-legged landlubbers that be having compasses on their skulls, Arggh<\/a>“, and they be staking their claim last winter in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n

They be asking me to be hanging their guts from the crowsnest, they e’er be blackening my horizon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aye me hearties, be ye rememberin’ that time in Blindsight when Rorschach, she be putting the sun in scurvy Szpindel’s eyes? “Argh, I be seein’ naught,” Szpindel be sayin’, his timbers a’shiver. “It be the EM fields,” James be barking. “That be how they signal. The briney deep, she be fulla words, she be\u2014” “I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,9,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-blindsight","category-neuro","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}