In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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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 ability to properly filter, understand, and validate
Information is now more
important than the Information itself. For
the first 300,000 has been usurped by the use of knowledge and
information. However, information is
now so plentiful that the key to survival is no longer the acquisition of
information years of human evolution, physical strength was the primary skill
necessary for survival. For the past
10,000 years, the need for physical strength but rather the ability to
properly filter (or weed-out) extraneous information. Knowing
what to ignore has becoming 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 that "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 biology that lets you see words has NOT changed from that of our "caveman ancestors" in over 5000 years. The perceptual skill that lets you see rocks, trees, clouds, the sky, plants, and animals has 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 being 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 lost 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 provide 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
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.
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