• deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Sure. It all kinda has to connect to the brain somehow, or our naturally occurring meat suit wouldn’t work either, lol. But i think your proposed “adapters” may have to do more postprocessing of the signal for some senses more than for others:

    In vertebrates, the CNS also includes the retina and the optic nerve (cranial nerve II), as well as the olfactory nerves and olfactory epithelium. As parts of the CNS, they connect directly to brain neurons without intermediate ganglia.

    Which kinda makes me think we should put a nose on the image in the post, while we’re at it.

    But i’m also just reporting back from a Wikipedia rabbit-hole. I don’t really know much at all about anatomy.