英国色盲艺术家大脑植入芯片“听”颜色_BEC初级作文

英国色盲艺术家大脑植入芯片“听”颜色

这一想法源自2003年，尼尔在达林顿艺术学院听了一场科学家亚当·蒙坦顿有关自动控制学的讲座。然后这两个人就合作创造了这一装置，后来尼尔通过记忆不同频率来辨识颜色。所以，尽管他还是不能看见颜色，但他可以“听见”并辨识出来。

Neil, who was born with achromatopsia (a rare condition that allows him to see only black or white), said during a talk in 2017: “For me the sky is always grey, flowers are always grey and television is black and white. But since the age of 21 instead of seeing color I can hear color. I started to have favorite colors and I started to dream in color.”

尼尔是全色盲（只能看见黑色和白色），他在2017年的一次座谈会上说：“对我来说，天空是灰的，花儿是灰的，电视是黑白的。但是从21岁起，我可以听见颜色了，我开始有了自己最喜欢的颜色，并且我做的梦也有了色彩。”

At this point, Neil felt that the software and his brain had united, because in his dreams it wasn’t the software creating the electronic sounds, but his brain. So he decided to have the device implanted permanently.

这时候，尼尔感觉芯片软件和自己的大脑已经联为一体，因为在梦里的颜色并不是电子眼产生的声音，而是源自他自己的大脑，所以他决定永久植入这块芯片。

The cyborg antenna, or ‘eyeborg’ that Neil now wears is like a long tube with an audio input on one end that is implanted at back of his skull. At the other end is a camera that ‘sees’ the colors before they are transformed to sound. Because every color has a different vibration, Neil is able to distinguish between different images, paintings and faces (each of them has a distinct sound).