Re:Implants for healthy people and additional eyes (Score 1)

Why stick to imitating the eye and its limited peripheral vision? Am I the only one thinking of an eye helmet?

I doubt you are, but all that more eyes will acomplish is to make it more difficult to see. The brain takes the seperate data from our two eyes and lays one image over the other. This gives us depth perception when both eyes are looking at the same thing but when they're not we have double vision. Try holding your hand 2" (or 5 cm if you prefer) directly in front of one eye and you'll see what I mean. Adding more eyes around the sides of the head, either through a helmet or implants, will make focusing more difficlut and add too much information.

I suppose what really troubles me about this idea is the fact that the parent proposes expanding one sense to do the job of another. Our ears are already omni-directional. Our ears tell us what's going on around us and that's how our brain deciedes where to look. I suppose the moral here is don't try to see more, just learn to listen better. /soapbox