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by mr_toad 134 days ago
> maybe in 100M years we'll get a 4th cone or rod. Probably from nuclear mutation...

There’s a Greg Egan short story (I think it’s ‘Seventh Sight’) where a bunch of formerly blind kids with cybernetic eyes hack the receptors to respond to wavelengths other than the traditional RGB. So perhaps it wont take millions of years.