i made some progress on the update function. i'm at a debugging point but the bugs still overlap algorithmic logic.
interesting concept: "can completely blind people become surgeons?" this is a politically charged question in some spaces, notably some AI language models. i'm using bing search right now to feel less scared of oppressive profiling, and it gives copilot ai answers that are somehow undisabled (i thought i disabled them). copilot gave to this search an answer that basically said, yes completely blind people are allowed to do this although it is rare and difficult[4 citations]. however excellent vision is crucial for surgery[1 citation].
i am thinking that basically if you are blind and want to be a surgeon, you will have a lot of human prejudice to contend with because nobody understands how you can measure and comprehend what you are doing in a skilled manner because they use their vision to do so. a blind person would use other senses and tools to get feedback on what they are doing, and we would require them to become skilled enough at that to never harm somebody on a surgery table. --.. {so the blind person would be using sound, memory, spacial precision, tools and other people at the table to know this --- they would become aware of sounds that others are not, and would use more backup checks
i left out temperature here, i've found small temperature gradients can give a ton of information while blindfolded i imagine there are other senses i don't know about too, since i've practiced being blindfolded and blind people certainly still notice things i don't
(of course, as a surgical patient, nobody would want a blind surgeon T_T unless they were blind themselves and had a shared understanding of how that can give you reliable information on the world