Object Blindness
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Item #: SCP-4529

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures:

As every attempt at removing SCP-4529 has resulted in [DATA EXPUNGED], and that the section on how to safely remove SCP-4529 on SCP-4529-2 has not been decrypted by SCP-4529-4 and Foundation personnel, it is impossible to contain SCP-4529.

SCP-4529-2 is stored in a cleaned 4m by 2m by 0.5m box made up of a thick sheet of nonreflective glass and attached by an anodized aluminium frame to increase corrosion resistance. The box is to be hermetically sealed and filled with argon, with oxygen being removed to prevent it from degrading. Inside sensors monitor the environment in the box, and foundation personnel is to be alerted if conditions veer into dangerous degradation territory. Out of the copies made from it, one is to be given to the team of foundation archaeologists and scholars working with SCP-4529-4, one is to be rolled up and placed in SCP-4529-4’s bookshelf for him to analyse it should he want to in his own cell, and one is to be placed in a vault in Hall █, Site 17 with the same conditions for when the original is stolen or missing.

SCP-4529-4 is held in Hall █, Site 17, and he is held in a 3m by 3m by 3m room with a regular single-sized bed, a surveillance camera and other amenities for a regular human. He is allowed to socialize and converse with selected foundation personnel, spend time walking outside his cell with an MTF guard and can interact with other low-risk humanoid entities, if he continues to display good behaviour and cooperation with foundation personnel. He is also granted access to a room opposite to his cell, where he is to spend at least 8 hours on weekdays and 6 hours on weekends to work with a team of foundation archaeologists and scholars to decrypt SCP-4529-2.

If any SCP-4529-3 instances are found, they are to be immediately acquired into Foundation custody to aid in decrypting SCP-4529-2.

Should SCP-4529-2 be fully decrypted and a successful, safe, practical method to remove SCP-4529 has been discovered, all SCP-4529-3 instances, SCP-4529-4 included, are to be administered Class A amnestics and returned to their daily lives.

Description:

SCP-4529 refers to a part in the brain measuring roughly 0.5cm in length, width and height, and has a spherical shape (?). It is located in the middle of the optic chiasm, and intercepts electric signals from the optic nerves.

Upon receiving these signals, it alters them and sends the altered signals to the optic nerves as it leaves the optic chiasm, removing a certain electric signal, which upon research and experimentation is from a odd flask-shaped photoreceptors that function similarly with other photoreceptors, and are mostly found in the fovea centralis of the retina. So far, studies into the photoreceptor, hereby named SCP-4529-1 has all failed due to [REDACTED]. How SCP-4529 is able to remove these electric signals, still remains a mystery at the time of this writing.

As SCP-4529 attempts to remove electric signals generated from SCP-4529-1, it is theorised to be trying to prevent us from reconstructing a certain object that emits a certain wavelength which causes SCP-4529-1 to send an electric signal to the brain, as by blocking the electric signals that SCP-4529-1 sends, it prevents the brain’s primary visual cortex from receiving these signals, hence the vision that our brains construct (which is what we see) would not include objects that only causes SCP-4529-1 to release its electric signals.

SCP-4529 has a camouflaging property as well, in that when attempting to scan the brain thermally or by using MRI scans, it camouflages with the heat signature of surrounding brain cells and the brain activity of surrounding brain cells respectively. This causes SCP-4529 to be undetectable, and it was only when SCP-4529-2 was discovered in [REDACTED] and partially decrypted by a team of archaeologists and scholars that SCP-4529 came to light, with SCP-4529-2 being taken into Foundation custody.

Addendum:

SCP-4529-4 was found in [REDACTED], where he stated that he thinks he can understand some of the phrases in SCP-4529-2 when it was initially discovered, and decrypted a small part of SCP-4529-2. When the Foundation was alerted of SCP-4529-2 and took it into Foundation custody, they also took in SCP-4529-4 and the initial team that was decrypting SCP-4529-2. It was only through conversations with the initial team and SCP-4529-4 that SCP-4529-4 being an SCP-4529-3 instance was revealed.