Good analogy Charles... I like the heat one a lot. But whether you hand can
sense heat or not, the heat is still there, right? In our case, sure your
brain wouldn't recognize it as blackness, but it could very well be that's
what you're seeing, though you don't know it. Not saying that it is what it
is, saying it possibly could be. Takin the heat analogy a bit further, if
you were to touch the stove, you'd probably burn your hand. Your hand
wouldn't recognize it as a feeling, no, but the burn still hapened... and
probably would leave a mark which would hurt on any other person's hand. But
because your hand has no sensory nerves on it, you wouldn't be able to tell
that it was supposed to hurt. In the same way, how do we know that the fact
that we see nothing isn't us seeing black, but not knowing what it is?
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From: "Charles Rivard" <wee1s...@fidnet.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindness - Re:
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I would think that if you used to be able to see, and you now get no
signals from your eyes, your brain would say, "You are seeing blackness."
If you have never seen, your brain does not know blackness and so you don't
identify it. If your eyes could see something that you don't recognize as
blackness, you would still see that something is there, but not know what
it is. Position your hand above a hot stove? Fell heat. Position a hand
that has no sensory nerves above that same stove? You do not feel a lack
of heat due to not having nerves. Instead, there is absolutely no sense of
heat, cold, or in between. There is nothing whatsoever. The same with my
eyes that have never seen. They don't see nothingness, they see nothing.
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