Hmmm. Wonder if this will help clarify or just confuse the situation even more? I usually describe what I get from my eyes as being the same as a sighted person would get if they tried to see with their elbow. That's not black, it's just nothing, because their elbow doesn't function that way.
Help any? Scott On 12/15/12, Shadow Dragon <[email protected]> wrote: > You are wrong. Since we have no sensory perception of sight at all, black as > > a color does not even exist to us. I have one glass eye and one dead eye. > That means I have no working lenses in my head at this moment. That means > that I am physically incapable of seeing the color black. And yes, black is > > a color. If you have no light perception at all, if you have no sensory > perception of anything involving sight, that means you can not, for all > intents and purposes, see black. You do not see. You do not see black, you > do not see nothing. you may as well have been born without the sense of > sight, which is what I was. I was born with 4 senses, that means I do not > know what sight is. That means I have never seen a color, and I think > Charles is the same way. > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "dark" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 01:57 AM > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindness - Re: Announcement from > DraconisEntertainment > >> Hi charles. >> >> that lack of anything is! for a sighted person like seeing black, ust the >> >> same for a deaf person (assuming they don't have any buz or other tones in >> >> their ears), that they hear nothing and so hear silence. >> >> Just as however the silence in a series of sounds is only emphasized by >> the sounds around it however, the absense of light that is black only >> takes on meaning when it's seen in respect to other objects. That is why >> in one sense it is true tha t a totally blind person sees nothing but >> black, but in another sense it is utterly false because black, even though >> >> it is an absense only exists by a cntrast to the existant colours around >> it. >> >> Hope this makes sense. >> >> Beware the grue! >> >> Dark. >> ----- >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [email protected]. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [email protected]. >> > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
