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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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shadow Dragon" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindness - Re:
AnnouncementfromDraconisEntertainment
Yeah, I guess I was leaving out someone who formerly had sight and went
blind. I know someone who's been blind since birth, yet can somehow
picture colors in her head. I was just talking about myself in particular
and what it sounded like Charles and Scott were talking about. Now that
I've read a couple more messages it sounds more like Scott is closer to my
type of blindness. But there definitely is a type of blindness where you
can not see anything, not even black. And I would think that would be
pretty much impossible to imagine for someone who can see colors and
possibly even imagine pictures, which I can't do either. The best I can do
is come up with a sort of tactal perception in my head if I've felt the
object before, and a ... well, basically a description if I haven't.
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From: "Clement Chou" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 10:21 AM
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindness - Re:
AnnouncementfromDraconisEntertainment
I think blind people are going to remain divided on this one. I
personally disagree with this... because you are only taking into account
someone who was born with no sight. What about someone who formerly had
sight? Again, I don't think we see black... though whether we do is
unknown to me, not knowing what black looks like. But again, that is the
closest description that allows sighted people physically to imagine what
we must see. It isn't exactly on the spot, but you're not going to get
any other explanation that is imaginable.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shadow Dragon" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindness - Re: Announcement
fromDraconisEntertainment
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.
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