Describing vision to the blind from birth
I was thinking how can you describe vision to somebody blind from birth.
I can describe it with a couple of analogies but these don't explain the experience of vision only its magnitude and greater significance than other senses.
Vision deals with surfaces & light bouncing off them. Light is made of trillions of tiny particles so small they are unfeelable.
Vision is vastly greater than touch.
Imagine if you could feel the surface of every object facing you for 20 miles in every direction all at once & that as the objects get further away they feel smaller & smaller until they are infinitely tiny & you can no longer feel them.
That is the magnitude of vision in comparison to touch and its not a bad analogy.
But vision is not experienced like touch at all. Touch has shapes the same as vision.
But vision has colors and light. Light is like temperature - hot and cold - light and dark.
Colors are like smells or tastes. But something completely different.
Thats the best way I can describe it.
I can describe it with a couple of analogies but these don't explain the experience of vision only its magnitude and greater significance than other senses.
Vision deals with surfaces & light bouncing off them. Light is made of trillions of tiny particles so small they are unfeelable.
Vision is vastly greater than touch.
Imagine if you could feel the surface of every object facing you for 20 miles in every direction all at once & that as the objects get further away they feel smaller & smaller until they are infinitely tiny & you can no longer feel them.
That is the magnitude of vision in comparison to touch and its not a bad analogy.
But vision is not experienced like touch at all. Touch has shapes the same as vision.
But vision has colors and light. Light is like temperature - hot and cold - light and dark.
Colors are like smells or tastes. But something completely different.
Thats the best way I can describe it.