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I’ve heard the elbow thing and the “what do you see behind you” thing a hundred times.
My thought process is that the optic nerve is essentially an HDMI cable. Whether it is connected to a computer that is turned off (a closed eye, if you will) or just completely disconnected (suppose you are missing an eye or something), the signal it sends to the monitor is the same: nothing.
The “monitor”, the visual cortex, as far as I understand, just constantly processes what the optic nerve sends. So if blind people don’t lack a visual cortex, and the signal that cortex receives from the optic nerve is identical to that of a regular person seeing zero light (assume closing your eyes means 0 light, disregarding light seeping through eyelids and whatnot), how can you say that blind people see nothing while we see black?
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I’m losing my eyesight thanks to not taking care of my diabetes. I’ve posted before on another blind related question.
You would think everything slowly starts to get darker and then blackness. That’s not it. Everything is kind of getting misty. If you’ve watched The Mist, that’s kind of like what’s happening to me but not exactly. (Smaller monsters, goddamn spiders everywhere!) But that’s how it is for me, just slowly sinking into a whitish, misty kinda deal.
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