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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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Sure let’s pretend there are digital computer signals.
1s aren’t coming across the channel.
0s aren’t coming through either.
Nothing is being sent or received. So that display just doesn’t exist.
Now go back to the elbow idea. In the case where nothing is Sending/receiving, you’re going to see similar results as if you were sending/receiving with the elbow.
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