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To someone who is born blind, how would you best discribe what seeing is?

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unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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It’s like knowing where everything in front of you is without having to touch or hear it. Sight works with your other senses too. For example, if a pillow is laying on the floor in an unfamiliar room I’ll know what shape it, how far away it is, and that if I pick it up it’ll feel soft. If the pillow was really gross looking I’d be able to tell without smelling it first.

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Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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that if I pick it up it’ll feel soft.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/01/marble-pillows-by-hakon-anton-fageras/

I really like these sculptures, but would hate them in person, because not soft.

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