David-Diron t1_iy727oh wrote
Reply to comment by clitsdontexist in People who are blind from birth don’t know what darkness is because they have never seen light. by [deleted]
No, I think you have it reversed: they experience darkness, so they know what it is. It's light they can have no concept of. It's like your nerves constantly sending signals to your brain: you know what sensation is, so try to imagine no sensation whatsoever: you can't.
Loverboy21 t1_iy7ca61 wrote
No, bud. They don't have sight. Light, dark, whatever. They don't perceive it. At all.
Do you see darkness with your feet? Because your feet can see what a blind person's eyes can.
QutieLuvsQuails t1_iy7zsff wrote
You’re wrong. Many blind people can perceive light. If you take a blind person from a dim room and into a sunny one, they will notice. It’s just like deaf people, they don’t hear every single lyric and sound but they can definitely perceive music!
Aki_The_Ghost t1_iy8fhby wrote
I have had a case of fetal memory, where you still remember some of the times from your mother's womb. All of the imaginary descriptions of feeling warm and comfortable that I found about it on the internet were completely false in my eyes, because I only felt one thing : nothing. The concept of lift and temperature simply didn't exist, I couldn't know they existed. I just thought I was a bodyless entity looking at the void.
Loverboy21 t1_iy87le7 wrote
>t’s just like dead people, they don’t hear every single lyric and sound but they can definitely perceive music!
Yeah, no.
QutieLuvsQuails t1_iy8yaqj wrote
Um… YES. Thanks for your scholarly input. 🫠
A deaf person won the show “Dancing with the Stars” bc he could feel the music and dance to the beats.
I read his memoir. Nyle Demarco was born deaf. He could absolutely “perceive” music.
Loverboy21 t1_iy9ecu1 wrote
A. Check your spelling
B. People that are 100% blind cannot perceive light or dark.
C. Feeling vibrations is tactile, not auditory, so no, he didn't hear shit.
QutieLuvsQuails t1_iy9emgg wrote
I didn’t say they hear anything.
I said they can PERCEIVE music.
Loverboyyyyyy pay attention if you want to try and argue with me.
QutieLuvsQuails t1_iy9equb wrote
Not everyone is 100% blind and you don’t have to be 100% blind to be considered blind so yes, many legally blind people can still see light and dark.
Loverboy21 t1_iy9fgun wrote
The premise of the OP is not about partially sighted people. "Legally blind" covers a huge range of optical conditions. My father is legally blind, but his coke-bottle trifocals mean he can see as well as I can.
Which means, despite being legally blind, he aint blind.
And tactile perception has nothing to do with deafness at all, so I mean... irrelevant. If you can use a different sense to see with, lemme know.
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