I am responding to the point of will a person blind on the WHAT part be able to recognize a chair if told about a brown chair placed in front of them.
I believe the Oliver Sacks book on Virgil address this. When Virgil ( a man blind for 47 years) gets his eyes restored, he doesn't recognize things. I recall a specific example where, after the eye patches are removed for the first time, he doesn't see the doctor's face or the nurses face... no, instead he sees blotches of color ... a mosaic of things. He claims to be unable to make sense out of the combinations and mixes that he SEES.
I conclude that he could not draw boundaries and group things. I take away the idea that he could get the visual representation... but could not construct a meaningful entity called face out of it.
Sai Go
I believe the Oliver Sacks book on Virgil address this. When Virgil ( a man blind for 47 years) gets his eyes restored, he doesn't recognize things. I recall a specific example where, after the eye patches are removed for the first time, he doesn't see the doctor's face or the nurses face... no, instead he sees blotches of color ... a mosaic of things. He claims to be unable to make sense out of the combinations and mixes that he SEES.
I conclude that he could not draw boundaries and group things. I take away the idea that he could get the visual representation... but could not construct a meaningful entity called face out of it.
Sai Go
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