Is eyesight physical?

Question

I know this might sound crazy, but I'm doing a project for my AP lit class, and it's for King Lear by Shakespeare...And I wanted to know. I have to do an outline, and this is counted as my 2nd example for one of my techniques to explain my stance on this play.

maybe try to focus around the figurative means of eyesight, is that a psyhical attribute.

Answer 1

Yes, our eyes are classified as physical organs; the inner eyes or the mind eyes are not. I hope I did answer your question.Good luck with your project.

Answer 2

Dear Danyizzle: This question can be answered from different angles: For instance, eyesight in MY orientation is more perceptual than actual or physical. I see what I am preordained to see - which is set up by my personality and how I LIKE to view things. No two people see anything in the same exact manner. And, that is because of the "web" of their personality and how it thinks and PERCEIVES. Sight is subjective.

It can also be said that the STATE of our psyche produces what we will see and how we desire to see it! Like bitterness produces a different "sight " of life than a loving outlook.

Now, it can be taken to another level as well: Spiritual orientation teaches one to understand the unreality of this world and that nothing is REAL, but Eternity - our natural Home. Spiritual orientation teaches that physical eyes see nothing ! That everything "seen" is simply the spirit-mind, that we all truly are, seeing what it desires, according to the script it writes for the experience of an adventure in physical living ! All is actually inner visioning. Or, in other words, the physical is an illusionary experience of Spirit-Mind ; versus the intellect of the human mind, which believes this to be real !

Best regards, Lana

Answer 3

I believe the distinction you are after is the one which differentiates the physical (literal) from the metaphorical (figurative).

For example, a person can be literally blind. This means that the person has impaired vision (perhaps the blind person uses a seeing eye dog). This is the literal meaning of the term "blind" -- the person is physically unable to see. (Generally, when one discusses that which is "literal," it will relate to one of the five senses -- that is, you can smell, hear, taste, touch or see that which is referred to). One can "see" if a person is physically blind.

The other type of "blindness" refers to a metaphorical blindness. The person may appear perfectly normal (he can physically see), but if one states: "This person is blind!" the speaker means that this fellow is ignorant. A metaphorically blind person is unaware of what's taking place all around him (supremely ignorant). Thus a metaphor is in the realm of ideas; it is abstract (not literal or in the physical realm).

In the play, "King Lear" you have instances of both sorts of blindness. Gloucester is *literally* blinded in a horrific scene (he has his eyes put out). But it is King Lear who is metaphorically blind (Lear is ignorant on many differenet levels -- particularly as to his daughters). (Might also add that it's Lear response -- when he "sees the light" that makes this play truly great.)

Answer 4

-----Eyesight is not just physical like a camera. in that you do not see the light exactly as it arrives at the eye. The eye and the brain processes and changes the information the light brings in. You tend to see what you expect to see, what is on you mind right then, not what is actually there. The Moon looks larger on the horizion than overhead because the brain expects it to be larger and makes it larger. Of course, it is actually the same size on the horizion as overhead. If you are starving, words become food words even though they are not. No one sees the world as it actually is, but after it is filtered through our eyes, optic nerves, brains, biases, prejudices, hates, fears, loves, likes and dislikes. Shakespeare--no dummy--may have known we do not see what is actually there. Since his works are heavily into emotions, the above could well be relivant. -----Jim

Answer 5

Whether or now not your imaginative and prescient acquired worse, dressed in the improper prescription goes to deliver you complications. They will deliver you one more eye display at boot and challenge you the beautiful BCG's. You might not be legal to put on any civilian glasses till you conclude boot, or even then now not at a few MOS colleges.

Answer 6

Huh? I have no idea how to respond to this, but I can say eyesight is physical. I've had enough neuropsychology classes to know if you cut into your occipital lobe, you'd have serious trouble.

Answer 7

Yes, eyesight is physical. There are exercises you can do to improve or maintain your eyesight. Your detail doesn't seem to relate to your question.