2006-11-07 05:51:54 · 3 answers · asked by mailrick12 3 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Not as the rest of us can. But of course they have imaginations and a great deal of cultural information around them. We try to imagine what it is like for a dolphin to receive echo-location information when it clicks its way through the water looking for prey, or for a hammerhead shark to receive magnetic field information. I guess color is similar for a blind person - but easier to get a sense of because people talk about it.
Come to think of it, can sighted people conceive of what colors are? :-) Of ocurse we can point to two objects and say "this is pink and that is green", but what does it actually mean?
2006-11-11 04:07:53 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not, there is no frame of reference.
I mean you can tell them that reds are warm, blues are cold... but that's a poor substitute for seeing.
2006-11-07 18:59:11 · answer #2 · answered by wmm4786 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say no..Same way as deaf people cannot tell exactly what sounds are..
2006-11-07 13:53:39 · answer #3 · answered by Michael R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋