The best I can do is: It like having a million hands that can touch out miles infront of you.
2007-02-20 11:06:44 · 11 answers · asked by Tracy 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
you have me stumped.......i would say, imagine a book that gives you every answer to any question you may have..........and of course the book would be in braille.............
2007-02-20 11:14:41 · answer #1 · answered by i pack a 44 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many years ago I worked in an outdoor museum where a high-wheeler bicycle was on display. A woman escorting a blind man asked if they could go behind the ropes so he could feel the bicycle. I watched as he physically examined the vehicle--I watched with tears in my eyes and chills on my spine. I was so grateful that I could allow him to do this. This man was lucky to be able to see with his hands and try to comprehend the vehicle structure.
If I worked at that museum today, I could not let him do this. All of their displays are behind glass.
2007-02-20 11:13:28 · answer #2 · answered by seamstress 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really had too think about this.All other senses are hightened in blind people, smell, sound and touch, so I'd tell him that what he touches to see,with his hands,your eyes tell you what it is with out touching it.Your eyes let you know the size , shape and color and how far away it is.You can see a car coming before he can hear one.
I'd also tell him ;to see ,is the same as he "see's", in his dreams, Because, I'm sure blind people see in their dreams just like we do.Only we're not dreaming.
2007-02-20 12:41:28 · answer #3 · answered by Amy Beware 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the brain uses shades and colors in symbolic calculations, so the million symbols approach might be better than the million hands one.
2007-02-20 11:30:25 · answer #4 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seeing is knowing the shape of a thing without having to touch it.
Color is knowing the mood of a thing, without having to hear it.
How's that?
2007-02-20 21:28:16 · answer #5 · answered by Linda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be extremely difficult. How does one explain" blue" to someone who has never seen it. Compare it to a texture, to smell, to a sound, to a taste? Each thing would need to be explained that way.
2007-02-20 11:11:03 · answer #6 · answered by Mary G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To see, is to feel and caress with your eyes the shape and color of all things that exist in the world around you.
2007-02-20 11:15:42 · answer #7 · answered by markos m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I imagine it would be like using your will to move the hair on your head.
2007-02-20 15:36:14 · answer #8 · answered by dilisk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds good to me.
2007-02-20 11:09:34 · answer #9 · answered by Socrates 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I could. You can't understand a sense you've never had.
2007-02-20 11:12:25 · answer #10 · answered by trypanophobic34 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋