....Do you SEE with your 'EYES' or your 'MIND'....?

Question

Do your eyes perceive reality? or is it the mind?
Your eyes see and your mind does not........but your mind perceives and the eyes do not.

If you say both...
HOw do you explain a blind person?
OR
HOw about a person with brain damage?

Dragon:
Yes there is a physical mind, and there is a metaphysical mind...

Answer 1

You can see with both, but WHAT you see is different.

Not only that, both can be deceived, as well.

Answer 2

If you think seeing is vision, than yes you see with your eyes, but like you say perception and understanding of that what you are seeing is in the mind. This is where the Bible quote(I think it was Virgil) comes in. "You gave them eyes but they do not see". Because there are different definitions of the word both aspects are correct. It depends on what one you mean. If Homer was in deed one person than it is generally believed that he was a blind old man when he wrote his epics, and it is clear that he had a great vision and perspective of the world. See, even the word vision can be taken as that which we see through the eyes or the mind.
The following are two definitions of "see" from dictionary.com.

To perceive with the eyes; look at.

To perceive (things) mentally; discern; understand: to see the point of an argument.

I don't know about there being a physical mind, there are chemical reactions in the brain but a thought is an immaterial thing.

Answer 3

an image (information) enters the eye and then interpreted through the mind (processor). u essentially need both functioning properly to see. depending on which area of the brain is injured u may or may not still be able to see. if the part of the brain dedicated to processing vision is damaged then you're essentially blind. i think blind people see with their mind's eye; that's why they say that blind people have more awareness in all the other senses. all the information entering through the other senses creates a picture in the blind persons mind.

Answer 4

#1. What is reality?
#2. Both the eyes & mind are physical
#3. What does the "mind" perceive that the eyes do not?
#4. Conversely, what do the eyes "see?"

Are you missing something? I think that you are.

Answer 5

Life is connecting. Life is connected. Life connects. Devoid of these, Life ceases existing. That which is Life is connected. That which is connected is Life.

Since all things living or not have measures of sight, we could indeed say that the eyes do see inasmuch as rocks, stones, and minerals, too, have consciousness -- or a corresponding sight. And see these do.

In fact, many who are gifted in the mantic arts have been long known to "see" certain things by touching objects associated with certain time, space, energy or matter, or all of these. Theirs is indeed a knowingness or sight that is ubiquitous in any given plane, which is often called "second sight." More important, one has to ask, ' How was this sight availed that is would be conveyed but by the object from which the seer drew forth the information.

Not only does the object see but as well archives the knowledge. To do so is to see how

That something had to have seen it and archived it in its own pecular way in order that it could be transcribed to the "seer."

So, yes, sight is in all things: both the eyes see, and the mind sees.

Both the mind, a higher sight, and the eyes (on Earth), a lower sight, accord seeing and are both but corresponding expressions to the plane on which the perceived exists.

Sight is not unique to life as we know it on Earth. For any given plane comprised of the qualities of duality, there is a corresponding and aligned form of sight; and the corresponding body or form used on that plane does in fact see -- as well does it hear, feel, smell, taste, and see in accordance with the nature of that plane.

Above that, above duality, that is, all is knowingness, which quality is a corresponding "sight" of those orders and strata of planes above duality and as befits that world and ether and the laws of them.

Answer 6

You perceive with your mind. if you wear some 'special' glasses that turn everything you look at up-side down, it would only take your brain / mined 3 days to fix it and automatically change everything back, up-side right, even with the glasses on! Your mind interprets the information give from the eyes.
(cool question...)

Answer 7

the mind is like the CPU of a computer... it is where the information are processed... therefore, though you're right to say that it is the mind that perceives the information generated by the eyes... i would say that as humane judging other human beings i prefer to attend to the message passed by my heart to my mind rather than that passed on by my eyes...
but then technically, i see physical images through my eyes and as the information is like a message passed on to the mind to perceive what was seen...

Answer 8

What about blind people?
Animals?
Potatoes have eyes!
Trees don't have eyes or minds yet perceive the seasons......

My point is, is that human beings have yet to fully understand much of anything, let alone simplistic things like themselves, one another, other lifeforms on this planet, the environment etc etc etc. With all of our sight AND minds we've not come very far.

Answer 9

The eyes see the result of light refracted off of objects and the brain interprets it. We are also indoctrinated to believe certain things that we see as well. It is quite objective so it really doesn't matter. On a clear day everyone sees the sky as blue, unless you are blind or color blind.

Answer 10

Both. I can't answer for one who is blind or brain damaged, because I am neither. They each must use other senses or perceptions to compensate for what they lack....in addition to sight, we have 4 other physical senses to "see" with, and I don't know how many non physical senses Helen Keller "saw" and "heard" with her hands, it was up to her to learn how to process the world in a way that made sense to her ....

Answer 11

I takes both the eyes and the mind. The eyes are just the equipment, like the microscope, and the brain is the scientist who interprets what is seen.

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