imagine things like colour when they have never experienced such a thing?
2007-07-16 07:35:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Someone who has never experienced vision doesn't imagine or dream any colours. Their mental space (like ours) is occupied by things they tend to be familiar with - sounds, textures, feelings, and so on. Because the brain tends to re-assign areas that aren't in use, adults may not even have the brain-capacity to process images if one somehow got in there.
This doesn't mean that such people have no ideas about colour. After all, sighted people talk about colour all the time and language is sometimes saturated with it... even blind people may have colour associations though they've never experienced one themselves. So they may thing of hot or fast things as 'red', or fluffy things as 'white' - attaching words, at least, if not sensations.
2007-07-16 08:23:38 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have also thought of that many times. But if a person is born blind, I don't think they will miss seeing things because they have never experienced it. After all, you can't miss what you've never had (or done), right?.
It would be tough for a person that was born blind to imagine things, for example, if you tell a blind person a ball is round, he can't imagine it because he doesn't know what a ROUND object is, since he's never seen one. Who knows? maybe they don't imagine at all...
I hope this was helpful.
✭gabydt8✭
2007-07-16 07:50:08 · answer #2 · answered by Me 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They maybe create images in their head. they probaly develop such good touch that they can get a fairly good idea of what they look like. However colours I do not know.
2007-07-16 08:50:08 · answer #3 · answered by ads421 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"nihil intellectu prius in sensu". all information must pass thru one or a combination of the 5 senses. a blind person does not know color but he'll substitute texture or smell for it. another question to ponder is - "how does a blind, mute & deaf person learn?
2007-07-16 08:23:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not sure at all actually... i don't know if maybe thier mind is capable of conjuring up color even if it has never seen if before or if they don't see anything at all...i have often wondered about that...
2007-07-16 07:43:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there minds are like a blank palette, since they have never seen color, or ANYTHING in that matter, im sure they make up certain things in there head, its not like they hav anything to go by....but im sure they imagine everything they hear and smell as a certain picture in their minds, wut else can they do if they cant see it for themselves...yakno
2007-07-16 07:45:07 · answer #6 · answered by Kaidens Mommy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋