top | item 45034624 (no title) spondylosaurus | 6 months ago Case studies suggest otherwise, at least for most people.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/10/to-see-and-not... discuss order hn newest nsonha|6 months ago don't have full article access but this part near the top makes it not applicable to the situation being discussed (blind from birth)> since early childhood Timshel|6 months ago In a way it strengthens it since even if he became blind later one, still:> It was, rather, the behavior of one mentally blind, or agnosic—able to see but not to decipher what he was seeing.And while he does get better, it does end up with:> But then, paradoxically, a release was given, in the form of a second and now final blindness—a blindness he received as a gift.Cf: https://web.archive.org/web/20240111185639/https://www.newyo... (older version does not trigger the paywall or at least can disable it while it's loading).
nsonha|6 months ago don't have full article access but this part near the top makes it not applicable to the situation being discussed (blind from birth)> since early childhood Timshel|6 months ago In a way it strengthens it since even if he became blind later one, still:> It was, rather, the behavior of one mentally blind, or agnosic—able to see but not to decipher what he was seeing.And while he does get better, it does end up with:> But then, paradoxically, a release was given, in the form of a second and now final blindness—a blindness he received as a gift.Cf: https://web.archive.org/web/20240111185639/https://www.newyo... (older version does not trigger the paywall or at least can disable it while it's loading).
Timshel|6 months ago In a way it strengthens it since even if he became blind later one, still:> It was, rather, the behavior of one mentally blind, or agnosic—able to see but not to decipher what he was seeing.And while he does get better, it does end up with:> But then, paradoxically, a release was given, in the form of a second and now final blindness—a blindness he received as a gift.Cf: https://web.archive.org/web/20240111185639/https://www.newyo... (older version does not trigger the paywall or at least can disable it while it's loading).
nsonha|6 months ago
> since early childhood
Timshel|6 months ago
> It was, rather, the behavior of one mentally blind, or agnosic—able to see but not to decipher what he was seeing.
And while he does get better, it does end up with:
> But then, paradoxically, a release was given, in the form of a second and now final blindness—a blindness he received as a gift.
Cf: https://web.archive.org/web/20240111185639/https://www.newyo... (older version does not trigger the paywall or at least can disable it while it's loading).