[optacon-l] Re: Sight Versus Blindness
- From: "Carolyn Arnold" <4carolyna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:50:42 -0400
If any of you who did have sight, remember, if you went to a movie in the
daytime and came out while it was still light, how that light would be, like
!wow!? Maybe that's how it would be.
GIFT (God is forever true),
Carolyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "C. Pond" <cpond@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 8:15 PM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Sight Versus Blindness
> Dr. Oliver Sacks also wrote of Virgil, a man who received his sight, and
> how
> he, like others, was baffled by it all. I knew of a guy named Nick from
> England who received his sight after having had none for his life.
> Eventually, he committed suicide because of the static and noise (as he
> described it) in his brain/mind. I knew another guy bnamed Wyl from
> Toronto who received his sight at about age 7 or 8, and the first thing he
> felt was physical pain as in light being much too bright. This topic has
> both baffled and fascinated philosophers for centuries, and the question
> of
> would a blind person "see things" and know them in the same way as does a
> sighted person, and one who received sight. In the Bible, our Lord and
> Saviour Jesus healed a blind man, but he had to take two passes at it.
> One
> wonders if the first pass was to heal the sensory mechanism, because the
> man
> said he saw people but they looked like treees walking about, and the
> second
> pass was to heal the man's visual psychological and sight-oriented
> comprehension. Remember that visualizing is not the same as seeing.
>
> Now then, what does this topic albeit interesting have to do with the
> optacon, listers?
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:21 PM
> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: Sight Versus Blindness
>
> I think a lot of the research concludes that if one lost their sight
> before
> aged 5 or so, then the adjustment is almost impossible. Short of
> miraculous
> intervention, the image processing and interpretative correlations have
> been
> formed by the optic nerve and visual cortex by that time.
> This is butressed by Mike May's experiences when he had his vision
> restored
> in his mid-forties. He had lost it around age 4 in a chemical mishap.
> The
> last chapter of his book "Crashing Through" written by Robert Kurson
> discusses this in a lot more depth. What I recall is the hand-eye
> coordination stuff like playing catch was good, but you couldn't recognize
> what would appear to be basic stuff like the gender of a person walking
> down
> the street.
>
> I'm really anticipating a self-driving car more than a restoration of my
> vision.
>
> Now, people who lost their sight even after the age of ten may likely have
> much different experiences. Some of the vision restoration done with a
> bionic eye in the Netherlands appears to have found better results with
> people who lst their vision later in life.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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