I sit amazed...

[Ripheus27]

... that even mixing my green tea bag with a bag of dark berry tea still made my tea look like a cup of snow-yellower. I don't want to drink this in front of people.

ADDENDUM: Legitimating this thread with philosophical content in 3... 2... 1...

If you were blind your whole life up to a point, and only knew the shapes of cubes by touch, would you recognize a cube visually if you gained the ability to see and a cube were presented to you? (This is, I believe, known as Molyneaux's Problem.)

 

[KCfromNC]

This isn't a question for philosophy, it's a question for neuroscience. I guess the answer depends on the nature of the blindness. For interesting examples, see Blindsight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 

[Dave Ellis]

Actually, I've read up on this sort of thing.... apparently it's almost 100% if you take someone who was born totally blind, and restore sight to them, they are not initially capable of identifying cubes, circles or other basic shapes.

In fact, in many cases depth perception doesn't exist, and they have trouble identifying faces.

It makes sense as their brains never learned to do this while young. In many cases things improve, but it's kind of interesting to see how even things like senses to some extent are a learned skill.

 

[toolmanjantzi]

Ok, the ultimate question is......how does a blind person dream of things they have never seen. If they dream, are they also blind, and only hear voices, smell roses, and talk?

 

[Sectio Aurea]

If you were blind your whole life up to a point, and only knew the shapes of cubes by touch, would you recognize a cube visually if you gained the ability to see and a cube were presented to you? (This is, I believe, known as Molyneaux's Problem.)

I doubt I would recognize the cube with any degree of certainty so I'll say no.