I have been thinking of this for about 3 days:

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There is an extraordinary study by Marius Von Senden, called "Space and Sight." In it he examines the experiences of those born blind whose sight has recently been restored by cataract surgery. For them, vision is a radical new experience. They see the world as a field of colors. One girl was so moved by its dazzling brilliance that she kept her

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Oliver Sacks wrote about a similar case in his book "An Anthropologist On Mars".

A man, blind since three, had cataract surgery at 54. He had grown so accustomed to feeling things and "seeing" them with his mind's eye, that seeing things with his real eyes was almost useless. He kept feeling things to recognize them. Dr. Sacks said, "Even though he gained sight, he never gained vision." He couldn't even correlate things by feeling them with his hands while looking at them. It was as if that part of his brain, through disuse, had never really gained the ability to function.

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thanks Nathan...you interested in this as well?