On March 01 2014 02:47 Najda wrote: Relevant, I've heard described what a blind person "sees" is not just pitch black. They don't have any vision input reaching their brain so it is the equivalent of, say, what you can see out of your elbow, there is just nothing.
Of course there are other types of blindness or partial visual impairment, but that is different.
They may "see" nothing but they can still spatially map their surroundings. Instead of using vision to do this, they are forced to rely on their hearing and sense of touch.
We can sort of prove this. The visual cortex in the brain is normally the first stop for all information taken in from the optical nerve. In a blind person, their visual cortex is still used when reading braille and other activities that require them to have a spatial sense of their surroundings. So the same area of the brain that processes information received from my eye is also able to reconstruct a blind person's enviroments through their other senses.
Obviously they cannot "see" black, but neither can you or I. Perceiving the color black is simply noticing that an object is not reflecting any light onto your eyes. So no, they cannot perceive the lack of a reflection because there's no input at all to report it. It's not a straightforward comparison.
Relevant article on how to effectively recreate the sensation of blindness: "http://mindhacks.com/2012/05/18/bbc-future-column-why-your-brain-loves-to-tune-out/"
On February 25 2014 03:24 Dogfoodboy16 wrote: Would you rather kiss a really ugly girl or a really cute boy?
Depends on your gender .Unless you are not straight then there is no reason to pick a cute boy over a girl(even the really ugly ones). Vice versa if you are a girl.
Everyone's a little bit gay. Nobody's 100% straight.
On February 25 2014 03:24 Dogfoodboy16 wrote: Would you rather kiss a really ugly girl or a really cute boy?
Depends on your gender .Unless you are not straight then there is no reason to pick a cute boy over a girl(even the really ugly ones). Vice versa if you are a girl.
Everyone's a little bit gay. Nobody's 100% straight.
On March 02 2014 16:02 billy5000 wrote: To all the butchers out there: How difficult is it to slice a sirloin into very thin slices using the equipment?
Asked my butcher to do it for me and he didn't really seem pleased. Wasn't sure if it's because of the task or his mood.
I'm not a butcher and can do it with a knife. Min wage employs at Arby's regularly do it with a machine so there's a good chance you butcher was just in a bad move
On February 25 2014 03:24 Dogfoodboy16 wrote: Would you rather kiss a really ugly girl or a really cute boy?
Depends on your gender .Unless you are not straight then there is no reason to pick a cute boy over a girl(even the really ugly ones). Vice versa if you are a girl.
Everyone's a little bit gay. Nobody's 100% straight.
On February 25 2014 03:24 Dogfoodboy16 wrote: Would you rather kiss a really ugly girl or a really cute boy?
Depends on your gender .Unless you are not straight then there is no reason to pick a cute boy over a girl(even the really ugly ones). Vice versa if you are a girl.
Everyone's a little bit gay. Nobody's 100% straight.
No way.
Was there any study that proves this ?
It's Freud's innate bisexuality. The argument he makes is that if you don't think you're even 1% gay or 1% straight, you're repressing something. I believe in this one.
How the hell can you empirically prove someone is gay when we don't even know what causes it?
EPT
