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tilthat: TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was recently solved. If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if given the ability, distinguish those objects by sight alone? In 2003 five people had their sight restored though surgery, and, no they could not.

nentuaby: I love when apparently Deep questions turn out to have clear empirical answers.

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[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There's another easy way to test this. Could you average person pick a picture of their own butthole out of a lineup?

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[-] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I feel certain that I read an article about this in the 90s. But nice that it’s confirmed.

[-] Torvum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

All this does is provide ammunition to the philosopher for some kind of perspective response.

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