Comment on How do you describe color to a person who has always been blind?

morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

You can’t really describe colors to someone blind from birth. They just have no reference or mechanical ability to do so.

Someone below linked a Tommy Edison video (it’s a good watch, as is pretty much everything on his entire channel) where he talks about how people have tried to describe color to him all his life, but nothing they’ve said has ever actually made him see a color. He doesn’t see anything, he doesn’t have a working optic nerve.

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