Got it read now.
That was an interesting article. No need to wander so far afield to understand that even amongst ourselves, we have a difficult time in "knowing" what it is like to be someone else...even without sonar "sight" or a total lack of sight and the understood common concepts we know from having sight.
Then there are MERE words to try to explain our own concepts.
Wouldn't it be interesting to explain some of those concepts to a blind person, wo have no common frame-of-reference?
Kind like trying to talk sense to someone who cannot "see" without their eyes?
Perhaps, we can all be instructed to walk about a city street with blindfolds on, but with a guide to keep us from total annihilation, and get a "feel" for how different things can be.
Once, in an orientation for volunteer service at a youth shelter, we had such an exercise. The excercise required one in a group of four, to put on a blind-fold, while the other three were to instruct the blind-folded person across a room filled with obstacles.
Two of the non-blind-folded, were to try to misrepresent the truth and cause the blind-folded person to run into objects, while the last non-blind-folded person was to have the best interests of the blind-folded person and talk them through the obstacle course.
Very enlightening..
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