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To: shades who wrote (57621)	4/6/2006 3:56:56 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) of 110194

Have you ever read the story, Flatland? The story describes in detail the world of 2- and 1-dimensional beings. It was written in the 1880s by a mathematician named Edwin Abbott, who lived concurrently with Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll). Anyway, the story has long been in the public domain, so naturally, it's online: eldritchpress.org My view regarding sensory perception is the same as Aristotle's: everything we learn, we learn through our senses. So, in a way, we can only think by first feeling. To describe "red" to someone blind since birth, I'd have to come up with the best auditory or tactile or olfactory analogies I could, and ask him to imagine what it's like to "see" them. And sometimes -rarely- people can actually rise above the mere particulars of their birth, and experience something as foreign to us as "red" is to a blind man. Didn't Raymond Carver write about this, the possibilities of the human spirit, the possibility for empathy when we dispose of words? associatedcontent.com

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