When you are BLIND, what do you see?

@Miklee02 I do that already, especially when it comes to relationships. 😕

@Convivial Homer, my favorite author, was blind, and he saw more than those who thought you just need eyes to see.

@helenS true... But remember, in those days it was all oral... Imagine Homer remembering the entirety of the illiad ..... It's just amazing

@helenS we can see light without light coming from the outside

@helenS Nietzsche had an interesting view of this in his 'Human, All Too Human'. He said to the effect that our mind forms these phosphenes into recognizable shapes in the absence of any object behind them, as we also incorporate external noises into our dreams. He liked this to primitive modes of thought, jumping to the first explanation to mind for any phenomenon, such as a thunderstorm representing angry gods.

@UpForItNow Didn't he find many similarities between those primitive modes of thought and apparently more advanced modes? I believe he called that "atavisms".