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learning to see

Submitted by katherine on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 1:11am.

This week's discussion about vision and our perception of what we see vesus reality was really interesting to me.  Although our discussion was about how we are able to see, it made me think a lot about what it would be like if I wasn't able to see.  The ability to see is something that the vast majority of us are born with.  I don't know about anyone else, but I don't remember life as an infant.  Was I able to see as well then as I am now?  Or was it something that I had to learn and was perfected later?  Do we have to train ourselves to fill in the holes that technically should be in our vision?  If someone is born blind or with limited vision, are they able to somehow gain the ability to see later?

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