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   From: swimmer953@insightbb.com   
      
   "neo"  wrote in message   
   news:1177854287.816851.157380@y5g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...   
   >   
   > Steve Britt wrote:   
   >> "neo"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1177783530.322787.204940@h2g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...   
   >> >   
   >> > Dick Silk -- The Computer Tutor wrote:   
   >> >> "neo"  wrote    
   >> >> > Steve Britt wrote:   
   >> >> >> I'm totally blind and have been so all my life.   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> > Will you please explain if you are blind how can you see and type   
   >> >> > messages?   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Obviously, Neo, you've never heard of JAWS or other text-to-speech   
   >> >> software.   
   >> >> How do you think Professor Stephen Hawking manages to synthesize   
   >> >> speech   
   >> >> when   
   >> >> he can barely move more than twitching a muscle?   
   >> >> (Hint:  it's called "technology.")   
   >> >   
   >> > But hawking can see. He is not blind. And although such technology   
   >> > does exist, I never interacted with any blind person on usenet or   
   >> > internet.   
   >> >   
   >> > You will not believe me. Since last 3-4 days I was thinking what color   
   >> > a person born blind see. It can not be 'black' because black is also   
   >> > color.   
   >> >   
   >> > And just when I was thinking over this, I got reply from person who   
   >> > claim to be blind.   
   >> >   
   >> > If steve is really born blind, I would like to ask him some question I   
   >> > always had in my mind.   
   >> Go ahead and ask, Neo. I'll answer if I can. Keep in mind that I can only   
   >> offer a viewpoint from my own perspective; I can't speak for someone   
   >> else.   
   >   
   > When my eyes are closed or when there is no light, whatever appears   
   > before my both eyes, I call it black color. Do you have any sensation   
   > before your both eyes?   
   Normally, no. I say this because I have a little bit of light perception   
   left, but not enough to distinguish color. I can hold a flashlight up to my   
   right eye and turn it on and tell if it's working or not. I don't like to   
   hold the flashlight up there too long because the light gives me a horrible   
   headache. I had more light perception when I was three or four years old,   
   but even then I didn't sense colors or see enough to be able to travel. I   
   remember chasing shadows when I was outdoors, and being startled when a   
   camera would flash.   
   >   
   > Or is it so that your eyes are not different from skin on our body? I   
   > mean that we can't sense any color through skin on hands, legs etc.   
   >   
   > If you don't even experience black color, then you are living in that   
   > world which I can't imagine. Perhaps it is that state in which god or   
   > creator was living initially. Then he somehow imagined colors which we   
   > see now.   
   >   
   > It is one of the stape to reach to the source, creation of this   
   > universe.   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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