blind spot.

i was on the bus this morning
going to school
and i was doing my reading for cogs tomorrow
it was about vision
the user illusion
and how we think we see everything
but we barely see anything
anyways
they were doing the classic experiment
of how
there's a blind spot
and they were saying the usual:
how there's a blind spot because there's no input at a certain area of the retina
okay, no problem.
and then they were saying
how our vision system "fills" this gap in
how we don't "see" the gap
how we don't see a black spot
but why would it be a black spot?

and i started thinking about blind people.
they don't "see" the way we would "see" if we closed our eyes
they don't see darkness
they don't see anything
it's.. nothing
in a social context, we teach them that this is darkness, this is black
but it's not.
it's such a natural way of thinking
that they would see black
but they dont!
can you believe it?
i can't even imagine what they see, or dont see.
it's nothing
they dont have the sense
to see.
it's something so completely different.

it's a world
so beyond me.

think about it.