Kossimer

This isn't an investment with an anticipated return, is it? What were you convincing them of exactly?

I remember as an elementary schooler I was given a presentation by a guest blind high school piano player who shared with us what it was like to be blind and answered our questions. I remember someone asking him if all he could see was black, and he responded by asking "what can you see out of your elbow? I don't see black because I can't see." I can totally accept that answer, but I also wonder how he could know he doesn't see black without some sort of reference. To someone who has never seen any color but black, that person would definitely define what they are seeing as "nothing" because that's the best way to describe that color, and it's what people with sight see in the absence of all light. As such, many people don't define black as a color even though it appears like one, because color requires light. When we close our eyes, we don't stop seeing, we see black, but that's close enough to nothing to be entirely undistracting so we can sleep. So if there's one thing a blind person could see, it would be the one thing that human eyes are forced to see without any light or color to help them form images with.

I think it's possible for a person's eyes to be sufficiently non-functioning from birth to not see anything at all, or to only see black, and to define their experience of sight as "nothing." I just wonder if it is possible to parse this difference, not that there would be much of a difference to that person.

Learning about the very real millions of people that literally lack an imagination is one of the most mind blowing facts to find out about humans that you would think should be common knowledge given the mind-blowing-ness of it.

Is containing an artificial intelligence, that once required a 3 ton chassis to operate, within a potato really plausible?

Does gravity put up a good fight?