SEEING
The lights are off, visibility zero, you here a noise, you get up and fall over your table; now imagine that experience your whole life by being blind. There is more then what meets the eye when we refer to sight. The eye can be surgically trained to see but the mind can not identify the object if it has never been seen. When blind patients feel an object they know what it is because that is how the brain has been trained to identify objects. Those who are deprived of sight and had it surgically restored, still will never regain full sight because of the time and experience both the eye and brain must have, working together to see and separate images. The brain must go through the same training it went through by learning to identify objects by touch. When a person has not been able to see from birth and has the privilege of sight after she/he has gone through the early “learning” years of it’s life, the brain struggles because of it’s drastic transitional change. Vision is a combination of effort, time, and experience along with the physical eye itself. One of the main combinations that creates the aspects of vision for the human eye, is effort. The average human, which has been able to se
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Approximate Word count = 1064
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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