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- Keyser Soze - 10-15-2002 kiss my hips - virgingrrl - 10-15-2002 money fucker i less than 3 you. keyser, only if you lick mine. - Hybrid - 10-15-2002 :-( talk about a mood swing ![]() - virgingrrl - 10-15-2002 what? what? what? what? what? what? - Hybrid - 10-15-2002 :disappointed: i stopped when you said to - Keyser Soze - 10-15-2002 VGCold - virgingrrl - 10-15-2002 no vg's warm Edited By virgingrrl on 1034709360 - Maynard - 10-15-2002 Quote:no vg's warmNot unless you u..... never mind. - GonzoStyle - 10-15-2002 VG has a 3 inch clit, there's enough for everyone. - IrishAlkey - 10-15-2002 A three inch dick isn't enough for anyone. She's getting off too easy. - virgingrrl - 10-15-2002 it is not 3 inches. not unless i what maymay what? eh? - Sir O - 10-15-2002 John Locke (1632 - 1704) once received a letter from Molyneux in which was posed the now celebrated question: "Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal. Suppose then the cube and sphere were placed on a table, and the blind man made to see: query, whether by his sight, before he touched them, could he distinguish and tell which was the globe and which the cube? . . . . The acute and judicious proposer answers: not. For though he has obtained the experience of how the globe, how the cube, affects his touch, yet he has not yet attained the experience that what affects his touch so or so, must affect his sight, so or so. . . ." In the Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690, (Book 11, Chapt. 9, Sect. 8) Locke comments as follows: - " I agree with this thinking gentleman, whom I am proud to call my friend, in his answer to this his problem; and am of the opinion that the blind man, at first, would not be able with certainty to say which was the globe, which the cube. . . ." Bishop George Berkeley, (1685 - 1753) in his A New Theory of Vision (1709) distinguished carefully between sight and touch as ways of perceiving and knowing, and took the hypothetical case of recovery from blindness in the following way: - "In order to disentangle our minds from whatever prejudices we may entertain with the relation to the subject in hand nothing is more apposite than the taking into our thoughts the case of one born blind, and afterwards, when grown up, made to see. And though perhaps it may not be an easy task to divest ourselves entirely of the experience received from sight so as to be able to put our thoughts exactly in the posture as such a one’s: we must nevertheless, as far as possible, endeavour to frame true conceptions of what might reasonably be supposed to pass in his mind" (op. cit. Sect. XCII). Berkeley goes on to say that we should expect such a man not to know whether anything was "high or low, erect or inverted . . . for the objects to which he had hitherto used to apply the terms up and down, high and low, were such only as affected or were some way perceived by his touch; but the proper objects of vision make a new set of ideas, perfectly distinct and different from the former, and which can in no sort make themselves perceived by touch" (op. cit. XCV). He goes on to say that it would take some time to learn to associate the two. ----------------- More than 300 years ago, in a famous letter to the philosopher John Locke, the Irish thinker William Molyneux anticipated what May sees. A blind man who is suddenly given vision, Molyneux suggested, wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a cube and a sphere. Sight is one kind of perception and touch another; they can be linked only through experience. The most dramatic proof of this theory came in an experiment published in 1963 by Richard Held and Alan Hein, who were then professors at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Held and Hein raised two kittens in total darkness. But every so often they would place the kittens in separate baskets, suspend the baskets from a single circular track, and turn on the lights. Both baskets hung just above the floor, but one had holes for the kitten's legs to poke through; the other did not. The free-limbed cat ran in circles on the floor, pulling the other basket along behind it; the other kitten had no choice but to sit and watch. While the active kitten learned to see normally, the passive kitten stayed effectively blind: Its eyes could see, but its brain never learned to interpret the sensory input. - Maynard - 10-15-2002 I love you Sir O. You proved me right. :thumbs-up: Fuck VG right in her virgin ass. - LyricalGomez - 10-15-2002 You're no fun - HedCold - 10-15-2002 Quote:at first, would not be able with certainty to say which was the globe, which the cube. . . ."well he wouldn't be certain, but he could make an educated guess, which i think was galts point - virgingrrl - 10-15-2002 hey look! its the paper that's in my car! hee hee - GonzoStyle - 10-15-2002 Quote:A three inch dick isn't enough for anyone. That's not true is it? :-( - Hybrid - 10-15-2002 dont worry gonzo. you're still A-ok in my book :thumbs-up: - GonzoStyle - 10-15-2002 But a 3 inch penis is ok, right? - Sir O - 10-15-2002 But a educated guess, by definition, implies a level of uncertainty. All eyesight is, is our brain interpreting light reflecting off various surfaces. A blind man who has just gained the ability to see would not yet know how to interpret what he sees, because his brain had never had the ability to process the information before. Just the same way all of us know that 2+2=4, but to someone who has no idea what numbers are, they'd have no clue. |