[naturalist.atheist]

Originally Posted by peacegirl

This is a wonderful advance, but don't misconstrue what it actually does. Tongues do not see. They can provide information that allows a person to imagine what something looks like. Give it up NA. You're not going to win.

Actually they do see. The brain is a learning machine that is constantly rewiring itself. And if an entire sense shuts down but there is an equivalent afferent data stream, like from the tongue, then it rewires itself and reroutes the data from the touch area to the visual cortex where the brain interprets it as sight as if the information came from the eyes.

They see with their tongue.

But Lessans didn't know anything about this because he was an ignorant cheap bastard and only read cheap old books from the late 1800 and early 1900 hundreds, and of course knew nothing about what was being learned in his time let alone what was learned after he died.

When Lessans died the world did not loose its ability to make keen observations. Not that Lessans ever made any himself.