Blindness In The Mind's Eye By Oliver Sacks

Does your brain represent you? If one’s brain has being taken out from one’s body and being graft to another body. The brain is unscathed and active under careful measurements. It is the same brain with the same function, same memory. Can that body with the brain be define as the same person? In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver sacks explores how human brains reallocated sensory system to recall and recreate the world after eyesight has being deprived. When the real world is no longer visible. Two categories of blindness appear: deep blindness and visual blindness. If someone is deep blindness, he or she went completed blind. His or her brain cannot create images for one to “see”. Visual blindness, however, allows the person to “see” hypothetically

The brain can do more than what people thought it can do. The brain reallocates in order to accommodate sensory trauma. All other sensory, includes hearing, touch, feeling, smell, taste and even intuition, will “transformed” into visual images. Blind people seems to be unable to “see” things, however, in Zoltan’s mind, “he had been able to construct a virtual visual world that seemed as real and intense to him as the perceptual one he had lost (332). He has not been limited by losing his sight, on the contrast, he felt he has expanded a new way of thinking. He could touch and feel the shapes and contours, which enable him to delineate an image in his mind. Also, he could feel height, temperature, humidity and texture which can provide him a better sense of the surrounding environment and the feature of the thing he is touching than simple look at it. Although, blind people may not read, but they can still gain information by hearing from others. Descriptions through other’s languages not only provide a better sense understanding of things he need to see and others’ mind. The oral languages “transformed” into “eyes” for blind people to “see” not only physical things, but also for people’s mind. Without visually seeing things, imagination in brains help

Images in people’s brain would be something that is being reorganized based on their memories. Moreover, the imaginations they have is also be relevant to their earlier experiences. “[Dennis] see myself visually-but it is as I last law [himself], when [Dennis] was thirteen……[Dennis] see the Braille notes visually-they are visual images, not tactile” (336). The person went blindness after the ago thirteen, therefore he “see” himself base on his latest visual memory. The changes of brain in order to deal with challenges of losing sight does not create some fancy images in his mind with no evidence or reasons. The brain does not go too far from the real world, but organize inputs and create an images in people’s mind based on those inputs. Inputs includes one’s experience, memory and sensory inputs such as touch. Dennis “see notes visually” based on inputs from touching, then the brain transforms feelings into visual images. Another person who become blind at the age of fifteen wrote “I still ‘see’ objects in front of me. As I typing now I can see my hands on the keyboard” (331). She may use her memory of keyboard and touch as inputs which allow the brain to imagine and create images. Therefore, imaginations in one’s brain do not come for no