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Re: THEORY: questions

From:Colin Halverson <chalvrson@...>
Date:Thursday, October 25, 2001, 20:48
In a message dated 10/25/01 12:21:17 AM, christophe.grandsire@FREE.FR writes:

<< > Actually even blind people have a sense of distance (not just from

> sound,
> they can feel you know :)
>
So they can "feel" that something is at 100m instead of 10m? I wonder how they do that without using sound, or actually moving for the 100m and counting their steps... >> You're right. I guess they don't have a way to tell exact distances, but (believe me) they can "guess," I guess you could say, pretty acurately. They are definately not in a 2-D world. Colin