So I was thinking about this the other day, and found it very intriguing.. We can see because we have eyes, hear because we have ears, smell because we have a nose etc etc. But imagine if you never had a nose. You would never know what smell is, or even that it existed. What boggles me is that there could be INFINITE amounts of different things going on around us, but we just don't have the certain "receptors" to acknowledge them. Anybody else get what I'm sayin? Mind fucked the fuck outta me.
I thought about a similar idea the other day...we're trying for a child...and not that this kind of thing runs in either side of our family - but I was thinking, what if our child were blind or deaf? As in, totally - and from birth. Even though they could not do it, it would be nice to try and explain things. How do you explain the concept of sight, to a person that has never had it? "Vision" and "see" would just be words really. A deaf person, how do you tell them about sound? "Your ears feel something"? Unusual, yes.