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The foregoing discussion looked into an aspect of sound perception that can be enhanced to detect non sound sources, remarkably showing how the interpretations and inferences made from such expansion could mislead, fail to convey the TRUE information, and generally the so called logical deduction end up in silly and ignorant conclusions.

As a result of the previous post, I spent a remarkable time imagining how best I could illustrate on limit of sight as a sense tool. I thought to hypothesise as follows:

Consider a possibility of discovering another planet like earth in all respects except that human species is missing; same geology, same geography, same ecosystem, same plants and animals, but absense of humans (a rather description of a biblical earth at the end of the fifth creation day).

Then let's say some infants that are totally blind by birth, who can only give birth to the blind, whose vision functionality are impaired straight from the genetic codes, are placed in this planet. So they are left to grow, develop, advance, replicate (give birth to blind humans), and also, since they haveadvanced reasoning power, logical understanding of concepts, ability to ask questions and seek answers, they device means to acquire, preserve and propagate knowledge.

One of their primary concerns would be to understand their environment. So the quest to understand this would be to let's say analyse their means of communication, of which will be the study of sound.

One thing they will realise is that sound must travel because the speaker and the listener are not at the same point. So my question here will be, given the primitivity of these people, how best will they expand their sense of sound?

Accordingly, imagine a way an experiment could be set by them to detect differences in objects. One way would be to send sound to an object, be reflected by the object, then they analyse the resulting variations in sound quality.

How would they explain their source of energy? Can they at one time know that there is light? How will they rationalise a concept that at times there is heat (they through the sense of touch will feel hotter when directly being hit by the sun rays) whereas at some other time there is cold?

How can they investigate a phenomenon like photosynthesis?

Let's expand this sense of sound first and understand its limitation assuming the hypothesised environment so that we can do some application to our possible expansion of light sense. The next post is an hypothetical experiment to understand how plants grow!