What would a person with no eyes see?

Question

Ask a blind person what he sees, he'll say blackness. But what about a person with no eyes?

My theory is that they see Nothing, not blackness, but nothing. My friend disagrees, he says blackness is nothing. I disagree with that, the point is a blind person has the ability to see it's just his eyes are so badly damaged he cannot see light or shapes. But remove the eyes, He loses the sense of vision completely and his eyes no longer send a damaged image to his brain. So he doesn't see anything not even the image of blackness.

What do you think?

Answer 1

I'd figure blackness. Would people with no eyes dream though?

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Answer 2

well..

i can't imagine they'd see much tbh..

Answer 3

How would anyone know if blackness is nothing? White could also be nothing. When you shut your eyes, you don't see black because you've got no eyes. Your eyes still work - so the blackness is something, right?

Answer 4

cyclops has visors as eye because he can't see hes blind

Answer 5

blackness also! IT is just like being blind!  

Answer 6

i agree with your friend, blackness is nothing. therefore, a guy with no eyes sees blackness

Answer 7

They still have the ability to create images on what they think things would look like.  Just because a person does not have eyes that does not mean they no longer have an imagination.

Answer 8

Blindness means that images are no longer transferred to the brain. That will be the same "sight" as when the eyes are removed, because then, also, images will not be projected to the brain.

So both a blind person and a person without eyes (who is also blind) will "see" blackness.

Answer 9

Your concept of blindness is incorrect.  Blindness is also casued by nerve damage (specifically the optic nerve), and can ALSO be caused by the brains inability to interpret the nerve impulses.

But "blackness" is not an in image.  That is how our brains interpret the lack of signal falling on the retina.  Have you ever been in a totally dark cave?  Thre is no light to to trigger the retina cells, and we interpret this lack of signal as 'blackness".  Lack of signal on the retina is the same as having no retina -- so a person with no eyes sees blackness.

Some blind people, even with eyes removed, see "sparkles" of color and flashes of light.  This shows that the eye is damaged but the nerves are receiving random signals of some sort.

Generally speaking, though when ANY part of the SYSTEM is damaged (eye, nerve, brain) the result is blackness.

Answer 10

He would see Darkness. That is different than Blackness. Darkness is the absents of Light, not the opposite of Color.  

Answer 11

Darkness duh

Answer 12

It depends...

A person who was born with non-functional eyes may not even be able to describe what they see (blackness, darkness, etc)  because they have never had a reference to base their observation on.

A person who was born with sight but has lost their vision would probably describe what they "see" as blackness, blurry brightness, or random sparks of light in blackness.  This depends on the type of blindness they have.  For someone who has lost their sight later in life, their brain may deny what it sees and interpret it differently.

So in answer to your question, it all depends on the person, how they became blind and when.

Answer 13

I think it'd be nothing, not sure exactly what that would be, but yeah without eyes they wouldn't even be able to see blackness. I think you are right.