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There’s an ~100% chance Helen Keller got asked about this. Uh, yep, although I don’t recognise the source and can’t guarantee it’s not fake or AI slop. The format would be new for slop - the actual fact is in image form, there’s a comment section and it’s dated over a decade ago.
If someone has a copy of her autobiography they could look for it to verify.
People who are born blind dream with the sensation of touch, sound, smell and taste. Basically how they experience the world when they are awake. No image but the rest intact. I imagine it’s same for the deafblind except sans sound.
This made me thing of another question if someone was born deaf but if you attached a device that would have a mic with an amplifier and a transducer that touched the skin so they could feel the vibration frequency changes based on sound. Could they develop a new way of hearing sounds? Could they learn to speak?
Vibration receptors can’t distinguish frequencies well enough. Cochlear implants exist, though, and work by directly exciting the auditory nerve.
Yeah I know it doesn’t have the resolution of ear drums and the implant is going to better but I wonder if someone can adapt to that lower resolution
Almost certainly not. Touch is really just geared to detecting the presence or absence of vibration. I’d be surprised if you could get a double digit set of waveforms which could be reliably distinguished, let alone the endless combinations that make up normal hearing.