So yesterday in Theory of Knowledge we were to walk around the school with our eyes closed trying to understand what its like being blind. As many of you know when one sense goes away the others become heightened my sense of touch,smell,hearing all improved i noticed things that i have never noticed before such as things like bumps in the floor, the breathing of the grade 9's as the horde through the hallways like the uruk-hai in Lord of the Rings.
Could being blind increase your knowledge in the other areas of your life what if you couldn't feel would that increase your sense of sight, or what what if you couldn't smell many people have told me that without your sense of smell you couldn't taste because your smell makes up over have your taste sense.
Maybe they react with some better then others sight, hearing and touch vs smell and taste.
Could they interlock in a way that makes them differ but also be the same?
The fact is when one goes away the others heighten some less then others when smell goes away taste may not height a lot but it will still be there doing the same thing it always had, but it does in fact differ from sight when you lose your sight your other sense have to heighten to certain levels so you can still function as a human.
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Interesting... I do think however that if you were to lose another one of your senses, the other's would not increase all that much. People are ridiculously sight oriented, so the loss of sight causes them to adapt by using other senses more. If you were to lose your sense of taste, I doubt your eyesight would increase, because we are not very taste oriented beings.
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