{"id":30066,"date":"2022-03-11T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=30066"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:50:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:50:11","slug":"if-a-man-born-blind-can-feel-the-differences-between-shapes-such-as-spheres-and-cubes-could-he-if-his-sight-was-restored-distinguish-those-objects-by-sight-without-touching-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=30066","title":{"rendered":"If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if his sight was restored, distinguish those objects by sight (without touching them)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Q: &quot;If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he, if his sight was restored, distinguish those objects by sight (without touching them)?&quot;<br>This is Molyneux&#39;s Problem: a thought experiment from 1688. In 2003 it was solved: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kMaYndYvoC\">pic.twitter.com\/kMaYndYvoC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; McKinley Valentine (@mckinleaf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mckinleaf\/status\/1498855727632367619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inusite","category-medecine","category-psychologie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30067,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30066\/revisions\/30067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}