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Because its innate

• andy_ppp 7y ago
  Or that part of the brain is adapted for other uses. We cannot imagine what it's like to be congenitally blind... the world would be extremely different.
  • qnsi 7y ago
    You can read Blank Slate by Steven Pinker where he talks about this. We can do neuroimaging and try to guess what happens
• garmaine 7y ago
  No, a big clump of neurons in that area is innate. When hooked up to functioning eyes, what we call the “visual cortex” develops in the vast majority of sighted people. If it were truly innate, babies would be born with fully functioning visual processing centers, which they are not. There is also every reason to suspect this doesn’t happen in congenitally blind individuals, where the visual feedback loop is not available during neural development.
  • qnsi 7y ago
    fair point, I think you are right. But I think that things that are innate doesn't have to be fully developed in babies. Puberty is also innate but develops in teenagers