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I've always figured it's our visions ability to perceive wholes, one of something. A clear conceptual border between two entities.

• hliyan 6y ago
  Yes, but it's possible to perceive distict objects without vision, except the separation is in time, rather than space. Or, depends on the number of sense organs available (e.g. a blind person can sense two different objects simultaneously by holding one in each hand).
  • Phenomenit 6y ago
    Agreed, I wonder if the same amount of abstract concept would be possible though, can you feel a graph? could you do trigonometry with just hearing and sense of touch?
    • pm321 6y ago
      "could you do trigonometry with just hearing and sense of touch?" Can you get data on this from a Monte Carlo method of study on match play between sighted and blind players playing go and chess at distance and blind which requires a mental model of the board state and translations?