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People blind from birth literally lack the neural circuits to comprehend visual data. Are they not intelligent?
by Marha01 7mo ago
People blind from birth literally lack the neural circuits to comprehend visual data. Are they not intelligent?
- cubefox 7mo agoI think they don't actually lack them, or lack only a small fraction (their brains are ≈99% like a normal human brain), such that if they were an AI model, they could be fairly trivially upgraded with vision capability.
- maldev 7mo agoI think I can confidently say they are not visually intelligent at all. If you were phrasing things to quantify intelligence, you would have a visual intelligence pillar. And they would not pass that pillar. It doesn't make them dysfunctional or stupid, but visual intelligence is a key part of human intelligence.
- notnullorvoid 7mo agoVisual intelligence is a near meaningless term as it's almost entirely dependant on spatial intelligence. The visually impaired do have high spatial intelligence, I wouldn't be surprised if their spatial intelligence is actually higher on average than those without visual impairment.