Lehrer talks about how Cezanne was focused on the act of “seeing”, and of this quest to find an ideal formula to understand how much information does someone need to identify an object. Similarly, Arcaro discusses the need for experience to recognize faces, and shows how lack of exposure to an object doesn’t create a recognition deficit for other objects. So, I wonder-Can a blind person know how he/she looks? According to Arcaro, they would have a strong deficit in creating an image of themselves because they’ve never been visually exposed to a face, but according to Cezanne they could have a good approximation because they have some information available to them (i.e. they can touch their face). What would the effect of touching something have on the visual experience one forms? Another case could be: If someone has not been exposed to their face (either by looking in a mirror or a photo of themselves) for an extended period of time, but they know how they looked before the experiment, and they see how people age, would the image that they have of themselves be accurate or not?
Lehrer talks about how Cezanne was focused on the act of “seeing”, and of this quest to find an ideal formula to understand how much information does someone need to identify an object. Similarly, Arcaro discusses the need for experience to recognize faces, and shows how lack of exposure to an object doesn’t create a recognition deficit for other objects. So, I wonder-Can a blind person know how he/she looks? According to Arcaro, they would have a strong deficit in creating an image of themselves because they’ve never been visually exposed to a face, but according to Cezanne they could have a good approximation because they have some information available to them (i.e. they can touch their face). What would the effect of touching something have on the visual experience one forms? Another case could be: If someone has not been exposed to their face (either by looking in a mirror or a photo of themselves) for an extended period of time, but they know how they looked before the experiment, and they see how people age, would the image that they have of themselves be accurate or not?