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11-25-2005, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by SinJin
When people go blind, their other senses, especially hearing, increase dramatically. But when someone goes deaf, how come their eyesight doesn't increase? Is it because we don't rely as much on hearing as we do sight?
YES!

We rely, in the 80% of the perceptions and observations we do, that is, the information that we obtain from the world, comes from the eye. It tells us color, size, shape....

Around a 15% is the hearing, and the left 5% is from the others.

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