Can people who were born completely blind create mental images?
This is a question for Psychologists. Mental images are symbols of ideas we gain through the sensory organs. In short, through experience. A blind may be lacking only on one aspect of perception, and that is sight. But much had to be gained in terms of inputs if you have sight. The ideas about things capable of being conveyed only by the eyes, will be greatly diminished by blindness. Mental imagery will never be complete without the sense of sight. The idea of symbolism will be lacking. How will a congenitally blind person, for instance, absorb the idea of color? Even black will be meaningless with the absence of white. And how will a blind comprehend even the idea of absence itself, of these colors, when not being aware of what they are in the first place. And try as they will, even those with sight can’t convey it to them. For even those with sight, could be in hardship just to describe color to another who has sight. Let alone describing it to anyone who has nothing along this const
