Molyneux's question solved

it's one of philosophy's old questions: If a blind person who never saw anything suddenly got his or her sight, would they be able to identify objects that they had only felt before?

and the answer is no.

For the critical test, however, in which the children first felt an object and then tried to distinguish visually between that same object and a similar one, the results were barely better than if they had guessed.

"They couldn't form the connection," said Yuri Ostrovsky, also a researcher at MIT and a co-author of the study.

"The conclusion is that there does not seem to be any cross-modal" - that is, from one sense to the other - "representation available to perform the task," he said.

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