Comments on: The little chair is not for sitting on. https://www.lafferty.ca/2005/08/18/the-little-chair-is-not-for-sitting-on/ Rich Lafferty's OLD blog Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 By: thedeli https://www.lafferty.ca/2005/08/18/the-little-chair-is-not-for-sitting-on/comment-page-1/#comment-2004 Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:16:16 +0000 #comment-2004 Reminds me of the famous pre-scientific (don’t ask for dates) unintentional cogsci experiments with a young boy aged eight who was blind from birth. Cataracts, I think. Anyway – some super-primitive Lasik surgery was conducted on that kid, and – lo and behold – he could see! Well, during the child’s recovery process, the doctors found that he could not make *any* sense of paintings, and could not correlate obvious two-dimensional symbols in paintings to real-world items – even simple geometrical shapes. It took the kid years to develop this skill, just as if he was a toddler. That child’s name: Norman Rockwell.

J/K !

]]> By: node https://www.lafferty.ca/2005/08/18/the-little-chair-is-not-for-sitting-on/comment-page-1/#comment-2003 Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:40:18 +0000 #comment-2003 That’s a great article. Thanks for linking to it.

]]> By: opal1159 https://www.lafferty.ca/2005/08/18/the-little-chair-is-not-for-sitting-on/comment-page-1/#comment-2002 Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:49:57 +0000 #comment-2002 I remember that when my youngest sister was little, she would try to put her foot in a toy shoe keychain!

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