On Fri, 23 May 2003 10:04:01 +0000, Sean Charles wrote

> Go and talk to a blind person who visits art galleries. Then tell me 
> again that pictures cannot be represented as text, albeit in braille.

i think you will agree with me that the overall feeling of visual perception 
of an object is different from the perception arising from touching that 
object. so there is no guarantee that the blind "sees" the same picture as i 
see. for example, he could have find details in the picture which i am unable 
to see with my vision. and from the other side: i can see details which he 
cannot grasp by touching them.

do you remember the analogy where several blind people touch the same 
elephant and everyone of them describes the elephant as being something 
completely different?