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Right, there is a physical difference between the brain of a person who has been blind from birth and someone who has not. This also means that if you restore sight to someone who once had it and then lost it, they should have no trouble picking out an object they hadn't seen (only felt), even if it was an object they had neither seen nor felt prior to losing their vision.



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