““To what extent are we the authors, the creators of our own experiences? How much are these predetermined by the brains or senses we are born with, and to what extent do we shape our brains through experience? The effects of a profound perceptual deprivation such as blindness may cast an unexpected light on these questions. Going blind, especially later in life, presents one with a huge, potentially overwhelming challenge: to find a new way of living, of ordering one's world, when the old has been destroyed.””
![“Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things, we fall presently into darkness and obscurity, perplexedness and difficulties;and can discover nothing farther but our own blindnessand ignorance.” quote by John Locke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8bc/john-locke-814_darkness_whensoever-we-would-proceed-beyond-the-s_199491.jpg)
