tilthat: TIL a philosophy riddle from 1688 was
recently solved. If a man born blind can feel
the differences between shapes such as
spheres and cubes, could he, if given the
ability, distinguish those objects by sight
alone? In 2003 five people had their sight
restored though surgery, and, no they could
not.
nentuaby:
I love when apparently Deep questions turn
out to have clear empirical answers.
The original premise was based on general geometric shapes. Spheres and cubes. Your proposal is closer to asking them to identify somebody they know by photograph.
Even that's assuming the average person could distinguish their own butthole from another butthole by feel alone. I don't know if that's true and I don't like the idea of conducting experiments to find out.