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Bernard Morin, a successful topologist who was part of the team that exhibited the first sphere eversion, was blind since age 6.
Pretty incredible to do this sort of stuff with no visual aids at all.
@ayegill i am very normal. i can be trusted around numbers followed by exclamation marks.
@ayegill unconstrained by the chains of perception, he could dream what is ineffable for us
@ayegill I'd argue that while impressive work, it shouldn't be surprising that he was able to at all, but rather that this is the very reason he was able to; his visualization capability wasn't anchored to 3 dimensions and was freer than most
I wanted to end the first sentence with an exclamation point, but I just know you smartasses would have gone "DURRR blind since age 720?? Wow he really lived a long time"