K’s Reviews > The Mind's Eye > Status Update

"To what extent are we the authors, the creators of our own experiences? 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 an overwhelming challenge: to find a new way of living, of ordering one's world, when the old has been destroyed."