Sense of seeing can kill all other senses. There is no need for smelling, hearing and touching if all we need is to just see an object and know what it is. But as simple as it is, it also destroys any magic which accompany not knowing the truth. Great example of that statement is broadcast created by BBC in 1997 called: ” Touching the Elephant”, which tells the story about four blind people touching and feeling an elephant for the first time. If they have known how an elephant looks like there would be no place for imagination . Brain, having that knowledge, will dismiss any information, which was gathered before using sense of smelling, hearing and touching, because they were simply means to get to know how the examined object looks like. Using our hands we can feel the texture, with our nose we can smell and with our ears we we can hear. Four blind people could experience that magic because for them their minds were their eyes.
Referring to Bonnie M Miller and others, the statement: ” the pictures are better on radio” is indeed true, because like blind people, mentioned in the broadcast, all radio listeners are blind. The only sense we can use while radio listening is the sense of hearing and it gives us whole new spectrum. Imagination can be wild and unexpected, creating inside our heads image which accompany particular piece of sound or just brings memories. The most beautiful aspect of radio listening is that there is no image imposed on us which gives us possibility to see sound through our minds.
based on BBC’s broadcast from 1997 called “Touching the Elephant”