You cannot put the wind in a bag: How we learned to see nature

You cannot put the wind in a bag: How we learned to see nature

We are taught how to see. When a healthy child is born, their eyes go about things with genetic efficiency: blinking and blurry, but functional. A new world of color, shape, and depth overwhelms the eyes that have only ever been closed. These eyes are cameras on the world. They take a snapshot of whatever they’re offered and send it on to the brain. And this is where the real seeing happens. Early in life, you absorb your native language. We giv…