What is meant by mind blindness?

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Mind Blindness

Q. What is meant by mind blindness?

A. Mind blindness is a condition in which, al­though a person's eyesight is perfect, he is still unable to see. The eye and the optic nerve per­form their function properly, but the nerve center in the brain in which are stored the memories of sight no longer performs its function and so the object is not recognized, although it may be a most familiar one. Mind blindness may be related to various objects or only to words. In some rare cases the mind blindness may relate to words of one language only, while words of another language may be recognized promptly. This condition is due to an injury to a small portion of brain substance found near the anterior portion of the left side of the brain. Recovery sometimes occurs, although the injury is often permanent.

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