# Molyneux’s Problem - Author: **Stanford Report** - Document Tags: [[Molyneux question]] - [URL link](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molyneux-problem/)  ## Highlights - after his cataracts had been removed (1728). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4xmwajvsk1k9exscpcvjxx)) --- - Degenaar (1996) has written a comprehensive survey of the history of the discussion about Molyneux’s problem. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4xqxfa14mh0ngacp7r0b1c)) --- - sensory substitution devices ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4xw4czbdvwe0ybyg3g59z2)) --- - Some researchers have stressed the fact that a sensory aid is not, strictly speaking, a new modality, and that to learn to use such devices is only an approximation to Molyneux’s problem, ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4xxd1tmv63041a6zq7dzsm)) --- - He wondered whether the visual cortex of a patient with congenital blindness could be electrically stimulated in such a way that the patient experiences a pattern of light flashes (phosphenes) in the shape of a square or circle. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4xy6neh28601ec0xhvppfp)) --- - Although after restoration of sight, the subjects could distinguish between objects visually as effectively as they would do by touch alone, they were unable to form the connection between object perceived using the two different senses. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4y0zj574ckgkz02w6qb7eh)) --- - A valuable contribution to the discussion about Molyneux’s Problem is Ferretti and Glenney (2021), a collection of one poem and twenty essays that explore the long-standing issues Molyneux’s problem presents to philosophy of mind, perception and the senses. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hm4y2sd47eecf4g4n3dh40fs)) ---