Blooming, buzzing confusion, 2007, Oil on panelIt may be that young infants, and those who have sight restored after having been born blind, 'see' the world in a way that is more faithful to its true state of being than those who see it as being full of objects.
To the those without the capacity to see objects (as far as we know this is the case in very young children and post-operative cataract patients, or those diagnosed with visual agnosia) the world must seem, as William James termed it, like a "blooming, buzzing, confusion", i.e. rich, variegated, mobile, but ultimately devoid of recognisable 'things'.
But of course, this is much closer to what the world is really like. It does not contain discrete, separate things, even though we might strongly believe it does. In fact it contains nothing our senses would lead us believe is there: no colours, sounds, textures, shapes, smells, hot or cold values, etc. All these appear only as a consequence of our sensory apprehension of the world.
Because we know this (it is uncontroversial scientific knowledge, as has been so for more than a century) we have to accept the consequences for our understanding of reality.
