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Yes, bats are most well known for their ability to use sound to navigate, but, of course, that navigation is what enables them to fly proficiently without very acute vision.  I agree with you, though, on your terming of “blindness” as a matter of inability to navigate oneself in the world.  You and I may be unable to see, but it’s clear that neither of us have allowed that to prevent us from doing anything.

Well, perhaps in the future, when I’m allowed to perform experiments with fMRI machines at will, I’ll call upon you to undergo a scan so we can see what you’re thinking when your curious synesthetic pathways are at work.

Maybe you would have been more proficient had your title been “Seer of Brain” or “Seer of Cartesian Dualism”.  You never know.