An idea from Summa Theologica

You aren’t a mind riding around inside a body. The soul is united to the body as its form, so the two make one living thing. That’s why your knowing starts in the senses: a man who is born blind can have no knowledge of colors.

From Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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