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"One patient called lemonade "square" because it pricked on his tongue like as a square shape pricked on the touch of his hands."

This reveals a lot about how the human mind is conditioned to edit our senses so put them together into a single coherent picture. When we are first born, our senses are all jumbled together and we don't really know what to make of it. But eventually through trial and error we learn to form a coherent picture as second-nature.

"This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is."

The phrasing is key here. The simplest animals PERCEIVE the universe as it is, they don't SEE it as it is. So maybe our sight prevents us from accurately perceiving the universe and the blind also perceive the world as it is. However, I also think that not seeing the universe as it is would be is a good thing, because it allows us to make sense of jumbled senses easier.