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Yes. Some blind people report being able to see things with sound and MRI scans show their visual cortex lighting up [1,2,3]. A 2019 paper [4] showed that the visual cortex of a blind echolocating person is lighting up in a comparable way to that of a sighted person.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3102086/

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/blind-people-echolocate-with...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation#Brain_areas...

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6790759/

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