It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote.

There have been several experiments that indicate people can see without using their visual cortex.

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    6 months ago

    I have watched that footage, it was veryv interesting, I’ve read. I believe most of the available abstracts and watched the videos at this point

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      6 months ago

      This video uses blind sight in the Intro as a hook for an hour long lecture on sentience.

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        6 months ago

        Oh cool, I found out about blindsight reading an article about how warm-bloodedness, according to Nick Humphrey, I believe is the guy’s name, may have led to sentience and what that means; apparently that’s what his new book is about.

        I guess that’s his jam