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

    V. S. Ramachandran’s “Phantoms in the Brain” book had a blindsight patient, many years ago ( he’s a neuro-researcher ).

    He handed her an envelope, & asked her to put it in a mailbox ( which I think he held, at some angle, in some semi-random location, before her ), and she did, automatically.

    He said she was absolutely dead blind, but could probably drive, without hitting any obstacles, or do archery, iirc…

    SHE couldn’t see, but something in her unconscious-mind could see.

    He called that something “the zombie”.

    Interesting book, iirc ( it’s been a looong time since I read that one ).

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