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Also see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nuclear-bombs-made-it-possible-to-carbon-date-human-tissue-20074710/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-ne

by piyh 8y ago

Also see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nuclear-bombs-made-it-possible-to-carbon-date-human-tissue-20074710/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nuclear-bombs-made... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight Blindsight is an amazing phenomenon with its implications for intelligence without consciousness and a great book by the same name.

anotherhuman0 8y ago
> One monkey in particular, Helen, [...] was a macaque monkey that had been decorticated; specifically, her primary visual cortex (V1) was completely removed, blinding her. Wow, go humans. But I guess this is nothing in comparison with what the commercial farming industry gets up to :(
- taneq 8y ago
  Yeah, if that got a squick reaction then don't go looking up too much animal-based research. We do all sorts of ugly things to animals in the name of science. :/ But we learn all sorts of interesting and useful things from it, so... it's one of those trolley problem things.