> I thought about how to explain my experience. The best hypothesis I've come up with so far is that the neurological process of seeing and the neurological pro

> I thought about how to explain my experience. The best hypothesis I've come up with so far is that the neurological process of seeing and the neurological process of being consciously aware of what I'm seeing are not the same thing. They're independent processes. The scotoma prevented me from subjectively experiencing seeing the book, but did not prevent me from actually seeing it, nor from correctly interpreting what I was seeing. This sounds similar to the phenomenon of blindsight: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight