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Blindsight seems to be a powerful demonstration of how a brain can perform high order actions - e.g. respond to social stimuli such as facial expressions - wit
by finisterre 14y ago
Blindsight seems to be a powerful demonstration of how a brain can perform high order actions - e.g. respond to social stimuli such as facial expressions - without consciousness. It's a reminder that many things we think inseparable from self awareness and consciousness are no such thing. Perhaps you could consider a person with blindisight to have been "downgraded" to the condition of a mammal without consciousness.
- maebert 14y agoI think it's a bit more complicated, since mammals without consciousness (ouh, vague concepts ftw) still show immediate reaction to visual stimuli, where as patient TN and others can react and act upon to visual stimuli, although the traditional "chain of command" is broken.