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.

  • krewjew@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Also the name of one of the best sci fi novels ever written, which has references to the phenomenon

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      7 months ago

      Ha, cool, I came across that cover while I was searching for more information on it, it’s pretty good?

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        7 months ago

        I’ve read it no less than 15 times, maybe more. I think I’m finally at the stage where I’m not picking up new stuff on rereads. Yeah. It’s wild.

        Read the flyleaf at the library, sounded impossibly corny. Thought it was time for some cheesy science fiction, get off the serious stuff. I was wrong. I was so wrong.

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    7 months ago

    I think that this is pretty cool i didn’t know anything about it either. The brain is pretty amazing.

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      7 months ago

      Isn’t that wild? They’ve tested people and a chimp so far over the last five decades, apparently investigation into the phenomenon started in the '70s.