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.
It’s a very long Royal Institution video, but the first section covers this topic with footage of Helen the monkey. The whole video is fascinating.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9QWaZp_2I1k&t=880s
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I have watched that footage, it was veryv interesting, I’ve read. I believe most of the available abstracts and watched the videos at this point
This video uses blind sight in the Intro as a hook for an hour long lecture on sentience.
Oh cool, I found out about blindsight reading an article about how warm-bloodedness, according to Nick Humphrey, I believe is the guy’s name, may have led to sentience and what that means; apparently that’s what his new book is about.
I guess that’s his jam