[extropy-chat] effing

[Acy Stapp]

On 12/5/05, gts <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> True, and this is a possible hole in my own theory about about
> consciousness and awareness. It is possible for example that organisms
> that seem to be aware but unconscious, insects for example, experience
> nothing whatsoever.
>
> However there exists a phenomenon in certain blind humans in which they
> seem to be able to experience vision with no conscious awareness of the
> experience. Put a chair in front of them and they will walk around it even
> with no conscious awareness of seeing it. Apparently their brains can see,
> but they have no conscious awareness of seeing.
>
> Their experience of seeing qualia seems to be separate from their
> conscious awareness of their experience of seeing qualia. I think insect
> minds work this way. They see and experience the world, but don't know it
> -- similar and perhaps no different from the way unconscious cameras see
> the world.
>

I wish I had a reference, but there are some people who are blind
because of brain injury who can make decisions about objects in their
field of view who do not have any conscious visual perception.

Acy

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those
who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw