[ExI] Possible seat of consciousness found

[Brent Allsop]

I get what you are saying.  And I agree.  But there are still the facts of
the matter that people suffering from "blind sight
<https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150925-blindsight-the-strangest-form-of-consciousness>"
can catch a ball, even though there is no visual conscious awareness of
that ball.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:54 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Well I assume if the researchers say they were reaching FOR things it
> means that there were objects that the monkeys could determine the location
> of and then reach for.  Which would imply visual processing
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:36 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> They were "sleep "seeing and reaching for things".
>>
>> Until they know what redness and greenness.... are and how they are
>> computationally bound, and they can directly observe THAT, the external
>> behavior they are seeing could be LOTS of stuff that isn't consciousness.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 8:21 AM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
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>>
>>> How did they see and reach for things if the visual cortex was
>>> anesthetized??
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