[extropy-chat] effing

Ola Bini Ola.Bini at ki.se
Tue Dec 6 17:01:17 UTC 2005


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>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

Hi.

Daniel C Dennets Consciousness Explained have some discussions about 
qualia, and specifically about these weird cases when the higher level 
processing of visual input have been disabled, but the persons such 
afflicted can still unconsciously react to visual input.

Regards
  Ola Bini





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