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Ian Phillips

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Blindsight

If you had to pick one example in which scientists and philosophers have thought, this is unconscious perception, and you're now convinced that it isn't, or at least that the data doesn't show that. What's what's an example that springs to mind? I guess the case i've worked most on, and i think has been most influential in in phospienas in science, is this case called blindsight. Blind sight is a condition that's caused by damage, probably troug a stroke, to this area right at the back of your head called the one or primary visual cortex. Seems to you like you can't see anything. But when the scientist moves he stimulus up and

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