Talk:Blindsight

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Blindsight is a condition superficially resembling blindness. In blindsight, people with damage to the visual cortex have residual visual sensitivity in a subjectively blind part of the visual field.

This implies that blindsight is active only when one lacks subjective visual qualia, and not in persons with normal eyesight. Michael Hardy 22:19, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

This page implies that blindsight is residual visual capabilities in the absence of phenomenal vision. This is too general a description, it has to be associated with damage to V1 (aka primary visual cortex, striate cortex). I'll try to re-write things to reflect this. patrickw 17:08, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Major changes

I have rewritten this entry a great deal. I apologize for not being able to keep more of it, but I am afraid that large parts of it were simply incorrect and misleading. I happy if people want to try to reincorporate parts of the old entry they feel were correct. This entry could be expanded a great deal, but at least the basics are now reasonably accurate. patrickw 18:11, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] complicated

ok this article is complicated to read. i read it and i still don't understand what blindsight is. is it where someone can't "see", but can still exhibit

[edit] "without any qualitative experience"

I would suggest to correct "without any qualitative experience" in the intro replacing with "without reporting any qualitative experience".--Pokipsy76 (talk) 11:52, 2 February 2008 (UTC)