TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex - eviltoast

It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote.

There have been several experiments that indicate people can see without using their visual cortex.

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    7 months ago

    Scientists seem confident that the visually blind people are actually somehow seeing rather than using their other senses to compensate, so not really, but in the spirit of the bit, yes.