Blindsight and Consciousness. Neurizons 2018

Nicholas Humphrey describes how his research on blindsight and social intelligence led to a new theory of what consciousness is for.

[bigtexnick]

Really, really deep stuff. Fascinating, beautiful, hard-hitting to the core of what it means to be human. Love it.

[xiqueira]

Amazing connection between consciousness and sensation and lack thereof. Thank you for this piece.

[milwilliams]

This is utterly fascinating - I would love to discuss more.

[Fraunzi]

Read the book Blindsight by Dr. Peter Watts if you’re interested in this topic and love hard sci - fi

[andrinjohnpolmunes]

I guest this also proves that we can memorize some bits of data without conscious effort