On 10/06/07, Mark Peaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * But I agree also that you are highly unlikely to come across > someone who can truthfully say 'I am not conscious'. It seems > totally self-contradictory: for example a person not just with > 'hemi' neglect, but total neglect. How could such a person > encounter themselves or the world? > Or is there the possibility of something like so-called > blindsight in every sensory modality? For example: deaf-hearing, > numb-sensing, proprio-non-ception? This would imply a zombie > [without 'a life'] which survived by making apparently random > guesses about everything yet getting significantly more than > chance success in each modality. >
See this discussion with Jesse Mazer a few months ago on cortical blindness: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/browse_thread/thread/93962ea1b2e09e2/e1dcc437c27c2877?lnk=gst&q=cortical+blindness&rnum=1#e1dcc437c27c2877 -- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
