On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 8:48 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 May 2015 at 06:11, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > >> On 15 May 2015, at 01:48, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> Are there those rare creatures somewhere in Platonia that see while >> feeling as though they're blind? >> >> No. At the level I think you are, that would be a contradiction with comp. >> > > What about "Blindsight" ? > > (But also being operationally equivalent -- All the same neurons fire in the same way and externally visible behavior is the same, the person is unable to express any deficiency, but they are a zombie or partial zombie.)
People with blind sight are not operationally equivalent, they complain about not being able to see. And this may simply reflect a disconnect between the verbal and visual centers of their brains. Some part of their brain is seeing, they can still navigate obstacles in a room, for instance. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
