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2. So in essence, the eyes in these blind people work perfectly fine?

Reply to oldcynic (Original post)

Mon May 1, 2017, 10:57 PM

May 2017

Their eyes sense information, encode it, and send it to a particular region in the brain. Then that region in the brain sends that information to the part used for formulating their "guess" on which way the arrow is pointing or to the part necessary to walk around objects but never sends the information to the part associated with consciousness? Mind blown.

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A few blind people can "see", leading to discoveries about consciousness [View all] oldcynic May 2017 OP

Amazing. Marie Marie May 2017 #1

So in essence, the eyes in these blind people work perfectly fine? Massacure May 2017 #2

Her eyes work fine, yes sakabatou May 2017 #5

We live in an amazing reality...for those that alittlelark May 2017 #3

Makes me wonder what else our brains are hiding for us. tinrobot May 2017 #4

mind tricks MountainFool May 2017 #6

Ramachandran described such a case in "Phantoms in the Brain" ... eppur_se_muova May 2017 #7

Interesting that it's among formerly sighted people who lost their sight Warpy May 2017 #8