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Blindsight

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Blindsight is the ability of people who are cortically blind due to lesions in their striate cortex, also known as primary visual cortex or V1, to respond to visual stimuli that they do not consciously see. [1]

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Akinetopsia

Akinetopsia (Greek: a for "without", kine for "to move" and opsia for "seeing"), also known as cerebral akinetopsia or motion blindness, is a neuropsychological disorder in which a patient cannot perceive motion in their visual field, despite being able to see stationary objects without issue.

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Anton–Babinski syndrome

Anton–Babinski syndrome, also known as visual anosognosia, is a rare symptom of brain damage occurring in the occipital lobe.

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Arnold Kutzinski

Arnold Kutzinski (17 August 1879 in Berlin – 26 December 1956 in Jerusalem) was a Jewish German psychiatrist and neurologist, known as an outspoken critic of psychoanalysis.

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As She Climbed Across the Table

As She Climbed Across the Table is a 1997 science fiction novel by the American writer Jonathan Lethem.

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Beatrice de Gelder

Beatrice M. L. de Gelder (born 1944) is a cognitive neuroscientist and neuropsychologist.

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Berit Brogaard

Berit Oskar Brogaard (born August 28, 1970) is a Danish and American philosopher specializing in the areas of cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

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Blindsight (disambiguation)

Blindsight is a neurological phenomenon.

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Blindsight (Watts novel)

Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006.

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Brain damage

Brain damage or brain injury (BI) is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells.

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Brodmann area 19

Brodmann area 19, or BA 19, is part of the occipital lobe cortex in the human brain.

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Consciousness

Consciousness is the state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

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Consciousness and the Brain

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts is a 2014 book by Stanislas Dehaene.

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Cortical blindness

Cortical blindness is the total or partial loss of vision in a normal-appearing eye caused by damage to the brain's occipital cortex.

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Cortical visual impairment

Cortical visual impairment (CVI) is a form of visual impairment that is caused by a brain problem rather than an eye problem.

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David M. Rosenthal (philosopher)

David M. Rosenthal is a philosopher at the City University of New York (CUNY) who has made significant contributions to the philosophy of mind, particularly in the area of consciousness.

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Deaf hearing

Deaf hearing refers to a condition in which a deaf individuals are able to react to an auditory stimulus, without actually being able to hear it.

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Dermo-optical perception

Dermo-optical perception (DOP) — also known as dermal vision, dermo-optics, eyeless sight, eyeless vision, skin vision, skin reading, finger vision, paroptic vision, para-optic perception, cutaneous perception, digital sight, and bio-introscopy — is a term that is used in parapsychological literature to denote the alleged capability to perceive colors, differences in brightness, and/or formed images through the skin (without using the eyes, as distinct from blindsight), especially upon touching with the fingertips.

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Divided consciousness

Divided consciousness is a term coined by Ernest Hilgard to define a psychological state in which one's consciousness is split into distinct components, possibly during hypnosis.

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Ernst Pöppel

Ernst Pöppel (born 1940) is a German psychologist and neuroscientist Pöppel was born in Schwessin, Farther Pomerania.

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Explanatory gap

In philosophy of mind and consciousness, the explanatory gap is the difficulty that physicalist theories have in explaining how physical properties give rise to the way things feel when they are experienced.

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FantLab's Book of the Year Award

The FantLab's book of the year award (Russian: Книга года по версии Фантлаба) are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works published in Russia during previous year.

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Hard problem of consciousness

The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why we have qualia or phenomenal experiences—how sensations acquire characteristics, such as colors and tastes.

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Head injury

A head injury is any injury that results in trauma to the skull or brain.

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Hemispatial neglect

Hemispatial neglect, also called hemiagnosia, hemineglect, unilateral neglect, spatial neglect, contralateral neglect, unilateral visual inattention,Unsworth, C. A. (2007).

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Homonymous hemianopsia

Hemianopsia, or hemianopia, is a visual field loss on the left or right side of the vertical midline.

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Index of philosophy articles (A–C)

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Knowledge argument

The knowledge argument (also known as Mary's room or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article "Epiphenomenal Qualia" (1982) and extended in "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986).

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Koniocellular cell

A koniocellular cell (konio: Greek, dust, also known as K cell) is a neuron with a small cell body that is located in the koniocellular layer of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) in primates, including humans.

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Lateral geniculate nucleus

The lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN; also called the lateral geniculate body or lateral geniculate complex) is a relay center in the thalamus for the visual pathway.

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Lawrence Weiskrantz

Lawrence Weiskrantz (28 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a British psychologist, who discovered the phenomenon of blindsight.

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Modal logic

Modal logic is a type of formal logic primarily developed in the 1960s that extends classical propositional and predicate logic to include operators expressing modality.

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Nicholas Humphrey

Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (born 27 March 1943) is an English neuropsychologist, based in Cambridge, who is known for his work on the evolution of primate intelligence and consciousness.

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Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney (born 1964) is a British Indian musician, producer and composer.

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Preconscious

In psychoanalysis, preconscious are the thoughts which are unconscious at the particular moment in question, but which are not repressed and are therefore available for recall and easily 'capable of becoming conscious'—a phrase attributed by Sigmund Freud to Joseph Breuer.

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Recovery from blindness

Recovery from blindness is the phenomenon of a blind person gaining the ability to see, usually as a result of medical treatment.

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Riddoch syndrome

Riddoch syndrome (also known as the Riddoch phenomenon) is an ocular affectation often caused by lesions in the occipital lobe which limit the sufferer's ability to distinguish objects.

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Robert William Kentridge

Dr Robert William Kentridge (born 1960) is a British experimental psychologist.

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Sense

A sense is a physiological capacity of organisms that provides data for perception.

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Sentience

Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively.

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Sybil Robson Orr

Sybil Ann Robson Orr is an American film producer.

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The Astonishing Hypothesis

The Astonishing Hypothesis is a 1994 book by scientist Francis Crick about consciousness.

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Turing test

The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

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Two-streams hypothesis

The two-streams hypothesis is a widely accepted and influential model of the neural processing of vision as well as hearing.

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Visual extinction

Visual extinction is a neurological disorder which occurs following damage to the parietal lobe of the brain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight

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