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TIL about blindsight, a phenomenon by which visually blind people can apparently see or detect objects without using their visual cortex ( en.m.wikipedia.org )

It was a footnote in an article I read about a monkey using blindsight and that there had been several experiments with humans proving blindsight existed and that surprised me. As a footnote....

Xain52 ,

I think that this is pretty cool i didn’t know anything about it either. The brain is pretty amazing.

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