(January 20, 2023 at 1:45 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You know I'm comfortable positing that it doesn't.
Nevertheless, there's a strong correlation between visual experience and performance in human beings. People with blindsight are still profoundly disabled. You wont find many blindsighted outfielders.
It's been a while since I last read about blindsight, but the impression I always got was that the main debilitating factor about it was the lack of trust or confidence in the perception (if you can call it that). Ie normally we have these multiple channels, as it were, of consciousness integrating with and reinforcing each other, giving confidence in what we're perceiving, such as the position of an object. But in the case of blindsight where that sense, again, if you can call it that, doesn't integrate with any of the others, it's understandable there would be a feeling of lack of justification or confidence. Basically I guess what I'm saying is, the ability itself may (or may not) be solid, but without confidence in the perceptions, that seems to be where the real disability lies.
