The Scripture Is False And The Biblical God Is Dead.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Nothing about blindsight back your claims. So this is a dead end. Subjective experience is useful and that's all it needs to be to have evolved. Deal with it ...

Sweet baby Jeezuz - it’s the dreaded Bugs Bunny Riposte!! We’re doomed!

Boru

[Gwaithmir]

I've never seen any evidence that the biblical God, or any god for that matter, was ever alive in the first place. 

[Paleophyte]

The enormous gulf between something that works and something that works well. Sensory pathways that impinge on the conscious mind have a clear advantage over those that don't in that we can rapidly adapt our responses as necessary. We can think about our actions and learn from them. That isn't possible based on instinct alone.

Imagine for a moment that I threw a cactus to you. Do you decide to catch it or dodge it? Guess what the poor bugger with blindsight is picking out of his hands.

People with blindsight are really good at solving extremely complex problems like catching a ball and qualia don't seem to be necessary.

Catching a ball isn't a complex problem.

We can think about our actions and learn from them. That isn't possible based on instinct alone.

You need to provide proof for this claim.

Prove that you have qualia.

Imagine for a moment that I threw a cactus to you. Do you decide to catch it or dodge it? Guess what the poor bugger with blindsight is picking out of his hands.

Patients with blindsight can avoid obstacles.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scien...-awareness

How are they at distinguishing between a prickly pear and green bean bag given no more than a quick "Heads up!"?

[Dmitry1983]

People with blindsight are really good at solving extremely complex problems like catching a ball and qualia don't seem to be necessary.

Catching a ball isn't a complex problem.

you can't be serious

[The Architect Of Fate]

you can't be serious

More serious then the nonsense you keep spewing

[Astreja]

We function better with it.  We can perform complex tasks more easily. 

In case of blindsight we can perform complex tasks without  any qualia

We can perform some tasks.  For instance, if I picked up my clarinet in a totally dark room I'd be able to take it out of the case, assemble it, set the reed, and play something - but only because I've been playing clarinet for 19 years, and because I'm receiving feedback on the tactile and audio channels of my brain.

I would not even think of trying to cut a piece of wood in the dark, even with a small non-powered hand saw, and despite the fact that I've been cutting pieces of wood since I was eight years old.  It poses a physical risk, and without the visual feedback I'd be unable to take precise measurements.

[Dmitry1983]

In case of blindsight we can perform complex tasks without  any qualia

We can perform some tasks. 

We can perform some really really complex tasks like catching an object or avoiding obstacles without qualia. It seems that other complex tasks don't require qualia either.

[The Grand Nudger]

Blindsight patients can perform some tasks..if prompted by another person...and achieve results that are better than chance - but nowhere near the level of conscious vision. Due to this, blindsight is actually a hell of an argument in favor of the evolutionary utility of conscious sight. It doesn't really matter whether we could do some thing x without thing y, when we are demonstrably better at thing x with thing y.

You can swim without gills, too. Should someone tell the fish?

[Angrboda]

Blindsight patients can perform some tasks..if prompted by another person...and achieve results that are better than chance - but nowhere near the level of conscious vision.  Due to this, blindsight is actually a hell of an argument in favor of the evolutionary utility of conscious sight.  It doesn't really matter whether we could do some thing x without thing y, when we are demonstrably better at thing x with thing y.

You can swim without gills, too.  Should someone tell the fish?

You're going to need to show that consciousness actually does anything prior to claiming that it does things better.

[The Grand Nudger]

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.