17 September 2011

Are you blind?! By Etienne from Sainte-Marie

Sacks on the brain!


The facts explained in this video are fascinating! Blind people seeing realistic scenes or figures? That's amazing! Indeed, these results help us answer a question put by Breuer, in an article co-written with Freud: Can we live without the use of a sense (and more generally, what is the role of senses)? Sachs gives a scientific, empirical answer to this metaphysical question: no, we cannot! We might be blind, yet the parts of our brain related to vision work. Hallucinations have huge psychological importance, in so far as they reveal what we WANT to see or the desires deep in our minds...

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