You can experience this form of “blindsight” for yourself with a simple experiment. Try standing on one foot for 30 seconds. Pretty easy, right? Do you need to be looking at anything in particular? Now try doing the same thing with your eyes closed.
Thanks! This was quite interesting to try. Just to make it more explicit, your point is supposed to be that here’s a form of visual processing going on that doesn’t “feel like anything” to us, right?
You can experience this form of “blindsight” for yourself with a simple experiment. Try standing on one foot for 30 seconds. Pretty easy, right? Do you need to be looking at anything in particular? Now try doing the same thing with your eyes closed.
I tried it. It was quite a bit harder with my eyes closed. Fascinating! (I tried both right and left foot for both conditions, with the same results.)
Wow that was so much harder than I expected. My sense of balance was going haywire! I lasted 25 seconds then had to put my other foot down..
Thanks! This was quite interesting to try. Just to make it more explicit, your point is supposed to be that here’s a form of visual processing going on that doesn’t “feel like anything” to us, right?
Right.