SHALL THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND?

Why the Blind Can't Lead the Blind: Dennett on the Blind Spot, Blindsight, and Sensory Qualia

In Consciousness Explained Dan Dennett proposes a deflationary treatment of sensory qualia. He seeks to establish a continuity among both the neural and the conscious phenomena connected with the blind spot and with the perception of repetitive patterns on the one hand and the neutral and conscious phenomena connected with blindsight on the other. He aims to analyze the conscious phenomena asso...

Balance in the Blind: A Systematic Review

Objective: This paper reviews the studies on balance in the blind. Methods: The paper comprehensively reviewed studies on balance in the blind from the following databases: PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trials, Google Scholar, and Scopus, from 2001 to 2019. Also, other available papers were examined. Results: Out of 35 evaluat...

The Blind Shall See! The Question of Anonymity in Journal Peer Review

Substitute functions of the blind and the deaf and blind.

BLINDNESS was and still is considered the most serious of defects, and of all those suffering from a bodily infirmity the blind are the invalids who are most pitied by their fellow-men. But if you ask those who are both deaf and blind which defect is the most difficult to bear, their answer is without hesitation: deafness. And, indeed, the lack of sight can be offset to such a high degree by th...

The blind breeding the blind: Adaptive behavior without looking

Sensors and internal states are often considered necessary components of any adaptively behaving organism, providing the information needed to adapt a creature’s behavior in response to conditions in its external or internal environment. But adaptive, survivalenhancing behavior is possible even in simple simulated creatures lacking all direct contact with their environment — evolutionarily shap...