The Blind Spot

The reductionist blind spot

How computational thinking resolves a problem in philosophy.

Blind Spot

In monocular viewing there is a region in the peripheral visual field that is blind due to the absence of photoreceptors at the site where the optic nerve exits the eye. This region, like certain other blind spots, nonetheless appears filled in (Walls 1954). Ramachandran (1992a,b) has recently reported several novel demonstrations of filling-in at the blind spot. In this essay we critically ree...

Right brain: The blind spot.

Christina B. Pham, MD “He’s not moving his left arm.” No mother wants to hear that about her newborn in the delivery room. I was a fourth-year medical student; my husband was a surgical resident. We couldn’t contain the windstorm of scary diagnoses that came over us as we heard those words. Did he have a congenital syndrome? A stroke? Over the next few days, the pediatricians reassured us it wa...

Inhaler technique blind spot.

We would like to thank D. Stanescu for giving us the opportunity to clarify the definition of airflow obstruction recently given in the interpretative strategies document from the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society (ERS) Task Force [1]. The document states that in most cases a ratio of forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) to vital capacity (VC) below the lower limit...

A blind spot tester.