Your Marvelous Mind

In 2003 a patient known as TN lost his sight after suffering two successive strokes; the visual cortex in his brain was damaged and his vision was totally gone, although the eyes themselves were still healthy. During one examination years after he lost his sight, researchers were flabbergasted to see TN carefully navigate a hallway full of overturned chairs, scattered boxes and other obstacles without colliding with a single thing. How was this possible for a person who was completely blind?

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2015 http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150925-blindsight-the-strangest-form-of-consciousness
2010 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3000284/
2009 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2747232/
2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20150221000725/http://neuronresearch.net:80/vision/pdf/7Dynamics.pdf
1996 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438896800754?via%3Dihub
1974 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/p030241

This story then looks to be recycled over and over

and again in a few years I suppose