From: brent.allsop@attbi.com
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 14:01:41 MST
Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal@smigrodzki.org> commented:
>>>However, we have to remember that only a very small number of neurons, if
any, in the primary visual cortex, is correlated with conscious experience.<<<
This can only be true if you are talking about the voluntary cognitive part of
conscious experience. Though important, this voluntary part is a small part of
conscious experience. Everything we experience visually fills the primary
visual cortex. This is the non-voluntary part of conscious experience. The
non-voluntary nature leads to the deception that it is really what we are
looking at beyond our senses, rather than simply our involuntary representation
in the visual cortex. If there is any damage any place in the primary visual
cortex the corresponding involuntary space in our visual awareness no longer
exists. The primary visual cortex is a very big part of conscious experience.
Brent Allsop
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