When Krish disrupted the visual cortex, his subjects' ability…
When Krish disrupted the visual cortex, his subjects' ability to distinguish touch dropped almost to the level of chance.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Satisfaction: The Science of Finding True Fulfillment by Gregory Berns, MD, Ph.D.
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Think for a moment about what the world of a newborn must truly be like: sounds overlapping, sensory impressions arriving all at once with no order to them, before language, before even command of your own two hands. Imagine your faculties peeled away one by one and you will feel how close to raw chaos a human consciousness actually starts — disturb its wiring even a little and the senses bleed into one another. From the very first moment the mind is doing frantic triage, sorting the welcome from the unwelcome, grouping like with like, scrambling to build a map. — Takeoff Into Chaos
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