Conscious vs Blindsight - What's the difference?
conscious | blindsight |
Alert, awake.
Aware.
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Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
* 1999 , Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now , Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:
The responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.
* 1992', , "Unconscious Vision: The Strange Phenomenon of '''Blindsight ," ''The Sciences , vol. 32, no. 5, p. 23:
As an adjective conscious
is alert, awake.As a noun blindsight is
the responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.conscious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
- Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
- The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious' person more intensely ' conscious .
Antonyms
* asleep * unaware * unconsciousDerived terms
* consciously * consciousness * subconscious * unconscious * preconscious * price-conscious * self-consciousblindsight
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Noun
(-)- On more pointed testing Sanders and I, along with the National Hospital psychologist Elizabeth K. Warrington, discovered to our amazement that Daniel's "blind" field was not blind at all in the usual sense. . . . When objects were placed in his blind field, he made virtually no errors locating them, though he could not tell us what they were. . . . "I couldn't see anything, not a darn thing," Daniel told us. All he would allow was a "feeling" about an object in some, but not all, [of] the tests. We named the extraordinary phenomenon blindsight .
