{"id":3007,"date":"2015-09-08T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T01:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2015-09-08T01:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T01:08:00","slug":"blindsight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/blindsight\/","title":{"rendered":"Blindsight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a blind spot in the center of your visual field,&#8221; Sarasti pointed out. &#8220;You can&#8217;t see it. You can&#8217;t see the saccades in your visual timestream. Just two of the tricks you know about. Many others. Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing\u2014 irrelevant things. Truth never matters. Only fitness. By now you don&#8217;t experience the world as it exists at all. You experience a simulation built from assumptions. Shortcuts. Lies. Whole species is agnosiac by default.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From the excellent book I&#8217;m reading, Peter Watts&#8217;\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/48484.Blindsight\">Blindsight<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a blind spot in the center of your visual field,&#8221; Sarasti pointed out. &#8220;You can&#8217;t see it. You can&#8217;t see the saccades in your visual timestream. Just two of the tricks you know about. Many others. Brains are survival engines, not truth detectors. If self-deception promotes fitness, the brain lies. Stops noticing\u2014 irrelevant things. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-Mv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}