{"id":109517,"date":"2020-07-04T21:03:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T04:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/some-blind-people-can-still-see-and-their-brains-could-help-explain-consciousness"},"modified":"2020-07-04T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T04:03:44","slug":"some-blind-people-can-still-see-and-their-brains-could-help-explain-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/some-blind-people-can-still-see-and-their-brains-could-help-explain-consciousness","title":{"rendered":"Some Blind People Can Still See, And Their Brains Could Help Explain Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/some-blind-people-can-still-see-and-their-brains-could-help-explain-consciousness2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine being completely blind but still being able to see. Does that sound impossible? Well, it happens.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, a man (let\u2019s call him Barry) suffered two strokes in quick succession. As a result, Barry was completely blind, and he walked with a stick.<\/p>\n<p>One day, some psychologists placed Barry in a corridor full of obstacles like boxes and chairs. They took away his walking stick and told him to walk down the corridor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being completely blind but still being able to see. Does that sound impossible? Well, it happens. A few years ago, a man (let\u2019s call him Barry) suffered two strokes in quick succession. As a result, Barry was completely blind, and he walked with a stick. One day, some psychologists placed Barry in a corridor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}