BLINDSIGHT AND CONSCIOUSNESS

Implications for understanding consciousness are considered by focusin g on two behaviors whose mutual disparity indicates blindsight. Among the topics are: (a) the basis on which people report seeing something in particular; (b) two interpretations of blindsighted subjects' force d-choice guessing as affected by perceptual judgments outside subjects ' awareness or as based on ''pure perceptual knowledge'' of which subj ects have awareness, though this ''knowledge'' is nonconsciously acqui red; (c) whether blindsight is ''behavior divorced from awareness''; a nd (d) an interpretation of blindsight as a matter of responding to in ternal occurrences.