Re: virus: (un)selfishness
Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 00:52:34 +0100
In message <4QAOEXAxcUXzEwKn@martz.demon.co.uk>, Martz
<martz@martz.demon.co.uk> writes
> One one patient this would cause him to
>look over his left shoulder. Every time the button was pushed, he'd
>glance to the left. When he was asked what he was looking for he always
>had a sensible reason; "I was looking for my slippers" or "I heard
>something". What does this say about motivation?
This sounds curiously like the description I vaguely remember
for a phenomenan called blind sight. This occurs in totaly blind
subjects. When movement occurs in the periphery of what would normally
be their "field of vision" they turn their heads in that direction. I
think they always had a sensible reason as well.
Tony Hindle.