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absolute hedonism of doing whatever we please
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The question of “knowing” color is very complex and has paradoxical aspects that are
difficult to dissect. Certainly Mr. I. was intensely aware of a profound loss with the change in
his vision, so clearly some sort of comparison with past experience was possible for him. Such
a comparison is not possible if there is a complete destruction of the primary visual cortex on
both sides, say from a stroke, as in Anton’s syndrome. Patients with this syndrome become
totally blind, but make no complaint or report of their blindness. They do not know they are
blind; the whole structure of consciousness is completely reorganized—instantly so—at the
moment they are stricken
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