stackyFACTSWho needs conscious sight when your optical reflexes can just ghost-ride your body? Even with completely destroyed visual cortices, some individuals can dodge chairs and catch thrown balls because the older, reptilian parts of the brain process visual data entirely off the books.
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In psychology experiments, subjects defended why they picked a photo even when researchers secretly swapped it. Why?
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