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I thought the most interesting point of discussion this past week was when we talked about the patients with damage to their neocortices who were unable to "see" the lights flashed on the screen, but were able to point to them with a fair degree of accuracy. This is because the visual information was not getting to the I function even though it was getting to the NS by means of the retina. In light of our past discussions about the I function, this makes total sense. Our "story" of the world depends on what we are aware of: if we are not aware of anything (visual information does not get to I function), then there can be no experience. This implies that what we see, what we sense, what we are is a function of the brain, and ultimately depend on a small fraction of the neurons (the I function). But, this also implies that there might be so much more going on in the world that we do not even realize, that have no connection to our I function. Things we can respond to, but we cannot experience, like pointing to lights we cannot see. Intuition, gut feelings? I wonder how the I function relates to intuition. We experience a sense of insistence, and often we do not know where this feeling comes from, or, we point to this feeling that we often cannot make sense of.