Explain Why the Experiences of Patients with Amnesia or Blind

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Explain why the experiences of patients with amnesia or blind sight are so critical to our understanding of consciousness. Make sure to include in your answer a discussion of the disorders, the paradoxical abilities that the patients exhibit, and what this says about consciousness in the rest of us.

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Definitions:

State

An organized political community living under a government; can also refer to the condition or mode of being.

Individual

A single human being as distinct from a group, class, or family.

Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an 18th-century philosopher who focused on the importance of nature, the critique of modernity, and the concept of the social contract influencing political theory.

General Will

A concept in political philosophy referring to what is in the best interest of the public or society as a whole, famously discussed by Rousseau.