Find your blind spot

The spot lies about fifteen degrees from the point of gaze, toward the temple. Edme Mariotte first described it in the 1660s: at that place on the retina the optic nerve leaves the eye.

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Conscious Selection · Chapter 2

Twenty Watts

Twenty watts. That is how much the organ you are reading this line with consumes. A fridge light bulb takes fifteen, a laptop under load sixty, a kettle two thousand. For those twenty watts you get sight, hearing, speech, memory of the summer before last,…

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