The grand illusion - Implications for theories of visual consciousness
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What do these results on change blindness and inattentional blindness mean for consciousness?
- they seem to challenge the ‘stream of consciousness’
- they suggest that we don’t hold on to nearly as much information as we seem to need
How can the lack of detail in the internal representation be described?
- sketchy higher-level representation
- extremely reduced visual representations
- gist
- visual representation
What is a gist?
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What is Ronald Rensink’s idea of object representation?
What is a virtual representation?
What did eye-tracking evidence suggests of representations?
What is the sensorimotor theory and from who is it?
The hard problem is avoided, because the outside world serves as its own external representation. Seeing is a way of acting
What did Karn and Hayhoe confirmed about spatial information?
What calls the idea of ‘a stream of vision’ into question?
Raising the possibility that vision may be a grand illusion. How we think and talk about our conscious experience, affect that experience.
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