How to get rich from inflation

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ID20409821
AutoresSimon Alexander Burns Brown (0000-0002-5606-6979, Johns Hopkins University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume117
Páginas103624
Data de publicação2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoConsciousness and Cognition (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1053-8100 • E-ISSN: 1090-2376
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.concog.2023.103624
PMID38150781
OpenAlexW4390242509
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas66

We seem to have rich experience across our visual field. Yet we are surprisingly poor at tasks involving the periphery and low spatial attention. Recently, Lau and collaborators have argued that a phenomenon known as "subjective inflation" allows us to reconcile these phenomena. I show inflation is consistent with multiple interpretations, with starkly different consequences for richness and for theories of consciousness more broadly. What's more, we have only weak reasons favouring any of these interpretations over the others. I provisionally argue for an interpretation on which subjective experience is genuinely rich, but (in peripheral/unattended areas) unreliable as a guide to the external world. The main challenge for this view is that it appears to imply that experience in the periphery is not just unreliable but unstable. However, I argue that this consequence, while initially appearing unintuitive, is in fact plausible

Cognitive psychology · Consciousness · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Qualia · Theoretical physics · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Neural dynamics and brain function · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual perception and processing mechanisms

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