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    Change blindness does not show that there is no conscious... — Carmelics
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    Change blindness does not show that there is no consciousness in the absence of attention; rather, it shows that consciousness exists in the absence of attention but is restricted to the scene's overall gist.

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    • 1.Phenomenal consciousness, as Ned Block distinguishes it from access consciousness, can be rich and present without being cognitively accessible or reportable.
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    • 2.Change blindness prevents report of changed details but leaves intact the phenomenal field from which gist is continuously extracted.
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    • 3.Subjects' consistent reports of 'something changed' without identifying what changed confirm phenomenal presence without attentive access.
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    • 1.Lamme's recurrent processing theory holds that local feedback loops generate phenomenal consciousness prior to and independent of top-down attentional modulation.
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    • 2.If consciousness required attention, subjects would report blank perceptual fields during inattentional conditions, but they reliably report rich scenes with vague periphery instead.
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    • 3.The gist of a scene is computed rapidly via feedforward sweeps before attention deploys, providing a substrate for unattended phenomenal content consistent with the claim.
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    • 1.Only narratively insignificant differences go unnoticed in the change-blindness paradigm.
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    • 2.Change blindness effects are consistent with consciousness being present but limited to gist-level content.
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    PerceptionConsciousness & Mind

    Key Terms

    attention(Lockean view; attention is a subset-determining process within consciousness)
    A process that constitutes conscious thinking when conscious thinking occurs in a certain way
    change blindness(Discussed as empirical evidence bearing on whether consciousness requires attention.)
    A phenomenon in which observers fail to notice changes to a visual scene, used as a paradigm for studying the relationship between attention and consciousness.
    consciousness(Philosophy of mind; framing the 'What is consciousness?' question)
    A dynamic process characterized by self-transforming flow, intentional coherence, and semantic self-understanding, rather than a static or momentary state.
    gist(Used in the context of psychological justification for semantic primitive decomposition)
    The core meaning or substance of a passage retained in memory after exact wording is forgotten

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    It is only narratively insignificant differences that go unnoticed in the change-blindness paradigm. Change blindness effects might therefore be taken as showing, not that there is no consciousness in the absence of attention, but that there is consciousness in the absence of attention, the contents of which are restricted to the scene’s overall gist. There are difficulties in adjudicating between these two interpretations experimentally. When features of gist do seem to be perceived, in the app
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    Subjects' consistent reports of 'something changed' without identifying what cha...
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