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    Challenges→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.

    Change blindness effects are consistent with consciousness being present but limited to gist-level content.

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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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