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    Consciousness is discontinuous, despite appearing continuous — Carmelics
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    Consciousness is discontinuous, despite appearing continuous

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    • 1.The blind spot demonstrates a discontinuity in visual experience
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    • 2.Saccadic gaps demonstrate further discontinuities in visual experience
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    • 3.The apparent continuity of consciousness is an appearance that masks underlying discontinuity
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    • 1.The blind spot and saccadic gaps are filled in by neural completion processes that are themselves constitutive of experience, not mere illusions masking it.
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    • 2.Dennett's 'multiple drafts' model shows that distinguishing 'real' discontinuity from 'apparent' continuity presupposes a Cartesian theater no serious physicalist can accept.
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    • 3.If the completion process is part of consciousness itself, the discontinuity/continuity distinction collapses rather than vindicating discontinuity.
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    • 1.Husserl's phenomenology of inner time-consciousness demonstrates that retention and protention structurally bind temporal moments into a unified flowing stream irreducible to discrete snapshots.
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    • 2.The argument from blind spots conflates the spatial structure of the retina with the temporal structure of consciousness, which are distinct levels of analysis.
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    Dennett points out that there is alternative to this account. Rather than ‘making up’ experience in this manner, perhaps our brains simply fail to notice that there is a lack of visual information deriving from the hole-region: after all, an absence of information is not the same thing as information about an absence. Never having received information from this region, the brain simply works on the assumption that nothing special is going on there: ‘The brain doesn’t have to “fill in” for the bl
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