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    Challenges→Empirical evidence for perception in the near absence of attention provides only inconclusive support for the hypothesis that attention and consciousness are dissociable.

    Experimenters can claim only to have demonstrated perception in the 'near absence' of attention, not full inattention.

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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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