DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25102987 ISSN: 0140-525X
Fish see further than you might think
Colin AllenAbstract
Fleming and Michel argue that consciousness lags up to 450 ms behind the world. I argue that the “aquatic sensory volume” for objects ecologically relevant for fish lies outside this window. If “reality monitoring” is an important function of consciousness, it likely evolved well before the transition to land in the vertebrate lineage.