DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25102823 ISSN: 0140-525X

Formation versus vulcanization of perception

Ned Block
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Abstract

The target article maintains that consciousness emerged only when slow perceptual processing would be useful. But the formation of a conscious percept could be fast even if the vulcanization of that percept is slow. And fast formation may be too fast for a higher-order pointer to form.

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