DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25102859 ISSN: 0140-525X
Postdiction and the speed of consciousness
Ian PhillipsAbstract
A central plank of Fleming and Michel’s thought-provoking paper is that postdiction reveals a lower bound for the speed of consciousness, showing that perceptual awareness is slow and motivating their perceptual reality monitoring theory of consciousness. The plank cannot bear the weight: Postdiction neither demonstrates a lower bound for the speed of consciousness nor shows that awareness is slow.