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No bridge over the stream of consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Daniel C. Dennett
Affiliation:
Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155 [email protected] www.tufts.edu/as.cogstud/mainpg.htm

Abstract

Pessoa et al.'s target article shows that although filling-in of various kinds does appear to occur in the brain, it is not required in order to furnish a “bridge locus” where neural events are “isomorphic” to the features of visual consciousness. Some recently uncovered completion phenomena may well play a crucial role in the elaboration of normal visual experience, but others occur too slowly to contribute to normal visual content.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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