1/12 A thread on whether perception is discrete, an idea Varela, Rosch & I discussed in The Embodied Mind (72-79) and I covered in Waking, Dreaming, Being (40-45). I blogged about this at @philofbrains a while agohttp://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/07/29/is-consciousness-a-stream.aspx …
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11/12 TLDR there's increasing evidence for periodic modulation of perceptual content based on endogenous neural rhythms. But it's not so clear this evidence supports discrete temporal perceptual frames (see White's review)
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12/12 Coda: William James was right: consciousness flows, but it's not a uniform flow; it has inner rhythms. Whether it's also discrete (as Abhidharmikas held) is an open question
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Indeed, Dr
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