2/12 It's an old idea -- that consciousness is discrete -- found in the Indian Buddhist Abhidharma philosophy https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abhidharma/ …
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Thanks for a nice thread! Here is a recent and different theory of discrete perception by our lab (Herzog et al.) https://tinyurl.com/sll2myn . Fekete et al. replied, arguing for continuous theories https://tinyurl.com/typws8r And we responded to their criticism https://tinyurl.com/v8k74a6 .
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Thanks! I know the original paper but not the criticism and reply.
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1' It's anecdotal but I recall hearing years ago some sensory psychologists were testing visual discrimination in some Theravadin monks (monks who of course will have been schooled in the Abhidhammic teaching of discrete "dhammas" as building block perception-events).
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2' The experimenters used a tachistoscope to flash successive lights very quickly to see if the monks could tell when it was just 1 light or 2 very close together (i.e., looking at "just noticeable differences").
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Dear Professor
@evantthompson Very important thread on "perception and embodied mind." I will later connect you with email. Best regardsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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