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Fish see further than you might think

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2026

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Colin Allen*
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University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Philosophy, Santa Barbara, USA colinallen@ucsb.edu https://colinallen.dnsalias.org/
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Abstract

Fleming and Michel argue that consciousness lags up to 450 ms behind the world. I argue that the “aquatic sensory volume” for objects ecologically relevant for fish lies outside this window. If “reality monitoring” is an important function of consciousness, it likely evolved well before the transition to land in the vertebrate lineage.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 49 , 2026 , e163
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