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Conscious vision: Why wait?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2026

Joost de Jong Open the ORCID record for Joost de Jong [Opens in a new window]
Joost de Jong*
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INCC, CNRS UMR 8002, Université de Paris Cité / CNRS, Paris, France dejongejoost@gmail.com
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Abstract

Fleming and Michel convincingly argue that the water-to-land transition put evolutionary pressure on the temporal structure of conscious vision. But their interpretation of postdictive effects, which leads them to conclude that conscious vision is slow, suffers from conceptual issues and inadvertently leads them to an overly discrete and serial model of temporal consciousness.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 49 , 2026 , e174
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press

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