In our ASSC20 symposium, “Does unconscious perception really exist?”, the four of us asked some difficult questions about the purported phenomenon of unconscious perception, disagreeing on a number of points. This disagreement reflected the objective of the symposium: not only to come together to discuss a single topic of keen interest to the ASSC community, but to do so in a way that would...
Abstract To a remarkable extent philosophical (and indeed psychological) analyses of temporal experience are steeped in metaphor. Snapshot theorists declare that experience is atomized and fragmentary, packaged into isolated stills or slices, perhaps with motion ‘painted’ onto each static snapshot ( Crick & Koch, 2003 ). Extensionalists deny that experience, so conceived, could embrace...