La conciencia no fluye: pulsa Sobre el mito de la continuidad
Revista Multidisciplinar Epistemología de las Ciencias April 14, 2026 Eduardo Piza
Consciousness is not a continuous flow but an intermittent phenomenon that emerges in pulses under specific neurobiological, narrative, and social conditions. Evidence from physics and mathematics questions the assumption of continuity, while neuroscience findings—including global broadcast models and the attentional blink—show conscious experience as a discontinuous composition rather than a homogeneous stream. Philosophical perspectives such as the multiple-drafts model and neurophenomenology recast the self not as a substance but as a functional model and narrative construction. Identity and freedom therefore cannot rely on a persistent soul but must be understood as practices of memory, deliberation, and care sustained by symbolic frameworks and institutions. This view replaces the metaphysical promise of permanence with a secular, finite ethics of intermittence.