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“There is this idea that we look out into the world and see this ongoing flow of consciousness that has been compared to a stream,” says the paper’s lead author, Kyle Mathewson. “This evidence and other evidence are starting to show it might not be like that, it might be more discrete.” That is, “the brain can synchronize its waves of consciousness to predictable rhythmic events,” says coauthor Diane Beck.
U. ILLINOIS (US)—The term “stream of consciousness”—used both in the literary world and by psychologists to describe the way our conscious minds interpret the world—may not accurately depict the way visual systems in our brains function. Continue…
