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BS 196 Consciousness with Hakwan Lau

Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

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Is Inflation a Valuable Alternative to the Filling In?

Inflation is an alternative to the filling in, explanation for why we don't see things like the blind spot. We inflate and fool ourselves into believing how much we actually see in the periphery. And so thereis a sense that things are inflated. But you can also do inflation and just basically write a statement, you trust me, i've done a lot of work. Just pay me lie. If you have a very understanding boss, you can do that. It just bluff and untili convince yorself that you have some details there. Inflation trivializes the distinction between attention and consciousness. You almost have a relationship with your peripheral vision which has lack of intensity but high intensity

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