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Although some have argued that consciousness unfolds in time as a succession of static frames, more or less like the single frames of a movie—even at specific frequencies, namely 10Hz and 40Hz (Van Rullen & Koch 2003).
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For this reason, I don’t quite understand why Melloni suggests that I am claiming that consciousness arises at a particular and fixed moment in time. My claim is only that it comes after feedforward processing, and as soon as recurrent processing emerges—which may vary.
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Of course there are visual percepts that are more or less defined by their temporal sequence, the prime example being motion. But this does not imply that the perception of motion is flowing. The first thing the brain does in detecting motion is to convert the flow of motion into a discrete and momentary signal, indistinguishable from how the brain represents other features such as orientation, color, or shape. As a result we see motion now, and instantaneously, which is also crucial for our survival: perceiving something moving in the shadows of a bush (e.g., a snake) needs to be translated into action as soon as possible (e.g., running away). No time for any flow there.