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1University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Philosophy, Santa Barbara, USA colinallen@ucsb.edu https://colinallen.dnsalias.org/.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|June 24, 2026
Abstract:
Fleming and Michel argue that consciousness lags up to 450 ms behind the world. I argue that the "aquatic sensory volume" for objects ecologically relevant for fish lies outside this window. If "reality monitoring" is an important function of consciousness, it likely evolved well before the transition to land in the vertebrate lineage.
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