I agree that the line of thought I was sketching is hard to test. But I call your attention to the last sentence of the article: "A breakthrough will be needed for progress, and failing to recognize that a breakthrough is needed may not be conducive to nding it."

There are a couple of paragraphs that are supposed to be a reply to this point

I’d be glad to do that

Hmmm…my reply is somewhat similar drive.google.com/file/d/1cIUk...

Hilarious!

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Yes and the opposite makes much more sense. To get a conscious state you need a carefully orchestrated group of events but if any one of them goes wrong you fail to get consciousness. Many of those misfires will be unconscious so that is why there are more ways of having an unconscious state

They don’t mention the dorsal visual system which is adapted to fast motor responses

since @neddo.bsky.social & i so rarely agree on anything other than restaurant choices, this is possibly legit

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I should add that even though we do offer a possible alternative reading of the data to the one offered by @andreablomkvist.bsky.social, her work on aphantasia remains some of the best on the subject. If you’re interested in the topic, you should read her work. bsky.app/profile/hakw...