Experiments · Conscious Selection

Heated molecules lose their fringes

Hackermüller and colleagues, Nature, 2004. The visibility curve here is a sketch following the chapter: fringes survive up to about 1,500 K and fade out by 3,000 K.

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Conscious Selection · Chapter 6

What Outlives the Gaze

In all the previous chapters selection had a steward. The eye belonged to a person, the memory belonged to a person, the model of the world belonged to an organism, and every time there was someone whose question decided what would get high quality and…

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