Researcher Aran Nayebi: consciousness paper shows sustained dominance, not 'flickering'
aran_nayebi · x · 2026-10-19
MIT researcher Aran Nayebi pushed back on claims that a consciousness study establishes 'flickering' perception. His argument: the paper shows sustained dominance of one image over the other, but this doesn't refute the possibility of a stable 'conscious' persistent state.
To rule that out, he says the paper would need to show — in Fig. 1b (human behavior) and Fig. 4c (monkey neural data) — that a 'neither face is visible' response is selected at the 60 ms switches. He also noted the viral tweet and the paper's actual content diverge on this point.
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