Authors clarify viral 'frame rate of consciousness' paper: no fixed frame rate shown
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-19
The paper by doristsao's team went viral for being read as showing 'consciousness has a frame rate,' and the authors are pushing back in four points.
Key clarifications: - They have NOT shown that 'consciousness has a frame rate'; the misreading stems from their finding that during binocular rivalry, inferotemporal and prefrontal cortex alternate between conscious and suppressed states roughly every 60 ms; - Consciousness depends on many brain areas, and the paper only reports a few selected nodes; - How conscious access actually works—the real recipe for generating conscious experience—remains unknown; - What they did show is an extremely strong deep-brain signal rich enough to reconstruct a high-dimensional face in detail.
Related event: Neuroscientist Doris Tsao Clarifies Consciousness 'Frame Rate' Paper(3 posts)→
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