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It’s Not a ‘Stream’ of Consciousness
In 1890, the American psychologist William James famously likened our conscious experience to the flow of a stream. “A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described,” he wrote.
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And when this goes wrong,very strange things happen, like people seeing the world as if through a strobe, or not moving at all.