Downgraded phenomenology: how conscious overflow lost its richness.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences September 19, 2018 Emily J Ward 20 citations
Although moment-to-moment experience of the world feels vivid and rich, visual awareness is actually quite sparse, as shown by phenomena like change blindness and inattentional blindness. When failures of memory or comparison are ruled out, these phenomena provide strong evidence against the idea of rich visual awareness. To account for such massive failures, any theory of phenomenal consciousness must downgrade phenomenology to a point where it is functionless or does not reflect what we actually experience.