You can DO them consciously but that doesn't necessarily mean that you can intentionally become conscious of the ones you are doing unconsciously.
Try cutting a hole in a piece of paper and moving it smoothly across another page that has text on it. When your eye tracks the smoothly moving page, what appears through the hole is a blur. Josh On Monday 22 October 2007 10:23:12 pm, Russell Wallace wrote: > On 10/23/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Still don't buy it. Saccades are normally well below the conscious level, and > > a vast majority of what goes on cognitively is not available to > > introspection. Any good reader gets to the point where the sentence meanings, > > not the words at all, are the only thing that breaks into the conscious > > level. (you can read with essentially complete semantic comprehension and > > still be quite unable to repeat any of the text verbatim.) > > Sure, but saccades and word recognition are like breathing - normally > they operate subconsciously, but you can become aware and take control > of them if you so choose. Again this isn't abstruse theory - try it > and see, the experiment can be done in seconds. > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > > ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=56519427-089861
