Some people think that change blindness exposes a philosophical dilemma: After the image has changed color, are you still experiencing red (even though it’s now purple), or are you now experiencing purple, in which case what were you experiencing before, given that you didn’t experience any change? The resolution is to deny the premise of the question and to recognize that perception of change is not the same as change of perception. The experience of change is another perceptual inference, another variety of controlled hallucination.
