In a recent article by Block [1], different interpretations of the classical Sperling experiment [2] were discussed. In this experiment, subjects were only able to report letters from one of three rows. However, with post-stimulus cueing, subjects could report whatever row they were asked. Block [1] interprets the experiment to show that conscious experience overflows the amount of information that is attended and available in working memory. The suggestion that ‘we experience seeing the entire display of letters, yet we report only a limited amount’ appears so intuitively true that it seems difficult to disagree.