Sentences with phrase «own perceptual experiences»

Phenomenological accounts assume that first - person perceptual experience - tokens are more certainly known than any inference about their external causes.

Nevertheless, the immanence of actual entities is not a peculiarity of perceptual experience, but is universal throughout nature.

It is true that he very frequently discusses his doctrine within the context of perception, and one of the ways to the theory, probably the dominant one, was through the analysis of perceptual experience.

«96 P. Wright defines symbol as «a relatively stable and repeatable element of perceptual experience, standing for some larger meaning or set of meanings which can not be given or not fully given, in perceptual experience.

«97 In the light of this definition, a symbol gives a perceptual experience otherwise not possible.

Yet, it is only a representation of the totality of the larger meaning, which is not subject to perceptual experience in its entirety.

Mathematical continuity and its relation to perceptual experience.

This is why those who have recently revived the notion of visual experience, such as John Searle and Christopher Peacocke, have broken away from the traditional story about the awareness of visual sense - data, in favor of the view that perceptual experience has propositional content (Searle) or representational content (Peacocke).2

The rejoinder to Hume consists principally in offering a reductive analysis of the sort of perceptual experience upon which Hume's (and Russell's) empiricism is based.

Illusion is now thought to be omnipresent in definite, conscious perceptual experience — yet the dichotomy between physical objects and illusions was introduced to express observable differences within the field of conscious perception.

About four in 10 say they have unusual perceptual experiences between sleep and awareness if you interview them about their sleeping habits.

Another point arises from these two passages last cited: the very fact of there being a nature for our knowing is a resultant of the percipient's activity in investing his perceptual experience with externality.

The constants are characteristics of a perceptual experience when we assign to it the property of being an observation of the passage of external nature, not «when it is given as an observation of the passage of external nature.»

«The Data of Science,» begins with a sentence which certainly seems to support my suggestion that Whitehead strongly favors phenomenalism: «Our perceptual knowledge of nature consists in the breaking up of a whole which is the subject matter of perceptual experience, or is the given presentation which is experience — or however else we prefer to describe the ultimate experienced fact» (PNK 59).

As we have seen Merleau - Ponty puts it, «if I wanted to render precisely the perceptual experience, I ought to say that one perceives in me, and not that I perceive» (PP 215).

Nevertheless, it is clear that regarding the status of nature, conceived as the object of perceptual experience, Whitehead is closer to a phenomenalistic position than to a naïve - realistic one:

But within the scope of the Enquiry, without the constants of externality (the third, fourth, and fifth, that is),»... our perceptual experience appears as a disconnected dream» (PNK 78).

Nature is what is given in perceptual experience, and a duration is that complete event which is the whole of nature simultaneous with a given percipient event (itself part of the whole)(PNK 68).

I suggest that the word choke here is not accidental:»... perceptual experience... given presentation... experience... ultimate experienced fact.»

To the viewer, it may seem as though these dynamic perceptual experiences arise because the object is itself changing.

It's very refreshing to read that people with eccentric, novel and even schizophrenic ways of thinking are often very high functioning, talented, intelligent individuals who can use their strange perceptual experiences to access beauty, originality and creativity.

This can make it difficult to remember the event as a coherent story, instead imprinting it in memory as a raw set of perceptual experiences: the flash of headlights and the grinding of metal, say.

But I have terrible news for anyone who thinks so: We can get rid of our entire prefrontal cortex and still have unified perceptual experiences.

A new study by Irene Senna from Bielefeld University's Center of Excellence CITEC and her colleagues reports a surprising bodily illusion demonstrating how we can rapidly update our assumptions about the material qualities of our bodies based on recent multisensory perceptual experience.

There is no question that the great specificity of any one conscious perceptual experience — such as the throbbing pain of the socket following extraction of the lower right wisdom tooth, the feeling of familiarity in dj vu, the aha experience of sudden understanding, the azure blue of a high mountain vista, the despair at reading about one more suicide bombing — is mediated by coalitions of synchronized cortical nerve cells and their associated targets in the satellites of the cortex, thalamus, amygdala, claustrum and basal ganglia.

«We hope to use this illusion as a tool to uncover why peripheral vision seems so rich and detailed, and more generally, to understand how the brain creates our visual perceptual experiences.»

My own biases point me toward the coming surge of inexpensive, ubiquitous, accessible human enhancements — from prosthetics that enhance our motor outputs to sensory input devices that will give us entirely new perceptual experiences.

Heard a guy at the gallery tell some other guy at the gallery that the stuff is «ecological» and that, um, Tara «repositions perceptual experience... «in a practice that has appeared until now largely materially driven and in the service of organic allusion»».

It has been described as a neurological occurrence that mixes and matches the different senses so that perceptual experience and information are one.

Paradoxically the subdivisions of the surface create the unity of the field and of the perceptual experience.

They celebrate, equally, that part of humanity that is the scientist attempting to understand and ground perceptual experience, and the matrix of human sensation that approaches the emotional, spiritual, or perhaps simply the unexplainable.

To those who would argue a loss of sentience in the perceptual experience, there is perhaps a corresponding heightened lucidity.

Color relationships can privilege perceptual experience of sensation beyond the associative and significatory readings.

The work's title hints at the uncertain perceptual experience that is created with nothing but «invisible» and «magic» Scotch tape.

She uses striking color combinations in strategic compositions to create artworks that provide perceptual experiences of charged energy.

By shifting the work's construction in this way, Wheeler provides an effective counterpoint to his own practice and deepens our perceptual experience.»

Over more than four decades, Fred Eversley has produced a singular body of work that considers materials, light, and the optical qualities of shapes and colors as part of a broad investigation of individual perceptual experience.

Focusing on the perceptual experience of space, the exhibition offers opportunities for discovering public architectural features and galleries throughout the newly expanded building.

One thing seems to connect his activities: the relationship between language and perceptual experience in the field of art.

November 20, 2009 — February 21, 2010 Amy Hauft combines shifts in scale and perspective, the arcane craft of sculpting sugar, art - historical references, and metaphor to create a rich perceptual experience for viewers of her installation.

Kasten has also created video installations in which patterns of light and shadow are projected onto mirrors, spilling across the gallery space and transforming it into a total perceptual experience.

For both Porsager and Besant, «thought forms» are ineffable products of perceptual experience — impossible to define.

Mirza uses simple industrial materials to radically transform the perceptual experience of architectural space.

Combining video, animation, light sculpture and interactive media, the exhibition takes the metaphor of «the voyage» as a starting point for an exploration into the ways contemporary artists are expanding on the human perceptual experience.

The boundaries of our perceptual experience have expanded in our contemporary world.

New lenses of mediated screens and surfaces have challenged our perceptual experience in contemporary society, as we must constantly navigate between real and virtual dimensions, or accept that these are increasingly one and the same.»

In each work, he seeks to create an atmosphere that will draw the viewer into an intense and sometimes disorienting perceptual experience.

Says the artist of his technique, «when designing my work the goal is to create a unique and rewarding perceptual experience for viewers through artworks that are intellectually challenging and technically intriguing.

Rather, the work of Be Here Now takes the perceptual experience of the gallery institution's material and architectural infrastructure as a starting point.

And Kamau Amu Patton synthesizes works in a range of media to investigate the inter-zone of sound, materiality, and perceptual experience.