Sentences with phrase «perceptual conscious experiences»

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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.

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.