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.
Bell is often
associated with Light and Space, a group of mostly West Coast artists whose work is primarily concerned with
perceptual experience stemming from the viewer's interaction with their work.