Sentences with phrase «perceptual experience of»

Until now, however, the way how our human brain pursues and drafts our perceptual experience of being an entity floating somewhere in space remains unknown.

Assembly Required presents photographs, drawings, sculptures and paintings from the Studio Museum's permanent collection that explore the ways in which certain works are dependent on site, and the viewer's conceptual and perceptual experience of that locale through the artist's intervention.

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

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

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

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

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

Not exact matches

Because we have had these experiences and live with these developments and because these experiences and developments can not be erased or quarantined from our perceptual and analytical processes, we are not capable of developing an adequate or reasonable comprehension of ancient times, cultures and people.

With respect to perceptual events, subjective form refers «to the complex patterns we are aware of in direct experience» (PW 127/136).

Other times, as when he argues from the supposed uniformity of our perceptual field to the uniformity of the spatiotemporal continuum, Whitehead begins with direct experience (PW 217-21/240 -45).

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.

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.

When the troubled person finds himself or herself under the care of someone with accurate empathy, someone who seems able to enter another's perceptual framework, he or she experiences a profoundly liberating feeling of being known, being understood.

Sense - awareness disengages factors from the total flow of fact (PNK 59 - 60; CN 13; R 14), the content of primal experience, bringing to the fore two profiles (suggested AE 201) of total perceptual objects.

On the other hand, I would concur with James Felt that the thesis has a prima facie appeal to it because in that case one would be able to consider «the perceptual unities of ordinary experience as ontological unities» (PS 10:59).

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.

In the perceptual mode of presentational immediacy this process leads to the experience of the objective world as illusory.

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).

Over against the form / matter analysis of experience, there is intelligible perceptual organization of stimuli, and it comes about because perception is typically influenced by the presence of anticipation.

Further, (2) perceptual, bodily processes are basically unintelligible because, according to the classic «form / matter» analysis, experience consists of a synthesis of intrinsically meaningless physical sensations passively received via the sense - organs — the «matter» — together with an active, reflective, mental judgment — the «form» — which interprets them.

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:

For example, when a parent structures his perceptual field by being attuned to a possible cry from a new - born child, the infant is the source of the physical, causally efficacious feelings of the parent's experience.

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).

At the University of Virginia Health System's Division of Perceptual Studies, or DOPS, scientists are studying an array of anomalous phenomena, including near - death experiences, out - of - body experiences, and memories of past lives.

Even a lifetime of experience that a table is not part of your body is abandoned in light of the perceptual decision that it is.

Factors such as poor emotional control, limited coping skills, poor social functioning, and increased stress sensitivity increase a child's risk of experiencing psychotic - like symptoms (e.g., unusual thoughts, suspiciousness, perceptual disturbances).

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.

People may differ in the sensations they experience from a food or beverage, and these perceptual differences have a biological basis, explained John Hayes, assistant professor of food science and director of Penn State's Sensory Evaluation Center.

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.

This perceptual grouping based on synesthetic color is analogous to the kind of perceptual grouping non-synesthetes experience with real colors.

And so I did have an experience myself of having various perceptual powers released.

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.

Based upon their interviews, the researchers developed a taxonomy of 59 experiences organized into seven types, or «domains»: cognitive, perceptual, affective (i.e. emotions and moods), somatic (relating to the body), conative (i.e. motivation or will), sense of self and social.

«It's difficult to determine precisely why so many adults would experience less financial strain in 2010, but one possible explanation may be the perceptual nature of these evaluations,» she said.

«It suggests that the brains of people who hear voices are particularly tuned to meaning in sounds, and shows how unusual experiences might be influenced by people's individual perceptual and cognitive processes.»

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.

Her eloquent account flits between philosophy, science and anecdotes from the writing classes she runs for psychiatric patients, as well as her own experiences of those seizures, migraines, voices in her head and a heightened perceptual awareness.

Perhaps a third of long term (beyond 6 months) users experience symptoms and signs on attempting to withdraw — anxiety, insomnia, muscle spasms and tension and perceptual hypersensitivity.»

The examination of the properties of aesthetic experience reveals essential aspects of our perceptual, cognitive, and semiotic capacities.

As we carefully expose our puppies with positive experiences to new things during this time period their brains actually grow, creating new links to their cerebral cortex, the portion of the brain that creates learning, memory, and perceptual awareness.

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.