A report on Consciousness and Experience

Representation of consciousness from the seventeenth century by Robert Fludd, an English Paracelsian physician
John Locke, British Enlightenment philosopher from the 17th century
Illustration of dualism by René Descartes. Inputs are passed by the sensory organs to the pineal gland and from there to the immaterial spirit.
Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat." (Townsend's big-eared bat pictured).
John Searle in December 2005
The Necker cube, an ambiguous image
A Buddhist monk meditating
Neon color spreading effect. The apparent bluish tinge of the white areas inside the circle is an illusion.
Square version of the neon spread illusion

Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these conscious processes.

- Experience

Today, it often includes any kind of cognition, experience, feeling or perception.

- Consciousness
Representation of consciousness from the seventeenth century by Robert Fludd, an English Paracelsian physician

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The Thinker by Rodin (1840–1917), in the garden of the Musée Rodin

Thought

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The Thinker by Rodin (1840–1917), in the garden of the Musée Rodin
Man thinking on a train journey

In their most common sense, the terms thought and thinking refer to conscious cognitive processes that can happen independently of sensory stimulation.

Phenomenology is the science of the structure and contents of experience.

The Necker cube and Rubin vase can be perceived in more than one way.

Perception

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Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

Organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

The Necker cube and Rubin vase can be perceived in more than one way.
Humans are able to have a very good guess on the underlying 3D shape category/identity/geometry given a silhouette of that shape. Computer vision researchers have been able to build computational models for perception that exhibit a similar behavior and are capable of generating and reconstructing 3D shapes from single or multi-view depth maps or silhouettes
Cerebrum lobes
Anatomy of the human ear. (The length of the auditory canal is exaggerated in this image).
Though the phrase "I owe you" can be heard as three distinct words, a spectrogram reveals no clear boundaries.
Law of Closure. The human brain tends to perceive complete shapes even if those forms are incomplete.

Perception depends on complex functions of the nervous system, but subjectively seems mostly effortless because this processing happens outside conscious awareness.

1) The Perceiver: a person whose awareness is focused on the stimulus, and thus begins to perceive it. There are many factors that may influence the perceptions of the perceiver, while the three major ones include (1) motivational state, (2) emotional state, and (3) experience. All of these factors, especially the first two, greatly contribute to how the person perceives a situation. Oftentimes, the perceiver may employ what is called a "perceptual defense," where the person will only see what they want to see.

Phenomenology (philosophy)

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Phenomenology (from Greek φαινόμενον, phainómenon "that which appears" and λόγος, lógos "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.

Mental state

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State of mind of a person.

State of mind of a person.

Consciousness-based approaches hold that all mental states are either conscious themselves or stand in the right relation to conscious states.

A mental state is conscious if it belongs to phenomenal experience.