Rich Experience and Sparse Awareness : Sensing More than We Know (Elements in Perception)

Berlinger, Ariel Meir/ Eitam, Baruch

Cambridge University Press（2026/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 75 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009757089

Full Description

Consciousness is often treated as unitary phenomenon. We challenge this and propose a framework that parses it into two functionally distinct representational media. Reviewing dominant theories, as well as studies of perceptual failures, neural activity, visual search and attention - we argue that phenomenal experience arises early as a detailed, analogue, and relatively generic representation of the physical world. Awareness, a later and more idiosyncratic representation of the world, results from enriching phenomenal experience via relevance-filtered semantic knowledge. This Multi-Representational Media (MRM) account unifies perception, memory, and cognition, reconciles rich and sparse consciousness views, and reframes concepts in unconscious cognition research.

Contents

1. Framing the problem; 2. Empirical puzzles: what we see is not always what there is; 3. The current theoretical landscape; 4. The selective mind: from past to present; 5. The motivational Relevance of an Active Representation (ROAR); 6. Back to the early versus late consciousness debate: positioning phenomenal experience relative to the selection bottleneck(s).; 7. Bridging the gap: why keep the baby but change the bathwater?; 8. Rich versus poor consciousness; 9. Putting humpty dumpty together again: getting to the multi-representational-media model; 10. Coda and novelty; 11. References.