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Rich Experience and Sparse Awareness: Sensing More Than We Know

Rich Experience and Sparse Awareness: Sensing More Than We Know

Hardcover

Series: Elements in Perception

General Psychology

ISBN10: 1009757105
ISBN13: 9781009757102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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Berlinger, Ariel Meir

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