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In a highly stimulating, unorthodox inquiry that cuts across many disciplines, experimental psychologist Humphrey argues that raw sensation, not thought, is the central fact of consciousness. Furthermore, he claims, mental activities other than the five senses enter consciousness only when accompanied by "reminders" of sensation, as with mental imagery. Humphrey ( Consciousness Regained ) posits two separate channels of the mind--one for sensation or subjective feelings, another for perception or objective knowledge of the external world. These two channels are said to employ very different styles of information processing: "analog" processing of sensations leads to pictorial images, while "digital" processing of perception yields propositions. Lightening his often technical discussion with thought experiments, drawings and illustrative examples from authors ranging from Lewis Carroll to Aldous Huxley, Humphrey sketches an evolutionary history of the mind, from ameboid wriggles in the primeval soup onward. Conscious feeling, he stresses, is a form of intentional doing, creating the thick moment of the subjective present.
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Daniel Dennett
"A wonderful book-brilliant, unsettling, and beautifully written. Humphrey cuts bravely across the currents of contemporary thinking, opening up new vistas on old problems and offering a feast of provocative ideas. Nobody else brings such an astonishing range of knowledge to bear on these issues."

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Everything that is interesting in nature happens at the boundaries: the surface of the earth, the membrane of a cell, the moment of catastrophe, the start and finish of a life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cerebral sentiments, visual sentiments, adverbial style, pure perceptual knowledge, reconstructed stimulus, surrogate location, real body surface, red sentiments, sentiment occurring, pain sentiments, perceptual center, double province, surface stimulus, retinal stimulus, sensory center, inner model, light arriving, outgoing signal, purple cow, phantom sensations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lewis Carroll, Aldous Huxley, Father William, Grand Old Duke of York, Ray Jackendoff, Rouen Cathedral, Thomas Traherne New!
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