Rich Experience and Sparse Awareness: Sensing More Than We Know (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009757102)

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.

Author: Ariel Meir Berlinger,Baruch Eitam
ISBN-10: 1009757105
ISBN-13: 9781009757102
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2026
Pages: 96
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d