| John Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | |||||
| Book | Page | Topic | |||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 93 | Structure of consciousness and neurobiology. | |||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 100 | Gestalt structure -- our conscious experiences do not just come to us as a disorganized mess; rather they typically come to us with well defined and sometimes even precise structures. | 7 | ||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 100 | Gestalt psychologists found that the brain has the capacity to take degenerates stimuli and organize them into coherent wholes. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 100 | Brain has the ability to take a constant stimulus and treat it as either one perception or another in gestalt switching. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 100 | The famous "duck-rabbit" example, can be perceived as either a duck or a rabbit. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 100 | The drawing of the left-hand figure does not physically resemble a human face, but nonetheless, you will perceive it as it face because the brain organizes the degenerate stimulus into a coherent whole. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 100 | The gestalt structure not only organizes our perceptions into coherent wholes, it distinguishes between the figures that we perceive and the backgrounds that are suppressed. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 100 | There are thus to aspects to the gestalt structure of consciousness: (1) the capacity of the brain to organize perceptions into coherent wholes, (2) the capacity of the brain to discriminate figures from backgrounds. | 0 | ||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 107 | Binocular rivalry and Gestalt switching. | 7 | ||
| Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction | 108 | It seems very difficult to try to study massive amounts of synchronized neuron firings that might produce consciousness in large portions of the brain such as the thalamocortical system. | 1 | ||
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