John Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction
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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
Searle; Mind: A Brief Introduction