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Structure of consciousness and
neurobiology. |
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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. |
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Gestalt psychologists found that
the brain has the capacity to take degenerates stimuli and organize them into
coherent wholes. |
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Brain has the ability to take a
constant stimulus and treat it as either one perception or another in gestalt
switching. |
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The famous
"duck-rabbit" example, can be perceived as either a duck or a
rabbit. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Binocular rivalry and Gestalt
switching. |
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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
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