Scientific Understanding of Consciousness
Consciousness as an Emergent Property of Thalamocortical Activity

Gestalt Perception

 

Here are a few examples of Gestalt closure.

Mathematical Gestalts

Mathematical intelligence may exhibit mathematical Gestalts.

Mathematicians may get a hunch that something is correct, yet not be able to verbalize why. They may then resort to formal, more serial and language-like theorems to prove the case, and these seem to require conscious processing. (Rolls; Emotion Explained, 403)

 

 

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