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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Phenomenology
  • Philosophy of Mind

Background:

  • The debate on consciousness is dominated by bottom-up emergence, hindering efforts to bridge the explanatory gap.
  • Scientific research on vision struggles to reconcile objective methods with subjective experience.
  • Gestalt psychology's insights have been largely absorbed into cognitive neuroscience, neglecting core phenomenological aspects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze vision as an undivided whole, addressing the nature of consciousness as self-referentiality.
  • To propose an alternative framework for understanding phenomenal consciousness beyond the focus on individual percepts.
  • To clarify the relationships between phenomenology, psychophysics, and neuroscience.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental phenomenology building on Gestalt psychology principles.
  • Analysis of subjective experience in vision, including amodal contours, color, light perception, and spatial/temporal aspects.
  • Discussion of basic dimensions of phenomenal consciousness through an experimental lens.

Main Results:

  • Experimental phenomenology yields new results in areas like amodal contours, color, and subjective space-time.
  • Existing research, while informing neuroscience, has not directly addressed consciousness as self-referentiality.
  • The study suggests a novel approach to analyzing the non-detachability of parts in subjective experience.

Conclusions:

  • A mind-set reversal is proposed to analyze seeing as an undivided whole, offering a way to escape the limitations of current approaches.
  • This approach sheds light on the interdependence of phenomenology, psychophysics, and neuroscience.
  • Understanding consciousness requires addressing its self-referential nature, moving beyond mere analysis of percepts.