Rich experience and sparse awareness : sensing more than we know / Ariel Meir Berlinger, Baruch Eitam

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berlinger, Ariel Meir, 1997- author.

Eitam, Baruch, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in perception

Cambridge elements. Elements in perception, 2515-0502

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Consciousness.

cognition.

Medical Subjects:

Cognition.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Consciousness is often treated as unitary phenomenon. We challenge this and propose a framework that parses it into two functionally distinct representational media. Reviewing dominant theories, as well as studies of perceptual failures, neural activity, visual search and attention – we argue that phenomenal experience arises early as a detailed, analogue, and relatively generic representation of the physical world. Awareness, a later and more idiosyncratic representation of the world, results from enriching phenomenal experience via relevance-filtered semantic knowledge. This Multi-Representational Media (MRM) account unifies perception, memory, and cognition, reconciles rich and sparse consciousness views, and reframes concepts in unconscious cognition research"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Framing the problem

Empirical puzzles : what we see is not always what there is

The current theoretical landscape

The selective mind : from past to present

The motivational relevance of an active representation (ROAR)

Back to the early versus late consciousness debate : positioning phenomenal experience relative to the selection bottleneck(s)

Bridging the gap : why keep the baby but change the bathwater?

Rich versus poor consciousness

Putting Humpty Dumpty together again : getting to the multi-representational-media model

Coda and novelty

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed June 30, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Berlinger, Ariel Meir, 1997- Rich experience and sparse awareness

ISBN:

9781009757126

1009757121

9781009757072

1009757075

OCLC:

1587116251

Publisher Number:

CIPO000368741

CIPO000381833

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license