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From unconscious to conscious perception, following Leibniz

Norman Sieroka

pp. 106-119

Abstract

In the previous chapters I have introduced Leibniz's principle of continuity and have already mentioned his assumption of a continuous accumulation process of unnoticeable perceptions which somehow gives rise to, or results in, noticeable and conscious perceptual states. Then the discussion of the readiness potential (Libet's experiment) served as a first brief illustration for a neurophysiological analog of such an accumulation process. In the present chapter this accumulation process and the involved transitions between different types of perceptual states will now be examined more closely.

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Sieroka Norman (2015) Leibniz, Husserl and the brain. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 106-119

DOI: 10.1057/9781137454560_5

Full citation:

Sieroka Norman (2015) From unconscious to conscious perception, following Leibniz, In: Leibniz, Husserl and the brain, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 106–119.