Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Moments of Truth
- 2 Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
- 3 Apprehending Pristine Experience
- 4 Everyday Experience
- 5 Moments Are Essential
- 6 Experience in Tourette's Syndrome
- 7 The Moment (Not): Happy and Sad
- 8 Subjunctification
- 9 Before and After Experience? Adolescence and Old Age
- 10 Iteration Is Essential
- 11 Epistemological Q/A
- 12 A Consciousness Scientist as DES Subject
- 13 Pristine Experience (Not): Emotion and Schizophrenia
- 14 Multiple Autonomous Experience in a Virtuoso Musician
- 15 Unsymbolized Thinking
- 16 Sensory Awareness
- 17 The Radical Non-subjectivity of Pristine Experience
- 18 Diamonds versus Glass
- 19 Into the Floor: A Right-or-Wrong-Answer Natural Experiment
- 20 The Emergence of Salient Characteristics
- 21 Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Appendix: List of Constraints
- References
- Index
16 - Sensory Awareness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Moments of Truth
- 2 Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
- 3 Apprehending Pristine Experience
- 4 Everyday Experience
- 5 Moments Are Essential
- 6 Experience in Tourette's Syndrome
- 7 The Moment (Not): Happy and Sad
- 8 Subjunctification
- 9 Before and After Experience? Adolescence and Old Age
- 10 Iteration Is Essential
- 11 Epistemological Q/A
- 12 A Consciousness Scientist as DES Subject
- 13 Pristine Experience (Not): Emotion and Schizophrenia
- 14 Multiple Autonomous Experience in a Virtuoso Musician
- 15 Unsymbolized Thinking
- 16 Sensory Awareness
- 17 The Radical Non-subjectivity of Pristine Experience
- 18 Diamonds versus Glass
- 19 Into the Floor: A Right-or-Wrong-Answer Natural Experiment
- 20 The Emergence of Salient Characteristics
- 21 Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Appendix: List of Constraints
- References
- Index
Summary
Careful examination of pristine experience will reveal moments such as the following:
Example 1: Andrew is dialing his cell phone. At the moment, he has just “zeroed in” on the shiny blueness of the brushed aluminum phone case. He is not, at that moment, paying attention to the number he is dialing; his experience has momentarily left that task (which continues as if on autopilot) to be absorbed in the shiny blueness.
Example 2: Betty is in conversation with her friend Wendy, and as Wendy speaks, Betty takes a sip of Dr. Pepper. At that moment, Betty is drawn to the coldness of the liquid as it moves through her throat. Wendy continues to talk, but Wendy's voice is not part of Betty's experience; Betty is focused on the coldness in her throat.
Example 3: Carol's friend Candy is telling Carol how to log on to a computer Web site. Carol is paying attention to the sweetly longish a sound in Candy's slight drawl; at that moment, Carol is not paying attention to what Candy is saying about the log-on procedure.
Example 4: Damian is checking out at the grocery store, and at the moment is noticing a twinge in the back of his neck – a slight stabbing sensation. He is in the act of putting three candy bars on the conveyer, but at that moment he is not at all noticing candy bars, the checker's activity, or anything else in his environment – his attention is occupied by the neck sensation.
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- Investigating Pristine Inner ExperienceMoments of Truth, pp. 309 - 324Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011