Waking Up in a Strange Place

What Do We Know?

Knowledge and Experience

Chapter 2: How Is Your Experience?

The Dimensions of Visual Experience

Limits of Perceptual Complexity

The Dimensions of Color Experience

A Quantified Phenomenology

Physicalist v.s. Phenomenalist Perspective

Spatial v.s. Symbolic Knowledge

Other Sensory Modalities

Sensory Confluence in the Amodal Percept

Chapter 3: The Experience of Self and Non-Self

The Epistemological Quest

Is Experience Viewed From A Point?

The Displaced Self

The Modal Viewpoint

Chapter 4: Epistemological Considerations

Realism v.s. Idealism

Varieties of Idealism

Is External Reality Knowable?

The Paradox of Time

Representationalism

Chapter 5: Ontological Considerations

Monism v.s. Dualism

The Hard Problem of Consciousness

Contents and Qualia

Space and Time are Qualia Too

Is Experience Universal?

Jacob's Ladder: A Thought Experiment

Functionalist Explanations of Consciousness

Parts and Wholes

Chapter 6: There is Something Wrong with My Picture!

The Phenomenon of Perspective

Size Constancy

A Bounded Representation

Other Visual Glitches and Anomalies

Dizziness

Sleep and Dreams

The Missing Hemifield Phenomenon

Peripheral Vision

Is Experience Unitary or Fragmentary?

Parallel Streams of Consciousness

The Unity of Consciousness

Sequential Logical Thought

Dichotic Listening

Binocular Scission

The Nose On Your Face

Signal and Noise

Chapter 7: Sensory v.s. Epistemic Perception

Epistemic Perception

Completion by Symmetry

Pattern Completion in Three Dimensions

Completion Behind the Head

Abstraction as Derivative, Reification as Integral

General Function of Perception

Chapter 8: Perception, Art, and Mathematics

A Dichotomy in Human Knowledge

Analogical versus Discrete

A Geometry of Perception

The Axioms of Perceptimetry

The Smooth Surface

The Planar Surface

The Corner

The Platonic Solids

Representation by Reification

Analogical versus Logical Thought

Analogical Thought in Mathematics

Regularization in Art

Factoring Combined Patterns of Regularity

Categorical Quantization

Music, Art, and Mathematics

Visual Pathologies and Hallucination

Chapter 9: Harmonic Resonance in the Brain

Harmonic Resonance Theory

What Is Harmonic Resonance?

Higher Harmonics of Spherical Symmetry

Static-Dynamic Energy Structures

Nodes as Features

One-Dimensional Resonances

Resonance Energy

Evolutionary Implications

Spiking Neurons & Chemical Synapses

Chapter 10: The Perception of Time

An Analogical Principle of Representation

Bounded Space, Bounded Time

Motion Perception

Predicting Collisions

More Complex Paths

Unpredictable Motion

Ego Motion

Temporal Closure

Chapter 11: A Quest for Meaning

Discovered and Revealed Knowledge

Meaning in the Universe

The Unity of All Things

Everything is Relative

A Scientific Morality

A Quest for Meaning