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quantum&subjective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The direct experience of meaning is, thus, an experience of a very possibility of such collation, that is experience of a possibility of "scanning" some fragments of past experience and comparison of the given actual element and these fragments. The experience of meaning of the word, from this point of view, is an experience of the possibility to display this meaning in the sequence of mental images, in other words, also possessing meanings and so on. Subjective meanings are the same objective meanings, connected with volitional and emotional "readiness to act in a certain way" in specific situations. ivanem.chat.ru /quantum&subjective.htm   (13265 words)

subjective - Definitions from Dictionary.com existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective). pertaining to the subject or substance in which attributes inhere; essential. pertaining to or constituting the subject of a sentence. dictionary.reference.com /browse/subjective   (430 words)

Nat' Academies Press, Learning, Remembering, Believing: Enhancing Human Performance (1994) The subjective experience of understanding material might be less reliable as a measure of comprehension than is a more objective test, for example, but it is critical nonetheless—because it is the basis on which people guide their own behavior and make judgments, such as whether further study is necessary. Subjects tended to use their own experiences in solving the anagrams as a basis for judging the difficulty of the anagrams for others—the correlations between speed of solving the anagrams and difficulty ratings were quite high. Experience in the setting that is the target of training serves to educate subjective experience of the learner as well as providing a measure of the effectiveness of training. www.nap.edu /books/0309049938/html/57.html   (9678 words)

Part 1: The Griund of Experience   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The extensional statement P is the formal equivalent of the awareness, experience or belief that P is the case. The occurrence of experience in subjective consciousness amounts to the proposition 'this object is not an object', where 'this object' refers to some element of experience as it is (pre-subjectively) apprehended to be part of the world. We accept the existence of objects-which-are-not-real precisely because we have the meta-domain of subjective experience in which to judge the reality of objects, just as we accept self-negating statements as non-paradoxical when they can be reformulated in terms of provability. www.island.net /~dbruiger/doc_html/11.html   (1498 words)

Subjective Knowledge Subjectivity is the most distinctive aspect of this view of the mind, and inherent in it. The experience that I call seeing red and the experience you call seeing red are related only in a very complicated way including, for example, effects of lighting, reflectance, viewpoint, and colored glasses. Subjective experience as the ultimate data is clear, but not the idea that it can be objectively compared across persons. www.cs.ualberta.ca /~sutton/IncIdeas/SubjectiveKnowledge.html   (1153 words)

The Objective Subjective   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Additionally I have removed the direct opposition between objective and subjective, necessarily so since the core of the thoughts discussed herein resides in the constructive combination of the terms in the phrase 'objective subjective' and since an important secondary theme is examination of the fallacious combination of the terms in the phrase 'subjective objective'. While experience is subjective because it is experienced by someone, such subjective experience is objective because it is the only experience possible. The trap of the subjective objective is to believe that one's subjective experience or opinions apply to the supposed exterior objective world; this is the common and destructive mistake of mankind. www.mindalive.org /OS.html   (1547 words)

Heeter: Being There: The subjective experience of presence.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Heeter: Being There: The subjective experience of presence. This paper offers a subjective explanation of presence in which the yardstick to measure presence is applied not to assessing how closely a virtual world mimics real world sensations, but instead to analyzing the kinds of evidence a virtual experience provides to participants that help convince them they are there. The effectiveness of the illusion of presence created by a virtual world can be partially assessed by studying visitors to virtual worlds' subjective experience of how much they feel like they are there and what makes them feel that way. www.temple.edu /ispr/abstracts/heeter92.html   (140 words)

The Dimensions of Conscious Experience   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) However the subjective conscious experience is a primary source of evidence for the nature of the representation in the brain. Dennett argues that the experience of a filled-in field of color in uniform fields, and in the blind spot, does not suggest an explicit filling-in mechanism in the brain, but that the color experience is encoded by "ignoring an absence" (Dennett 1991,1992). In fact the experience of the retinal blind spot, or a uniformly colored surface, produces a distinct colored experience at every point throughout the colored region to a particular spatial resolution as a spatial continuum, and the informational content of that experience is greater than that in a compressed representation. cns-alumni.bu.edu /~slehar/webstuff/consc/consc.html   (8274 words)

Being There: The Subjective Experience of Presence This manuscript offers a subjective explanation of presence in which the yardstick to measure presence is applied not to assessing how closely a virtual world mimics real world sensations, but instead to analyzing the kinds of evidence a virtual experience provides to participants which help convince them they are there. Subjective personal presence is a measure of the extent to which and the reasons why you feel like you are in a virtual world. For whichever of the 3 experiences a participant tried, (Undersea Adventure, Japanese Garden and Tokyo Godzilla), they were asked to rate their enjoyment, on a scale from 0 to 10 with 10 being very enjoyable. commtechlab.msu.edu /randd/research/beingthere.html   (5923 words)

dphilintro According to the objectors, the fact that we can never achieve anything so direct as introspection of the subjective experience of any person other than ourselves means that the whole picture of people as communicating about or in terms of their subjective experience is, in some more or less radical way, misconceived. There is no possibility at present of one subject of experience comparing his experiences with those of another subject to discover immediately whether or not their experiences are qualitatively similar in similar circumstances. In the last analysis, subjective experience will have to have its proper place in our understanding of the world, and no ossified methodology, adopted originally for perhaps acceptable reasons of expediency, should be used as a basis for shirking this prospect. www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk /%7Ehardy/unpublished/dphilintro.html   (882 words)

Elias Digests — objective/subjective awareness Your subjective consciousness is that element of consciousness which encompasses all other states; all states that you term to be altered states, your dream state also, meditative states, hypnotic states. Your subjective awareness is that awareness which is a part of you, which moves in harmony to your objective awareness and includes your dream state and all other states of consciousness associated with this reality; not your waking state. For you continue to separate the objective and the subjective as two entities, and not necessarily as entities that move in harmony with each other but entities that follow each other, and that the subjective is the more powerful, the directing awareness, and that the objective follows the subjective. www.eliasforum.org /digests/objective_subjective_awareness.html   (6585 words)

Stace and the Question of Objectivity in Mysticism If we take a subjective experience to be one that is mind-generated, and an objective experience to be one that is not,[6] then it is clear that every experience must be one or the other. Ibn's experience is private, since he is alone,[7] and his experience is disordered, because it violates the "regularity of succession" that Ibn knew so well up until the instant he walked into the water hole. This experience is unanimous in the tribe, and it is ordered, because it represents a constant conjunction of events with which the clan is familiar - as far as they know, water holes always vanish when you approach them. www.infidels.org /library/modern/mark_vuletic/stace.html   (1596 words)

Edge: ONE HALF AN ARGUMENT Although we can measure certain correlates of subjective experience (e.g., correlating certain patterns of objectively measurable neurological activity with objectively verifiable reports of certain subjective experiences), we cannot penetrate to the core of subjective experience through objective measurement. So I accept that Jaron Lanier has subjective experiences, and I can even imagine (and empathize with!) his feelings of frustration at the dictums of "cybernetic totalists" such as myself (not that I accept this characterization) as he wrote his half manifesto. After all, if we truly imagine a world in which there is no subjective experience, i.e., a world in which there is swirling stuff but no conscious entity to experience it, then that world may as well not exist. www.edge.org /3rd_culture/kurzweil/kurzweil_p2.html   (984 words)

Co-constructing subjective experience: A constructivist approach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The purpose of this paper is to provide an example of contextualizing the study of subjective experience within the constructivist paradigm (Denzin and Lincoln, 1994; Lincoln and Guba, 1985) in the hope that this process might be useful in rethinking the hard problem of consciousness. She noted that Mary was not only able to "get a handle on" subjective experience, but was able to do so in a manner that affected people deeply, helping them change in ways they found useful. Chalmers' notion of functional organization is not context-sensitive; the principle presupposes a dichotomy between cognition functions and subjective experience. www.cs.fiu.edu /~pasztora/co-constr/coconstr2.html   (11682 words)

Neurophenomenology: How to combine subjective experience with brain evidence | Science & Consciousness Review The description by the subject of subtle changes of cognitive context and subjective experience could thus guide the study of this variability. The purpose was to improve their perceptual discrimination and to enable them to carefully explore variations in their subjective experience during repeated exposure to the task. They were thus instructed to direct their attention to their own immediate mental processes during the task and to the We trained subjects to improvise their perceptual discrimination and to enable them to carefully explore variations in their subjective experience felt-quality of the emergence of the 3D image. sci-con.org /2003/03/neurophenomenology-how-to-combine-subjective-experience-with-brain-evidence   (852 words)

Subjective Mental Experience and Genuine Experience Some people have recommended all kinds of methods; probably these were methods which had succeeded in their case; but to tell the truth, one must find one's own method, it is only after having done the thing that one knows how it should be done, not before. But the feeling of something that's innumerable, that's one and innumerable at the same time, and that kind of impression of something opening, awakening, beginning to vibrate, responding to the forces and giving you an intensity of light, of understanding, of opening to higher regions, this is... One knows that it is not an imagined experience, that it is a sincere, spontaneous one, and this always has a power of transformation much greater than the experience that was brought about by a mental knowledge. www.kheper.net /topics/chakras/subjective_vs_genuine.html   (662 words)

Relationship of Subjective self to the Transcendent Within the experience of life as a game, there are many other smaller scale games that are played, each with their own explicit and implicit rules which bound the experience of reality within the game. This experience is synonymous with the creative experience in general, which seems to involve both a narrowing of self and an expansion of self. It can therefore be seen how in a similar way to the experience of inspiration in prayer, the self is required to exercise their power of autonomy and direct the moment of motivation to ‘be’ into actually having an affect in altering the relationship of self to the boundaries of the constructed reality. home.iprimus.com.au /cadew/essays/subjective.htm   (2953 words)

Assessing the Foundations and Prospects for Conscious Computing: A Bayesian Perspective These explanations implicitly or explicitly pose conscious experience as arising as an essential property of souls or other experiencing entities founded on what one might refer to as classical theological or spiritual constructs, as captured, for example, by the notions of individuals in Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish, and other organized religions. The essential nature of the property and its role in subjective experience may one day be revealed via ongoing efforts in physics and neurobiology. Figure 4 captures a pattern of beliefs leaning towards the conscious experience as a very special kind of information processing, followed by some probability that something else is going on, with an even less likelihood that the subjective world is an inescapable aspect of the intellectual competency associated with human (and potentially other) nervous systems. research.microsoft.com /~horvitz/cca/default.htm   (1545 words)

Thinking Critically about the Subjective-Objective Distinction Careless use of the terms "subjective" and "objective" also leads to odd views in metaphysics, e.g., the denial of material reality (idealism); and odd views in epistemology, e.g., the claim that all statements are equally warranted. Instead, when we think about metaphysical subjectivity, we ought to think primarily in adverbial terms: "subjectively" is a way of being real (reality depends on being experienced). A claim is epistemologically subjective (or a matter of opinion) if the primary relevant evidence for determining the truth value of statements about the issue is metaphysically subjective. instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/subjective_objective.html   (3772 words)

Anomalous Experience | Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute 1) This is a non-prejudicial method of portraying the subject's impression that they have had experiences of such a peculiar or meaningful kind that they would perceive them as psychic or paranormal or of psi kind. Near Death Experience (NDE): An experience that occurs at a time close to death that is of such a kind that the person perceives it as meaningful, spiritual, mystical and psychic. Like Near Death Experience (NDEs), because déjà vu is subjective and has been demonstrated to have several different subtypes, I do not classify this as within the domain of psi experience. www.pni.org /research/anomalous/anomalous_primer.html   (1173 words)

Thinking Critically About the "Subjective" / "Objective" Distinction In a way, their misuse is responsible for the confusion about subjectivism in ethics (the view that moral judgements are nothing but statements or expressions of personal opinion or feeling and thus that moral judgements cannot be supported or refuted by reason). Consider your experience of a headache versus your experience of the Eiffel Tower. The subjectivist says that because people have subjective feelings about ethical matters, that claims about ethical matters themselves must be subjective and therefore merely matters of opinion, and therefore not liable to adjudication by reason or other objective methods. instruct.westvalley.edu /lafave/subjective_and_objective.html   (1281 words)

Subjective Reality Q&A I’ve received abundant questions about the notion of subjective reality since the last blog post, so I’ll cover some of the basics in Q&A form.  Most people asked questions from a perspective that tries to shoehorn subjective reality into an objective framework… hence confusion is the usual result.  Subjective reality requires a very different framework. Subjective reality centers around consciousness, and that consciousness is the real you.  There are no other people “out there” having their own subjective experiences.  There is only you.  And your subjective reality is the only one there is. The Law of Attraction meshes perfectly well with the philosophy of subjective reality which declares that the only consciousness in the universe is your own and everyone else is a projection of the same consciousness. www.stevepavlina.com /blog/2006/05/subjective-reality-qa   (3102 words)

Music Music as subjective experience: Another commonly held definition of music holds that music must be "pleasant" or "melodic". Music as a category of perception: Less commonly held is the cognitive definition of music, which argues that music is not merely the sound, or the perception of sound, but a means by which perception, action and memory are organized. Deaf people can experience music by feeling the vibrations in their body; the most famous example of a deaf musician is the composer Ludwig van Beethoven, who composed many famous works even after he had completely lost his hearing. www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/mu/music_1.html   (2033 words)

Subjective Experience and Subjective States of Mind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Qualia are internal, subjective qualitative states such as the redness of red, aesthetic experiences of beauty and revulsion, pain, happiness, boredom, depression, elation, motivation, intention, the experience of understanding something for the first time, etc. Such states are subjective and private and are distinct (though causally related to) physical and neural activities. The experimentally accessible processes, such as projection of images on the retina and the resultant neural firings etc, are describable in terms of manipulation of symbols (typically binary states such as fired/not fired, matrices of pixels or strings of pulses). However, how these symbols and the processes that manipulate them give rise to qualitative subjective experience is one of the major areas of difference between the materialist and Buddhist viewpoints. website.lineone.net /~kwelos/Qualia.htm   (449 words)

William Mitchell [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) One learns about the mind primarily by studying experience directly as we live it (the “direct” approach); and secondarily, by studying the mind indirectly by means of the emerging sciences of the mind, for example, neuroscience (the “indirect” approach). Experience is what the mind, the “reacting structure”, does in reaction to its environment (a definition which is sufficiently vague to cover all aspects of content). Experience does not, at least initially, consist of ourselves feeling something (for this involves higher-level thought—thought which is part of the later growth of the mind); rather, it is feeling as such, or—as Mitchell calls it—mere sensation; not somebody’s feeling or a feeling of something. www.iep.utm.edu /m/mitchell.htm   (8224 words)

Subjective experience (from mind, philosophy of) --  Encyclopædia Britannica It is often maintained that the essence of the mental consists of states of consciousness taken as subjective experiences. More results on "Subjective experience (from mind, philosophy of)" when you join. A person experiences material things, but their existence is not independent of the perceiving mind; material things are thus mere perceptions. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=11947   (891 words)

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