Bubble of Nowness

The paper's metaphor for the minimal temporal extent of conscious experience; increases with successful perceptual coherence and shrinks with failure

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Second-Order Perception
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CIMC's proposed computational structure of consciousness: perception that perception is occurring, non-inferential and synchronous with its content

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anticipationconcept0.723
Reorienting in expectation of reinforcements; a cognitive quality in plants.
The more it is alive, the more it seems faintly to shine.claim0.713
Alexander's introspective observation about the qualitative appearance of life in things.
Realnessconcept0.709
The representation of something currently being the case; a variable feature dimension of conscious contents distinguishing ideas from hallucinations of factuality
When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.707
Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
Pleasing Yourselfconcept0.705
The core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.
What has self cannot be captured by any simple formula like formal/informal or ornamented/unornamented.claim0.703
A warning against oversimplifying the nature of life-quality.
Wholenessconcept0.700
Alexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
To live is to be other; feeling today what was felt yesterday is remembering not feelingconcept0.698