The ongoing neuropsychological process through which sensory data is edited and integrated with affective and cognitive inputs, ultimately shaping one’s perception of one’s Reality and enabling processes such as judgment and decision-making.
[Note: Consciousness is experienced as a continuous process during wakefulness, but it is the product of a chain of discrete states of mind, each representing the experience of a (subjective) present.]
See also: Affective, Cognitive, Present, Reflex, State of Mind
CONSCIOUSNESS
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