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#864 Colin DeYoung: Personality and Psychopathology

The Dissenter

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Exploring the Limits of Consciousness

The chapter delves into the limitations of human consciousness, discussing studies on eye movements revealing the narrow range of perception. It explores the illusory nature of consciousness and how Buddhist meditative training enhances understanding of consciousness, with anecdotes illustrating subconscious filtering of visual information. The concept of perception, attention, predictive coding, active inference, and the interplay between perception, goals, and sensory inputs are thoroughly discussed.

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