Consciousness and Perceptual Experience

This Book Describes And Proposes An Unusual Integrative Approach To Human Perception That Qualifies As Both An Ecological And A Phenomenological Approach At The Same Time. Thomas Natsoulas Shows Us How Our Consciousness - In Three Of Six Senses Of The Word That The Book Identifies - Is Involved In Our Activity Of Perceiving The One And Only World That Exists Which Includes Oneself As A Proper Part Of It And That All Of Us Share Together With The Rest Of Life On Earth. He Makes The Case That Our Stream Of Consciousness - In The Original Jamesian Sense Minus His Mental/Physical Dualism - Provides Us With Firsthand Contact With The World As Opposed To Our Having Such Contact Instead With Theorist-Posited Items Such As Inner Mental Representations Internal Pictures Or Sense-Image Models Pure Figments And Virtual Objects None Of Which Can Have Effects On Our Sensory Receptors.