Having these abilities, according to Cussins, enables the subject to form beliefs and other mental states that are assessable for accuracy (or that have contents in our sense); but the abilities themselves, which are supposed to constitute experiences, are not; and even a creature who hadn't yet or couldn't form such states could still have the abilities.
He targets versions of the view that aim to find what constitutes experience in terms of awareness of properties (or a suitably similar relation to properties).
Regarding (3), we must distinguish between Otto's androcentric claim that his type of numinous experience constitutes religious experience at its most profound, and the rich variegation of religious and mystical experience of men throughout history.
But this does not follow, for the familiar reason that a succession of experiences does not automatically constitute an experience of succession.
Accordingly, provided the envisaged succession of phases [P1, P2, P3 … Pn] are related in this manner – they are diachronically co-conscious, and so are experienced together – they already constitute an experience of succession, and nothing further is required.
They constitute an experience which must never be repeated; those who have engineered it must be held to account," Blower said.
They constitute an experience which must never be repeated; those who have engineered it must be held to account," she said.
This essay attempts to relate these levels of analysis to the neural systems that constitute lived experience in the human mind.
The Rhythmic Event seeks to define the digital media artwork as an assemblage of sensations that outlive the space, time, and bodies that constitute and experience it.
Appreciation without participation results when some representations "positively discourage participation, especially the psychological participation that would constitute the experience of being caught up in the story" (p. 274).
