His "Empire" is a masterpiece because it drew a hard line between past and future roles of art, and because this conceptual service is attended — when you witness, if not actively watch, the film — by steady sensations of self-evidence, beauty, and fathomless humor.
Of relevance to the current inquiry, comparable sensations of self-motion can be elicited by visual displays depicting simple patterns of optical flow [33], [34].
Centre-surround inhibition may play a role in visual-vestibular phenomenon, such as vection, whereby large field visual stimuli (e.g., moving clouds) elicit sensations of self-motion.
Lesions of vestibular cortex can lead to a tilt of the perceived visual vertical and rotational vertigo/unsteadiness [ 44], while focal electrical stimulation or epileptic discharges can elicit sensations of self-motion or altered gravity [ 45, 46].
Despite the eloquence of brainstem visuovestibular interaction, sensory signals may conspire to defeat a correct brain decision regarding self- versus object-motion and thus engender false sensations of self-motion (called "vection"); for example, we may erroneously perceive ourselves to be swaying when faced with the swaying of branches when climbing a tree.
In its purest form, this sensation of self may be received in circumstances free from the implications of learning, memory and thought, as well as emotional, intellectual and locomotory reactions to stimuli.
If this activity is supported by a phytoneural system (see section 13) capable of MT-derived OR events, then states 1 and 2 could be integrated and brought to a focus by some type of sensory binding within an emergent state 3, a state that may already be receiving impulses of protoconsciousness from OR events or, more directly, from a sensation of self, state 3 [1,2].
A relationship between NOSE scores and bilateral CFD-NR was not evident for the two subjects together in agreement with previous reports, probably because of interindividual differences in self-evaluation, dominance of congestion sensations on self-reported symptoms, and dilution of congestion effects on NR by the unaffected side.
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Being worthy of this God's love seemed to offer a new sensation of self-worth.
As I looked into his eyes, which were the same brownish gold as mine, I had my first sensation of self-awareness.
