The Full Spectrum of Awareness — Perception, Emotion, and Altered States Explained | Chapter 2 of Then I Am Myself the World
The Full Spectrum of Awareness — Perception, Emotion, and Altered States Explained | Chapter 2 of Then I Am Myself the World Chapter 2 of Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It by Christof Koch examines the incredible diversity of human subjective experience. This chapter moves beyond the origins of consciousness and into the lived reality of awareness itself—how we perceive, feel, reflect, dream, and shift through varying states of mind. The video summary embedded below expands on these ideas for learners who want a guided exploration of the chapter’s core themes. Here is the book cover associated with this chapter: Mapping the Varieties of Conscious Experience Koch structures this chapter around phenomenology—the study of experience as it is lived from the first-person perspective. He draws on William James’s famous metaphor of the “stream of consciousness” to illustrate how awareness is not static but constantly evolving. In this stream, ...