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In this chapter I summarize the hard evidence for why we should pay attention to the transformations that our receptors and sensory channels make—rather than thinking of these channels as simple throughputs. This evidence provides a story far richer than the view of the formation of perception held by so many scientists and philosophers.

Furthermore, when we separate the transformations produced by our lenses and lens-like processes from those produced by our retinal processing, we can demonstrate that the brain processing of visual perception is actually multidimensional. For other senses I presented the evidence that “sensory inhibition” serves a similar function. Thus there is no need for us to deal with the commonly held view that brain processes need to supplement a two-dimensional sensory input.

Finally, I place an emphasis on the data that show that perception has the attribute of “projection” away from the immediate locus of the stimulation. We often perceive objects and figures as “out there,” not at the surface of the receptor stimulation.

A corollary of projection is introjection. I thus now venture to suggest that introjection of perceptions makes up a good deal of what we call our ”conscious experience.”