percept

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The stage is the central workspace of the mind, with a small working memory capacity for representing a single percept, thought or memory.

From Scientific American • Sep. 8, 2023

A percept in the absence of sensation; the runaway model had gone rogue.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2018

What these all have in common is that the individual percept seems to be highly subjective, ultimately influenced—if not determined—by the idiosyncratic life experience of the observer.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2017

It wasn't a memory it was a percept, though not one such as you would have.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2015

The percept here not only verifies the concept, proves its function of knowing that percept to be true, but the percept’s existence as the terminus of the chain of intermediaries creates the function.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William