Consciousness is a “big picture” tool and ultimately wants to arrive at one idea that explains everything. As Leibniz said, the answer to existence should be “the simplest in hypothesis and the richest in phenomena.” Perception is an “all the details” tool, and ultimately wants to perceive the whole universe at once (an impossibility). Concepts and percepts work in opposite directions. Concepts seek to shrink all complexity down to one simple idea. Percepts seek to expand all complexity to an infinity of separate percepts. Concepts are linked to top-down systems, and percepts to bottom-up
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