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Personal experience of a human being is the moment-to-moment experience and sensory awareness of internal and external events. Human beings, humans or man (Origin 1590–1600 L homō man OL hemō the earthly one (see Humus Experience as a general concept comprises Knowledge of or skill in or Observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or

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An early belief of some philosophers of Ancient Greece was that the mind was like a recording device and simply kept somehow-objective records of what the senses experienced. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca MIND ( Moving In New Directions) (est 1975 is an alternative education high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Senses are the physiological methods of Perception. The senses and their operation classification and theory are overlapping topics studied by a variety of fields This was believed in the Western world into the 20th century until cognitive psychology experiments decisively proved that it was not true, and that many events were simply filled in by the mind, based on what "should be". The twentieth century of the Common Era began on Cognitive psychology is a branch of Psychology that investigates internal mental processes such as problem solving memory and language This among other things explained why eyewitness accounts of events often were so widely varied.

In Ancient Rome it was believed that personal experience was part of some divine or species-wide collective experience. Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC This gave rise to notions of racial memory, national mission, and such notions as racism and patriotism. Racial memory is a concept in Jungian psychology. Racial memories are posited memories feelings and ideas inherited from our ancestors as part of a " Collective unconscious List of racism-related topics|Racism by country Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that Patriotism is commonly defined as love of and/or devotion to one's country It was likely easier to create political movements and military morale with such notions, than a strictly personal idea of experience. A political movement is a Social movement working in the area of Politics. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell were notable investigators of these ideas of collective experience in the 20th century. Joseph John Campbell ( March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American Mythology Professor, Writer The twentieth century of the Common Era began on

During The Enlightenment, there was rigorous investigation of these ideas. The Age of Enlightenment or The Enlightenment is a term used to describe a phase in Western philosophy and cultural life centered upon the eighteenth century Immanuel Kant noted that it was only possible to explain "experience and its objects" as a consequence of each other: either experience makes those objects possible, or those objects make experience possible. Immanuel Kant (ɪmanuəl kant 22 April 1724 12 February 1804 was an 18th-century German Philosopher from the Prussian city of Königsberg This is seen today as dualism, and denying the possibility of a third thing making both experience and whatever reality its objects have, both possible. Dualism denotes a state of two parts The word's origin is the Latin duo, "two". That thing could be a more universal cognition, as proposed in some versions of Christianity or Gaia philosophy. Cognition is a concept used in different ways by different disciplines but is generally accepted to mean the process of awareness or thought Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings Gaia philosophy (named after Gaia, Greek Goddess of the Earth) is a broadly inclusive term for related concepts that living organisms on

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