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semisensation

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the concept that every object has parts that we can't see hidden behind parts that we can

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but semi-sensation is not the only way that what we see goes beyond the senses

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look at the duck-rabbit

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make the reversal as many times as you can in five seconds

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in what way is the object you are looking at changing?

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since the image is not changing, the changes taking place are non-sensory, and yet it is a difference we perceive

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the difference is super-sensory but not semi-sensory as we imagine the back side of a cube

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we can never simply experience sensory perception pure and simple

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if we look at a blue square, it could be:

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the sky over your head

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modern painting by Ad Reinhardt

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a wall of someone's bedroom

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the blue screen of death

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an example in a MOOC

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a stimulus in a pyschology experiment on color perception

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to see the blue just as the color blue is an interpretation just as is all the rest

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even if we try to limit our seeing to the color and nothing else, we are making an interpretation

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whatever context we have, e.g. being in an art museum or a house or a psychology lab, remains in consciousness as a super-sensory element of what we see

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we never experience a sensation of blue without interpretation, even the idea of pure blue is an interpretation

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in all these cases, both the sensory and the non-sensory are in our conscious experience at the same time

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we can think of experience as being made of layers of sensory and non-sensory elements

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superposition

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coexistence of features or properties bound to single entities, including sensory and non-sensory properties

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e.g. of a moving cube, the visible sides of the cube travel together with their hidden sides

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e.g. when the gray line drawing can be seen as two images

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a general aspect of consciousness

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look around you

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all the objects you see have back sides

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although there are borderline cases

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everything around us has layers of interpretation

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we never see the world as simple sensation