Conscious Experience and Designing Experiences

Neuroscientific discourse on consciousness often resorts to collection of elements, notwithstanding the Gestalt demonstrations against representing conscious experience as a collection of sensory elements. Here we show that defining conscious experience as an object of a category of conscious experiences, instead of cohesion-less set of structure-less elements, provides the conceptual repertoire---basic shapes, figures, and incidences---needed to think about the essence of experiences and the essence-preserving transformations of experiences.