I strongly agree with the cognitive approach where your consciousness is an interpretation of what your thoughts are actively focused upon, rather than the psychodynamic approach, where your consciousness is based entirely on your unconscious thoughts. Baars (2011) discussed the method of contrastive analysis and the famous, well-studied technique, called binocular rivalry. The left eye and right eye are presented with very different images and the brain flips between the two images. Baars explained how the visual objects were consciously constructed into a jigsaw puzzle with “momentary snapshots” or maps of the visual input. The string of maps then travel down the conscious stream and come together to form an integrated visual experience (Logothetis,
