unmediated

Communication Nation: The eyes have it

Actual bandwidth of the five senses, compared to the bandwidth we are consciously aware of. From The half-second delay: What follows?, a paper on learning, consciousness and perception.

Another quote from this interesting paper:
“Traditional models of affect posit that … first we decide what we think, and then we decide how we feel about it. However, the evidence … indicates that the real order of things is likely to be the reverse of this… what we feel about something tells us what we think.”