ABSTRACT

Within the human organism every level of what might be called the life process, from the strictly biological to the social, is interactive with some 'environment' outside itself. This interaction is critically dependent on the intake, processing, and exchange of information. The external environment as "information" source for man is constantly showering him with signals of various density, modality, and intensity. The capacity of an individual to absorb and process this flow of information is limited. As a consequence humans are endowed with a set of receptors that select consequential signals according to a set of laws, some of which are well-documented both on the physiological and psychological level. The perceptual system apart from the senses serves as a reduction device, in essence a shorthand, for the efficient construction of what is called subjective reality experience.