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This model and theoretical perspective is employed deliberately in chapter 4.Figure 2: A cube in 2-dimensional aspectFigure 3: A cube from a different perspectiveChanging the perspective from which an object is viewed can very much change the perceptionof what is seen and what it represents. The object can look very different. Indeed, looked at incertain ways the ‘Neckar Cube’ (figure 3.) can look like a stylised eight-legged creature.Changing the perspective from which a self is viewed might render similarly startling results.Without paying due homage to its intellectual foundations, Damasio applies thisphenomenological method to his own analysis of the phenomena of feelings,“Feelings are perceptions and, in some ways, they are comparable to other perceptions.For example, actual visual perceptions correspond to external objects whose physicalcharacteristics impinge on our retinas and temporarily modify the patterns of sensory mapsin the visual system. (Damasio, 2004 p. 91)Of significance here is Damasio’s clear acknowledgement that observable phenomena areinterpreted by the individual personally.“Feelings also have an object at the origin of the process and the physical characteristics ofthe object also prompt a chain of signals that transit through maps of the object inside thebrain. Just as in the case of visual perception, there is part of the phenomenon that is due tothe object, and a part that is due to the internal construction the brain makes of it.”(Damasio, 2004 p.91)69Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thesis (October 2012)