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The Experience
Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Experience may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1966–69), a rock band, led by guitarist Jimi Hendrix, sometimes known as "The Experience". * ''Experience'' (Jimi Hendrix album) (1971) * ''Experience'' (Lincoln Thompson album) (1979) * ''Experience'' (The Prodigy album) (1992) * ''The Experience'' (Yolanda Adams album), 2001 * '' Experience: Jill Scott 826+'' (2001), a live double album by American R&B-soul singer–songwriter Jill Scott * ''Experience'' (York album) (2001), by German electronic act York * ''Experience'' (2001), by DJ Project * ''Experience'' (World Saxophone Quartet album) (2004) * The Experience (gospel concert), a gospel music concert in Nigeria * ''Experience'' (Rize album) (2010) * "Experience" (Diana Ross song), 1985 * Experience (Victoria Monét, Khalid and SG Lewis song) * "Experience", a song by Gentle Giant on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experiences
Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these conscious processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involves a subject to which various items are presented. In this sense, seeing a yellow bird on a branch presents the subject with the objects "bird" and "branch", the relation between them and the property "yellow". Unreal items may be included as well, which happens when experiencing hallucinations or dreams. When understood in a more restricted sense, only sensory consciousness counts as experience. In this sense, experience is usually identified with perception and contrasted with other types of conscious events, like thinking or imagining. In a slightly different sense, experience refers not to the conscious events themselves but to the practical knowledge and familiarity they produce. In this sense, it is important that direct perceptual c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Experience (book)
''Experience'' is a book of memoirs by the British author Martin Amis Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir '' .... Publication history The book was written primarily in response to the 1995 death of Amis's father, the famed author Kingsley Amis, and was first published in 2000. Serialization Upon publication, ''Experience'' was serialized in the UK's ''The Guardian'' in four parts. Reception Critical response to Amis's memoir was very warm. The literary criticism, critic James Wood (critic), James Wood wrote in the ''Guardian'', "''Experience'' is a beautiful, and beautifully strange book, and it is unlike anything one expected. One feared a trough of plaint: either a sad, Edmund Gosse, Gosse-like reckoning with the father; or an angry, journalistic reckoning with those j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |