apperception

Meanings

1. The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.
2. Psychological or mental perception; recognition.
3. The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.

Etymology

Borrowed from French aperception (New Latin apperceptiō, used by Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)).