apperception

noun

1. (especially, uncountable)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. (uncountable)Psychological or mental perception; recognition.

   “Conception is... the simplest act of thinking; it is the apprehension of the universal, as perception is the apperception of the particular.”

   “For as she smiled I was gifted a glimpse past the apperception of an anonymous spherical quantity of human flesh; and into the individual.”

3. (countable)The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.