apperception

noun3

1. •
   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. — 1887
2. •
   The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.
3. •
   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.