quintessential and honest

Posted on by Lynda Joy

I think that the study of experience itself and what it means to be experiencing or to have an experience is absolutely essential. There is a first-personal nature to the question because experience is given with an embodied viewpoint. Throughout this blog, I will approach the questions of experience as honestly and primordially as possible. First, I just want to establish that currently the sciences, and, specifically, the sciences of mind (psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience) are conducting their studies from a third-person “objective” stance. However, the subject matter of these studies is not something “out there”, but is instead the same subject matter as the mechanism doing the exploration. Therefore, assuming the objectivist attitude in this instance is somewhat ridiculous.

There are two things I know how to do very well: one, I am very good at taking any topic and viewing it for its quintessence, and two, I am very good at being honest. I will maintain both of these character eccentricities throughout this entire blog to the best of my ability, hoping to gain insight into the nature of human experience.

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Lynda Joy is a American PhD student living in Denmark, researching sensorimotor training with multi-modal Augmented Reality technologies by using methodologies from Cognitive Neuropsychology. During her MA, she worked very closely with the Center for Subjectivity Research and studied Phenomenology and its plausible implementations in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science ("naturalized" phenomenology). Between her MA and PhD, she worked with labs in Berlin (Germany), Adelaide (Australia), Tallinn (Estonia), Zurich (Switzerland), and Paris (France). She was a keynote speaker at IEEE VR in 2016, and presented at the Augmented Reality World Expo in 2017. In her spare time, she is currently writing a novel about a virtual simulation of bardo (the stage between life and death to reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism). Her goal is to create experiences with new technologies that help people access more of the embodied subjectivity of another person/persons. Lynda wants her work to revere compassion to help allow the world to realize what a gift it is to both give and receive. Lynda is a strong believer in a better world that we collectively make by sharing a common vision, and that this vision comes through sharing our stories and our truths. That's what this blog is all about.