Living for Others.

Posted on by Lynda Joy

Everything we do in life is to be loved a little more, or so Julie Delpy’s character in Before Sunrise argues. It seems impossible to me that we can ever truly block out the awareness of our coexistence in a shared realm wherein which we are viewed by the Other. What does my life amount to if I no longer think of it in terms of the effect that I have on Others? What is anyone’s life without connection to the Other?

I have been filtering through theories of Self, and every approach to being a person seems fundamentally incomplete unless the Other is accounted for as a principle figure in our Being-in-the-world. There is a shift that occurs once we are aware of the presence of the other…our view of the world becomes largely disembodied because the natural embodied perspective is seen as limiting and incomplete. The desire to talk about a world that exists independently from the viewer, in its own stable plane, largely stems from the awareness that a sight that I behold is also given to the other.

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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.