What Phenomenology Entails.

Posted on by Lynda Joy

Phenomenology is pre-reflective, focusing on lived experience without resorting to taxonomy, abstraction, or theory which dissociate the experiencer or observer from the phenomena directly present.

To understand what it is to be a person in the present times in a particular place and situation is to understand the dynamics of the structure of the lived-world — how it can be stretched, widened, restricted, and questioned. Phenomenology explores the grounds of the ways in which a person can experience the world and therefore what it means to be a person, to be human.

Through phenomenological investigation, we find “memories” that we never thought or felt before. We access something very raw, basic, and quintessential that was always there but never recognized before.

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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.