Recursive Processing

Posted on by Lynda Joy

Phenomenologists start with the exploration of  experience as it presents itself, as it is given. How honest/sincere can we possibly be in doing this? It becomes an exercise in truth-speaking…visceral, uninhibited, association and context-free description.
Everything that we say about our experience is framed by the structures already at place in that experience. — Is this really a limitation?
What is the relationship between neural states and mental phenomena?
The neural system structurally and functionally maintains and allows for the organism to perceive a world.
What of imagination and recollection? How can a neural system actively organize itself to functionally allow for the lived experience of a world and also spontaneously generate permutations of that world (imagination, dreams) and the ability for the system to activate former states of itself (memory)? Do other biological systems have this type of recursive processing?

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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.