Prompt: Write about you think we fear the most…. yet write from experience. Split us and you wide open. The secrets that aren’t being heard. I think the greatest fear is that of annihilation. Throughout the course of our lives, loss of control and loss of what is so often given and readily available is […]

Reflections on Maturana, From Being to Doing (2004): In the pursuit of truth, the prevailing attitude in the scientific culture and community is to assume the existence of an a priori external world which is separate from our bodies and experience. This metaphysical assumption posits the existence of an independent reality as the background on […]

What is the essence of “life” that makes a living system different from a non-living, inanimate, mechanistic system? Chemists approach this question by addressing the difference between “organic” and “inorganic” matter, and the emergence of carbon atoms that allowed for a tremendous variety and dexterity in molecular structures. Biologists address the question by defining the […]

I am interested in electrophysiology, neurophenomenology, and embodied cognition. The latter two are not within the realm of conventional neuroscience. I greatly despise “pathways” in terms of macro-level structuring. Unfortunately, neuroscientists are generally pretty terrible philosophers. Neuroscience has still not embraced philosophy because of the pragmatic nature of its research, and hence a lot of […]

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 […]

There are a series of philosophical questions about the nature of experience that must be resolved before one can truly address the nature of memory. Somehow it was assumed that the world existed a priori, independently of the perceiving organism. It existed before he came to perceive it and it will continue to exist after […]

I interested in instances where individuals trust others based on the fact that others see all of the individual’s actions unfolding while remaining an independent agent. The third person “observer” view is considered so valuable in the sciences due to its apparent neutrality and in a way it invalidates the obviousness and directness of individuals’ […]

Something weird is happening and it’s not just with technology but technology is just another example of it happening and technology is making it happen faster and fiercer. People have always distanced themselves from the immediate lived-world through abstractions and advanced symbolic language. And now we’re really distancing ourselves not only from the direct moment […]