I have been thinking a lot about the way that our world is designed to enhance knowledge and wisdom. The current paradigm for accumulating our understanding of the world is to have various individuals designated to specialize in certain areas of the puzzle and then commune again after studying separately and work to form a […]

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I have noticed this strange habit in humans. It could perhaps be referred to as dissociation or analyzing, but it comes in many forms. There is this prevailing habit to look at oneself and events in ones life as though there is a separation between the observing self and the experiencing self. We look at […]

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1.     You do not exist in a vacuum. A colleague of mine who I admire tremendously once told me, “Oh, how lucky we are that we share this world with other gods.” Do not take that too literally, as I do not mean it to convey any religious sentiment. However, yes! The world is mutually […]

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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 […]

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What we actually see is only one face of an object, determined by the axis of our embodied orientation as it is directed towards the object. When we label the object found at the end of our gaze, we do so with an assumption of what would be given from all other views and angles […]

Read more "Thoughts from Mearlu-Ponty’s “Experience and Objective Thought”, pp. 67-9 in Phenomenology of Perception"

I think it is weird to assume that there is a separate “I” who watches its body as it lingers in space. What is the body, and why is it selfless? Why is the “I” separate? That is relying on a traditional model of dualism that I think is unnecessary. I think that there is […]

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I have been interested in first-person experience as long as I can remember. It almost doesn’t make sense. I have always been in awe of my own embodied state. I remember as a kid being fascinated by the process of swallowing. I didn’t realize that it was something everyone did. One time I was laying […]

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I want to study conscious experience and all of its dynamics. Why? One of the ultimate goals of this project is to get human beings to be more in touch with one another on a global scale. It could be argued that this can never be done, but I am assuming that it can. This […]

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So, the issue is that the self and others have differential access to each person’s corporeal being. Your corporeal being is not something that can be transfixed “out there” through another’s gaze, though, and there is nothing else given in nature to bring it “out there” in objective grounds except for the hypothetical presence of […]

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So, you’ve been living your life as yourself for awhile and don’t you find it kind of unsatisfying that you have never directly observed your own face? So, why not try? Now’s the time! So, first, find a comfortable seated position. You might be here for awhile. Begin by stretching your face about with elaborate […]

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