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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]