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

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 […]

Consciousness as a Dynamical System and Being-in-the-world.

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 […]

My Personal Path into and with Philosophy

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 […]

My Goals: What I am Doing and Why.

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 […]

Reflections on knowing (or, not knowing) how you appear to others

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 […]

Ways to find your own face.

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 […]

Spiritual echoes.

I wish I were living cinema. Some people are like that, I think. I have seen it before. They move and while watching them you become transfixed in something in the flow of their movement and it does not seem real. Sometimes it seems to happen in slow motion, like watching someone light up during […]

Quotes.

“Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all of our objectivity.” – (Abram, 1996, p. 34) “Phenomenology is a low-hovering, in-dwelling, meditative philosophy that glories in the concreteness of person-world relations and accords lived experience, with all its indeterminancy and ambiguity, primacy […]

Sincerity.

There is something here that is inexpressible and yet inescapably prevalent in every part of the whole overall effect of what might be called a phenomenon, something happening. We perceive the world and grasp it and at once it slips away, mutating its form into a new configuration of our perceptual state. At what point […]

Remember me as a time of day.

It is imperative for me to explore everything that is here and to do so with the highest degree of honesty that I can possibly express. I am trying to think of a way to explain how basic of a task this is. To me, at the core of all of this is experience. There […]

What is Experience?

Exploring Empathy and Phenomenology in the Age of Virtuality