phenomenology
a philosophy of experience that seeks to explain the nature of things through the way people experience them
phenomenology
The place we generally start is with the body. Do you trust it? Are you aware of its signals? Do you know how to take your phenomenology seriously and move your finger? Ironically, putting our minds before our bodies pushes us to a default where our mental pre conceptions pre empt our direct experience. We ignore the reality before us, because it... See more
Sadalsuud • It's Called "Woo" Because It's Fun
stumbled across in an Experimental History substack article
When you encounter a new idea, you change, and so the world changes. When you share an idea with another, they change. When you create a new idea, you restructure the ecological space of ideas itself. At each of these steps, the material world has changed, because ideas and people are part of the world. And when your ideas change so too does your... See more
eigenrobot • the map is of the territory
The best path to uncover our true desires lies in the body. Our embodied experience of how goals and activities feel to pursue can highlight where there’s personal resonance.
Sam Sager • Exploring Our Why
Basic Phenomenological Vocabulary
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"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to... See more
- Kasra
this feels connected to why I prefer sensory- and qualia-based healthcare approaches.
like, people """"""could""""" spend hundreds of hours learning how to review (often shoddy) academic papers
or they could learn to detect the felt sense of illness & remedy
Elena Lake in the forest of dangers & wondersx.com