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the tryings of a mind trying to defend its existence and not having learned to . . . rely . . . on the body yet https://t.co/g2NesY2Eh8
reading Merleau-Ponty allowed me to begin perceiving my own habit-body just because i, my consciousness, was happy, didn’t mean by body was whether or not my body felt loved was a lived set of habitual responses; it was something else entirely from my cognitive layer
“i kind of feel, you know, parenting is the crucible in whch our existence is defined. because if we’re fortunate enough to have loving parents absolutely from day one, they are the living human being who reinforce the fact that we can rely on their existence”
something alienated about Descartes. because it’s not relational. it’s abstract “we come into existence by being taken care of” “and that’s literally relational; it implies the existence of an other,” one you don’t fully understand, yet you rely on
this isn’t to say Descartes’ work isn’t valuable. it is to ask what sometimes makes it perhaps the only relatable paradigm of many https://t.co/IMJh61gD6G
“i think i am i think i am i think i am i think i am” https://t.co/92AKI2mO0D