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i keep using this word real. i don't have to explain it to you, because you know what i mean. what does it mean? it means something like: "holds a reality as you interact with it" https://t.co/Dpzg5C6NKy
it is only by participating in action that something becomes real it begins to acquire a reality to it. a kind of reliability https://t.co/QX2mgS6vXE
- why *doubting* if you are doing phenomenology is so corrupting.. it implicitly invokes the frames of certainty & uncertainty, not reliability - from certainty → reliability. a new language from the body - descartes’ daddy issues https://t.co/i8VCztI86g https://t.co/V038j63dcX
freezing things is isolation. introspection is isolation. it can help, to slow and examine things. it can also freeze things, making them invisible to see and increasingly unhinged the feelings are being blocked from participating in action https://t.co/0FP3e2KT3q
isolation is the meta-danger https://t.co/0y6SaoTtUd
these little actions we take like going for a walk seem simple and small, but they're hugely fascinating and non-trivial phenomenology is cool https://t.co/sWMGBlV9gr https://t.co/ElxOEkQqG0
phenomenology describes the experience of what already was was for us no wonder Focusing came directly out of it https://t.co/mQJI3xAfmh
this is all from merleau-ponty, btw, whose book kind of single-handedlt changed my life, by making the body real to me: by making realness real to me https://t.co/1NNQ8YSaLe
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
here i mean realness as = reliability, and real to me as = i perceive it now. it is real to me https://t.co/RXvx8UXCGY