While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a few Miles above Tintern Abbey” Between series of posts on vertiginous questions, I am including “respites” that are less heavy philosophically, and more creative and literary:Continue reading ““An Eye Made Quiet”: My Exercise in Co-Phenomenology at Summer’s End”
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Mystery or Marvel: Why is there a link between physical and conscious events? (Part 3)
Science and experience constrain and modify each other as in a dance. Francisco Varela (1996, p. 347) Plenty of puzzles about consciousness remain—unknowns on which further empirical work will plausibly shed light. What kinds of actual or hypothetical entities are conscious, and how similar are their experiences to our own? Ethologists and the average petContinue reading “Mystery or Marvel: Why is there a link between physical and conscious events? (Part 3)”