Blog Archive
-
▼
2016
(343)
-
▼
March
(31)
- A citizen of no place any more than where he...
- To be in the stream of life is to be identif...
- Feeling and emotion are different functions ...
- Occasionally a tide of romantic feelings wou...
- It might start with your finding a set of id...
- How real is it, the entire system of the pro...
- He found it odd that he seemed to have a dis...
- Mostly he was left at the end of the day won...
- The energetic vortex is a field both of expr...
- Feeling or thinking can be detached in mood ...
- The protagonist I ought to be distinguished ...
- How odd that there should be inwardness when...
- Musical lyrics in performance are the positi...
- He believed that close attention to the repe...
- So again in union there is this ambiguity...
- Wanting to say that all this is what it is, ...
- Various twists and turns of experience can b...
- What is alive in each moment is a tiny spark...
- In the course of our goings-on doubts about ...
- Experience in so far as it is ordinarily liv...
- Introspection is a term used imprecisely for...
- The independence of the 'I' as it is discove...
- Periods of flatness when you become merely t...
- A desire must imply a venturing and an uncer...
- Knowing himself as unfree was to know himsel...
- These metaphors for the mind are taken up...
- The storm of need that produces personalisat...
- It seemed to him that no matter how caught u...
- Certain behaviours of systems can appear to ...
- Psychological truth is what has an absolute ...
- Occasionally he would have the good fortune ...
-
▼
March
(31)
Friday, 11 March 2016
Introspection is a term used imprecisely for a number of different activities. In one of them there is a shift of objective attention from the world outside as given by outward directed senses, to the world inside as given by the senses directed towards the inside of the body. Sight and hearing are the dominant outward directed senses, while proprioception, which is akin to touch, and taste are the dominant inner feelings. The world inside the body is taken, however, to be a kind of space, related to but not identical with the perceived body, as an object in the outer world. The distinction of outer and inner is taken for granted, but also acknowledged as one of the early milestone achievements of the embodied mind; it is not regarded as an absolute distinction, it is naturalised not natural. It is possible to withdraw attention almost entirely, and temporarily, from the outer world and absorb it into the inner world, causing the microcosm to be mapped into all of virtual space. This begins with the feeling of the body but the feelings give rise to their own kinds of thoughts, thoughts which may have nothing to do with the body but which are expressed through its feelings the way that a lyric is expressed through the music of a song. Another sense of introspection is closer to pure thought. It is indirect in that it is not sensory or analogous to the sensory. It is when the implicit acknowledgement of the actions of the mind are made explicit in thought, by way of a kind of noticing, a calling out of what is in the margin of attention. This kind of introspection is inner speculation, it is creative and seems unlimited. It does not spatialise and lacks any metaphor for presence, or for the distinction of inner and outer. Therefore it does not support the search for an inner self, but rather is a natural seeking of real discriminations.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.