RELS 161 Lecture : Phenomenology
5 May 2012
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Cognition is the exercise of skillful know how in situated action. Experience is considered central to understanding the mind and needs to be investigated in a phenomenological manner. Phenomenological account of the structure of human experience and scientific accounts of cognitive processes can be mutually informative and enriching. Disciplined, first person ways of investigating and analyzing experience. Intersects with religion as a contemplative and phenomenological expertise. Play a role in the investigation of consciousness. Incorporate first person methods of examine experience into experimental research on subjectivity and consciousness. First person methods sensitize individuals to their own mental lives through systemic training of attention, emotion regulation and awareness of cognition. It combines neuroscience with phenomenology in order to study experience, mind, and consciousness with an emphasis on the embodied condition of the human mind. Neurophenomenology : contemplative training cultivates a capacity for sustained, attentive awareness of the moment to moment flux of experience.
