Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Moments of Truth
- 2 Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
- 3 Apprehending Pristine Experience
- 4 Everyday Experience
- 5 Moments Are Essential
- 6 Experience in Tourette's Syndrome
- 7 The Moment (Not): Happy and Sad
- 8 Subjunctification
- 9 Before and After Experience? Adolescence and Old Age
- 10 Iteration Is Essential
- 11 Epistemological Q/A
- 12 A Consciousness Scientist as DES Subject
- 13 Pristine Experience (Not): Emotion and Schizophrenia
- 14 Multiple Autonomous Experience in a Virtuoso Musician
- 15 Unsymbolized Thinking
- 16 Sensory Awareness
- 17 The Radical Non-subjectivity of Pristine Experience
- 18 Diamonds versus Glass
- 19 Into the Floor: A Right-or-Wrong-Answer Natural Experiment
- 20 The Emergence of Salient Characteristics
- 21 Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Appendix: List of Constraints
- References
- Index
1 - Moments of Truth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Moments of Truth
- 2 Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
- 3 Apprehending Pristine Experience
- 4 Everyday Experience
- 5 Moments Are Essential
- 6 Experience in Tourette's Syndrome
- 7 The Moment (Not): Happy and Sad
- 8 Subjunctification
- 9 Before and After Experience? Adolescence and Old Age
- 10 Iteration Is Essential
- 11 Epistemological Q/A
- 12 A Consciousness Scientist as DES Subject
- 13 Pristine Experience (Not): Emotion and Schizophrenia
- 14 Multiple Autonomous Experience in a Virtuoso Musician
- 15 Unsymbolized Thinking
- 16 Sensory Awareness
- 17 The Radical Non-subjectivity of Pristine Experience
- 18 Diamonds versus Glass
- 19 Into the Floor: A Right-or-Wrong-Answer Natural Experiment
- 20 The Emergence of Salient Characteristics
- 21 Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Appendix: List of Constraints
- References
- Index
Summary
[A warm mid-July evening, clear with high clouds. Sunset, bright oranges and golds. Jack and Jennifer stand on the beach, holding hands. Quiet and still.]
jennifer: “What are you thinking?”
jack: “Right now?”
jennifer: “Yeah!”
jack: “Just how spectacular the sunset is – and about sharing it with you.”
jennifer: “Me too.” [Leans closer to him.]
The omniscient being knows that at the moment Jennifer began to ask “What are you thinking?” Jack was seeing in his imagination Barry Bonds-at-bat in the All-Star Game he had been watching when Jennifer suggested walking to the beach to see the sunset. As he had clicked off the TV, Bonds was just coming to bat with a man on second. Now, as they stood on the beach, Jack was, in his imagination, seeing Bonds as if seen from the pitcher's mound, seeing Bonds tap the front of the plate with his bat, seeing his left elbow rock high in the air as he prepared for the pitch, hearing the crowd roar. The omniscient being knows that Jack's experience was, at that moment, totally absorbed in Bonds's at-bat, knows that Jennifer's question interrupted Jack's Bonds-at-bat experience and brought the sunset and Jennifer into the foreground of Jack's experience.
The omniscient being also knows that at the moment Jennifer began to ask “What are you thinking?” Jennifer was feeling a dryness in her throat and a caving-in sensation in her chest – a worry/guilt/tension about whether someone had told Jack that she had flirted with the sales rep that afternoon.
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- Investigating Pristine Inner ExperienceMoments of Truth, pp. 1 - 27Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011