idea entry: week 05: sept 30

word of the week: BODY LANGUAGE
quotes:
"Sense perception is a faculty of receiving the forms of outward objects independently of the matter of which they are composed, just as the wax takes on the figure of the seal without the gold or other metal of which the seal is composed. As the subject of impression, perception involves a movement and a kind of qualitative change; but perception is not merely a passive or receptive affection. It in turn acts, and, distinguishing between the qualities of outward things, becomes “a movement of the soul through the medium of the body.”

"The body is a medium for purposeful creativity. Through it, active change is achieved by integrating the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the individual. The result may be practical such as problem solving, dissolving stress, and healing emotional or physical trauma and pain. Or the result may be as simple as discovering new feelings and finding freedom in unblocked self-expression."

"People often do not realize it, but their body movements are an example of unintentional behaviors that can give away their thoughts to others. Because different personality types exhibit different behaviors, you need to be conscious of how you move, as many times people are able to measure you by the behaviors you display."

"Again unconscious body language can give a lot of information about how a person is feeling or what they are thinking, without actually saying a word. The problem with unconscious body language is that it can sometimes reveal things that we – as individuals – do not want revealed. For example if we are nervous about something we might absentmindedly bite our fingernails or continually rub our eyes. We might drum our fingers on a desk or fidget uncomfortably in our chairs, the list is endless for the physical movements but there are a limited number of emotional corresponders."

annotated source:
"These reflections on temporal objects and experienced time indicate that the flow of our conscious life is the condition for the possibility of the disclosure of temporal objects and experienced time, a condition that begins from the privileged standpoint of the now, which, again, nevertheless occurs in an interplay with past and future rather than in isolation from them. More than this descriptive account of some essential features of time’s appearance, however, Husserl’s phenomenology of time-consciousness concerns itself with the structure of the act of perceiving that allows us to apprehend a temporal object as unified across its manifold moments."

"Phenomenology and Time-Consciousness [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Web. 30 Sept. 2010. .

Why is it that we cannot truly experience life each second as it comes? I would like to think of memory and consciousness and unconsciousness as being stations in an assembly line in our brain. Each second of life passes through our senses, first it reaches the unconsciousness station where we just absorb in the information and our automatic system runs to keep us focus, then the "event" passes through as being a memory, in which is recall and think about it and analyze it, this then becomes the moment we are conscious, as conscious as we can be. Basically, we think we respond quick, but in reality we are delayed in our mental processing. We are only 'conscious' when we recall events from our memory. I believe we always speak in terms of past tense. Example "the show was amazing", notice this is the moment you realize that you have been experiencing something and are now ready to address it. Although cases when you say "the show is amazing," this is you just wishing and wanting it to continue so that later on, you can revisit the experience and say "the show was amazing."

summary:
If our mind could be compared with a camera. It goes like this. When are think we are conscious in our experience, this is when we click the shutter release button. Even though, when we are experiencing we are actually unconscious, this is when the shutter is open and you look through the view finder and cannot see anything, yet. Only when the camera shutter closes and the image is revealed on the back of the camera (digital era) or appears on the film and looked on a light table, this equates to us "evaluating" the event, recalling memories.