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Notes on video lecture:
Principles of Phenomenology
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on February 11, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
there, reverse, vision, action, world, constructing, light, video, carefully, mindfulness, perceived, stable, head, kissing, flips, structure, introspection, walking, Necker, interpretations, reflecting, constitute, passive, lived, spontaneous, choose, consciousness, do
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some people think that the study of                            must be some kind of intellectual selfie
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based on some kind of inner self-examination or                           
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but actually the starting point of phenomenology is to turn away from the selfie an towards the           
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its in the structure of the world that we actually discover the                    of consciousness
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phenomenology is not in your         
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it's in the world we inhabit, the            world
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our first focus will be             
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the experience of seeing
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the mask picture
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does it include a pearl?
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does it include a face?
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are there two people in the picture?
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observe                   , see more
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the is the first rule of phenomenology
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phenomenology is a form of                       
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paying more attention to yourself and your world
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the mask picture
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looks like a face
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yet it is actually a picture of two people               
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it's possible to see both                               
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ambiguous images are well-known
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the duck-rabbit
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the              cube
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textbook perception
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you may have thought as perception as the passive reception of a              scene of unambiguous objects
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the eye, like a camera, simply responds to the light                      from the objects before it and transmits its responses to the brain
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the perceiving mind works like a            camera, entirely responsive to the stable, objective world, it's perception as reception, an essentially                process
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perception as reception leads to some expectations about the experience of seeing, suggesting that what we see is whatever emits or reflects            in the field of vision
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we see just what is            to be seen
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accordingly psychologists often describe the mind's cube reversals while looking at a Necker cube as                       
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the visual system fatigues after the viewing of one interpretation and spontaneously            to the other
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the first principle in phenomenology is the recognition that you can make the image                at will
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in this case we play an active role in forming our own perceptions
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consciousness is a form of             
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perception is not simply something that happens to us
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instead, it is something we     
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we can talk about acts of perception on a par with               , speaking, and so forth
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seeing, and all the other senses, are part of an intentional act of                          our worlds
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the second recognition in phenomenology is
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the duck-rabbit
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the bunniness or the duckihood of the picture depends on how we              to see it
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constitution
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active construction of perceived reality
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"through our act of perception, we                      the objects we perceive, our perceptual activity make the objects of perception what they are for us
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phenomenology
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the deliberate exploration of acts of perception and the constitution of the                    world

Ideas and Concepts:

On the essence of phenomenology via tonight's The Conscious Mind class: "Some people think that the study of consciousness must be some kind of intellectual selfie based on some kind of inner self-examination or introspection, but actually the starting point of phenomenology is to turn away from any kind of introspective selfie and turn towards the world. It's in the structure of the world that we discover the structure of consciousness. Phenomenology is not in your head, it's in the world we inhabit, the lived world, and the first rule of phenomenology is to observe carefully, to see more."
Concept to forge a deeper understanding of the current U.S. presidential race, via this morning's phenomenology class:
On the first principle of phenomenology, via this morning's phenomenology class:

"We tend to think about the perceiving mind as working like a video camera, entirely responsive to the stable, objective world:perception as reception, an essentially passive process. And the concept of perception as reception leads to some expectations about the experience of seeing, suggesting that what we see is whatever emits or reflects light in the field of vision, as if we see just what is there to be seen. A series of lines drawn in the form of a shape such as the Necker cube show that this is not the case, that what we see is not just what is there, but depends on how it is interpreted by the mind, which reverses between the cube facing one direction and one facing the other.

Accordingly psychologists often describe the mind's cube reversals while looking at a Necker cube as spontaneous, caused when the visual system fatigues after the viewing of one interpretation and so switches to the other.

The first principle in phenomenology, however, is the recognition that you can make the image reverse at will, and in this moment you conceive that we play an active role in forming our own perceptions. Perception is not simply something that happens to us. Consciousness is a form of action, it is something we do, something we act out in the world on par with walking, speaking, and so forth. Thus, seeing, and all the other senses, are not simply recording devices, but are tools used in an intentional act of constructing our worlds."
Vocabulary of the mind via tonight's phenomenology class: "constitution, n. the active construction of perceived reality. Through our act of perception, we constitute the objects we perceive, our perceptual activity making the objects of perception what they are for us, phenomenology being the deliberate exploration of acts of perception and our constitution of the perceived world."
Principles of Phenomenology
Semi-sensations and Positional Consciousness
Phenomenological Superposition
Epoché: The Suspended Attitude
The Principle of Interpretive Exclusivity
The Invariance of Intentionality
Subjectivity, Objectivity, and Intentionality
Internal Time Consciousness
The Experience of the Now