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goal of phenomenology

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to see more, specifically to observe in an active, energetic and creative way, looking for possibilities, including the unlikely

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this approach to observation replaces the textbook conception of perception

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the textbook picture of perception reception seems tied to available light

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perception is not just limited to what the light affords

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you see the sides of a cube that face you

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the sides that reflect light onto your retina

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but we don't see the bundle of light rays

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we don't see images on the retina

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we don't see impulses on the brain

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we see the cube

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what the intermediaries fail to give us is the thing which is before us, but it is that thing, not the intermediaries

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to posit, v.

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the constituting awareness of objects as external, as out there outside the mind

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consciousness posits external objects which means consciousnesses assigns to the object outside of me, I'm here but it's there

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this is positional consciousness

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to see the cube as a cube is to see it outside of us in a specific location in a space around us

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also: objectivate, an awkward synonym

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when you look at a cube, you see a six-sided solid, some parts we can see and some we can't

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we have a very distinctive awareness of what those parts are like

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the hidden sides of the cube are constituted by something like imagination

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but imagination is more flexible

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the back sides of the cube are less flexible

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the sensation of the hidden parts are a semi-sensation

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between imagination and visual sensations

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folded into sensation is a lot of extra-sensory perception

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the semi-sensations of sensory properties unseen and unfelt

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our perception goes beyond sensation, filling in dimensions of the sensory world with features that turn the flat image into a scene of things with a space that has us in the middle of it

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we see, or semi-see, objects that are invisible to the eye, but these hidden facets are only one part of our sensory world