has anyone written anything worth reading about the epistemology of circling?
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Hm, so several possible levels of explanation here. There's like "we evolved to detect each other's feelings," there's like "detecting feelings is key to relating to others so we (mostly) learn to do it growing up," there's like the phenomenology of reading facial tension...
Gonna go ahead and assume the phenomenology is the most interesting direction. My experience of it is that when I'm really paying attention to a face (or a body) my read on it sort of just arises out of emptiness, the way poetry sometimes does, or a felt sense label.
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another way to put it: a) phenomenologically it seems like I can feel/understand others’ experience b) my intuition is to trust that, c) rationally I am uncertain how much to trust it, and what good epistemology (if there is such a thing) would say about this uncharted territory
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also d) the part of me that trusts my experience is sorta pissed off that part of me distrusts it, and also that epistemology I’ve seen is so... cowardly
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Furthermore my ability to do this was blocked by emotional stuff and when I cleared the emotional stuff out of the way it just started happening naturally; it doesn't really feel like a skill I've developed, more like a sense I've removed obstacles to using.
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