has anyone written anything worth reading about the epistemology of circling?
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Replying to @tasshinfogleman
I would love to bloviate on this topic! Got a specific question? You mentioned something at MAPLE about "I have a sense that you're feeling X, how do I know that," is that the kind of thing you mean?
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Replying to @tasshinfogleman
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...
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan @tasshinfogleman
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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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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