I believe the mind is almost wholly transparent: it presents the world to us, not itself. It's all message, no medium.
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An uneducated question (which might perhaps be best answered with a reference to some reading): What aspects of the mind are presented (as opposed to inferred)? Qualia? Mental activities?
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I would say mental activities -- see my chapter on mental imagery in Mind in Life and my discussion of lucid dreaming in Waking, Dreaming, Being (if you'll pardon the self-citation)
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And as Yogācāra philosophers note, we are really bad at knowing where to look, and most of the places that we look provide us with a distorted understanding of the world...
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Except this makes it sound like we have to look in a special place, whereas I'd say it's more about how, not where, we look
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The body is not to be understood as a medium between me and the world. Rather, our primary being-in-the-world has the form of an embodied existence. Thus, we cannot first study the body, and next investigate it in its relation to the world.
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PS. I can say “we are navigating the world through our bodies.” The world is given to us as bodily explored, and the body is revealed to us in its exploration of the world.
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@evantthompson I agree with you. This seems plausible.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Knowing is doing; doing is knowing. --H Maturana
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