Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Moments of Truth
- 2 Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
- 3 Apprehending Pristine Experience
- 4 Everyday Experience
- 5 Moments Are Essential
- 6 Experience in Tourette's Syndrome
- 7 The Moment (Not): Happy and Sad
- 8 Subjunctification
- 9 Before and After Experience? Adolescence and Old Age
- 10 Iteration Is Essential
- 11 Epistemological Q/A
- 12 A Consciousness Scientist as DES Subject
- 13 Pristine Experience (Not): Emotion and Schizophrenia
- 14 Multiple Autonomous Experience in a Virtuoso Musician
- 15 Unsymbolized Thinking
- 16 Sensory Awareness
- 17 The Radical Non-subjectivity of Pristine Experience
- 18 Diamonds versus Glass
- 19 Into the Floor: A Right-or-Wrong-Answer Natural Experiment
- 20 The Emergence of Salient Characteristics
- 21 Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Appendix: List of Constraints
- References
- Index
2 - Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Moments of Truth
- 2 Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
- 3 Apprehending Pristine Experience
- 4 Everyday Experience
- 5 Moments Are Essential
- 6 Experience in Tourette's Syndrome
- 7 The Moment (Not): Happy and Sad
- 8 Subjunctification
- 9 Before and After Experience? Adolescence and Old Age
- 10 Iteration Is Essential
- 11 Epistemological Q/A
- 12 A Consciousness Scientist as DES Subject
- 13 Pristine Experience (Not): Emotion and Schizophrenia
- 14 Multiple Autonomous Experience in a Virtuoso Musician
- 15 Unsymbolized Thinking
- 16 Sensory Awareness
- 17 The Radical Non-subjectivity of Pristine Experience
- 18 Diamonds versus Glass
- 19 Into the Floor: A Right-or-Wrong-Answer Natural Experiment
- 20 The Emergence of Salient Characteristics
- 21 Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Appendix: List of Constraints
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 1 made the case, preliminarily, that it was possible to describe moments of truth, bits of pristine experience. We discussed what we called a Catch-484: You can't really understand moments without first understanding experience and genuinely submitting to the constraints that the apprehension of experience imposes; you can't genuinely submit to the constraints without first understanding moments and experience; and you can't really understand experience without first understanding moments and genuinely submitting to the constraints.
We said that the way out of a Catch-484 is to start anywhere: Start, say, with a little discussion of moments, so that then we can have a little discussion of experience, so that then we can have a little discussion of the constraints, so that then we can have a deeper discussion of moments, so that we can have a deeper discussion of experience, and so on. It is a screwy (meant literally) approach; each turn of the screw takes us a little deeper, a little more securely, into exactly the same moments ↔ experience ↔ genuinely-submitting-to-the-constraints place that we started from.
The present chapter will focus primarily on experience. However, moments, experience, and the constraints co-determine each other, so every discussion of experience is also a discussion of moments and the constraints – we can never talk about one while completely ignoring the other two. The illustration at the top of this chapter is intended to convey this: Chapter 2 will focus primarily on experience but will always keep moments and the constraints in mind.
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- Investigating Pristine Inner ExperienceMoments of Truth, pp. 28 - 48Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011