Merleau-Ponty never wrote a phenomenology of sympathy.But his use of sympathy in accounting for human relationships parallels in intent and manner his treatment of perception in the Phenomenology.}In addressing the paradox of alterity, he draws an analogy between perception and sympathy: just as perceptual consciousness founds intersubjective thematic experience, in the same way pre-personal...
It seems to be a common belief that in the future, if not in the present, digital computers are going to be capable of cognitive states, experiences, and consciousness equal in every respect to that which exists in human beings. 1 Not everyone, however, is so optimistic. One such skeptic is John Searle and his Minds, Brains, and Programs 2 represents a direct confrontation between the skeptic...
Tuedio "Hearts remote yet not asunder Distance and no space was seen So between them love did shine Either was the other's mine." -GoetheThe engagement in lived-immediacy is a "timeless" moment that endures.Lacking all conceptual dimensionality, this experience not only "envelops" the participant, but also leaves him thoroughly suspended beyond the limitations of personality.In short, there is...