for: Michel Bilbot, transcendental, transcendental - Kant, awakening, non-dual, nondual, nonduality, non-duality, emptiness, epoche, Maurice Merle-Ponty, perspective shift, perspective shift - transcendental

summary

• Michel Bilbot gives an extremely important talk on two related themes
  • Kant's concept of the idea of transcendental
  • Husserl's concept of epoche / phenomenological reduction
    • definition here:
      • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiep.utm.edu%2Fphen-red%2F&group=world
  • comparison of two perspectives of science as
    • panpsychism where atomic theories of materialism are held to be theories of everything
    • Husserl's phenomenology of human experience
• Bilbot points out the situatedness each individual is born into life with. Even acts such as visually seeing reveal our situatedness as a seer with clues such as perspective that reveals structures of the seer such as vanishing point.

adjacency

• between
  • Kant's transcendental
  • Husserl / Maurice Merle-Ponty / Heidegger's phenomenology and epoche / phenomenological reduction methodology
  • eastern mysticism and philosophical ideas:
    • nonduality - dissolution of the self / other dualism
    • awakening
    • enlightenment
    • emptiness
• adjacency statement
  • Michel Bilbot establishes the important foundation of one of Kant's major life works on the transcendental, and how Husserl's phenomenology and related process of the phenomenological reduction (epoche) is critical to understanding Husserl and Kant.
  • He then applies it to an analysis and comparison of science seen from two contrasting perspectives, atomic theories of panpsychism vs phenomenology.
  • Bilbot reveals that Husserl was deeply influenced by Buddhist thought

• There is an experience in which it is possible for us to come to the world with no knowledge or preconceptions in hand;
• it is the experience of astonishment.
  • The “knowing” we have in this experience stands in stark contrast to
  • the “knowing” we have in our everyday lives, where we come to the world with
    • theory and
    • “knowledge” in hand,
    • our minds already made up before we ever engage the world.
• However, in the experience of astonishment,
  • our everyday “knowing,” when compared to
  • the “knowing” that we experience in astonishment,
• is shown up as a pale epistemological imposter and is reduced to mere opinion by comparison.
• The phenomenological reduction (aka epoche)
• is at once
  • a description and
  • prescription
• of a technique that allows one to voluntarily sustain the awakening force of astonishment
  • so that conceptual cognition can be carried throughout intentional analysis,
  • thus bringing the “knowing” of astonishment into our everyday experience.