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  • Husserl's phenomenology, especially his views on epoche in his later years lean more towards panpsychism although they are different in a nuanced way.
  • there is direct, pure biological phenomenological experience ,- Epoche may give us a taste of it, interment meditation may go further and the deepest meditation of decades of intense practice may re-immerse us in it.
  • Feral children who grow into feral adults, an extremely rare occurrence, may have an immersive experience of it
  • social conditioning of language bind meaning tightly to our construction and experience of objects in our sensory field
  • it is extremely difficult to disentangle our conditioned meaning with prelinguistic phenomenological experience of reality
  • spiritual awakening or enlightenment would appear to show that it is possible
  • When we attach such strong meaning to ideas, such as to scientific ideas, "material* objects, in spite of their attached, implicit symbolic complexity, appear to have a natural, autonomous and obvious existence.
  • in this way, our conscious constructs become solidified and mistaken for concrete, autonomously existent objects. Consciousness then comes to mistaken variants of consciousness itself with autonomously existent objects

Clark, C. (2021). The Blame Efficiency Hypothesis: An Evolutionary Framework to Resolve Rationalist and Intuitionist Theories of Moral Condemnation.