User:Pathfield

My interests concern integral approaches, currently focused on how humans create meaning. Recently I've been examining sensing, affect, and experience; and linguistic ways of processing of these phenomena.

The questions I'm exploring include:

What difference does it make how we make meaning of our lives and of the world of which we are a part?

What are the differences between the felt sense of meaning and the meaning one derives from linguistic processing?

Is there any such thing as "meaning" that doesn't "make sense "?

How does language inform our first-order experience, and how does first-order experience affect our language?

The resources I've been using include: Wilber, Ken Integral Spirituality and most of hi previous books Tomkins, Silvan S., Exploring Affect, E. V. Demos, Ed. Bois, J. S., the art of awareness and Epistemics Theleffsen, Thorkild, Firstness and Thirdness Displacement: Epistemology of Pierce's Sign Trichotomies (online) Damasio, Antonio, Descarte's Error, The Feeling of What Happens, Looking for Spinoza Humphrey, Nicholas, (Seeing Red) Evans, C. O. and Fudjack,John, <U>The Subject of Consciousness</U> and other papers (online)

...and, of course, Wikipedia, particularly for tracking usages of terminology, and for overviews of the history of many of these ideas. Path1 04:07, 10 December 2006 (UTC)