Centre for Technology and Phenomenological Research

The primary aim of the Centre for Technology and Phenomenological Research is to conduct and facilitate research into the nature of subjective experience in itself, but also into how it is influenced and shaped by the dual necessities of intersubjectivity and technology.

Consciousness is not located in the head, but is immanent in the living body in its interpersonal social world. Consciousness of myself as an embodied individual embedded in the world emerges through a blend of perception, movement, and intersubjective, empathic cognition of others.

Consciousness is not some peculiar qualitative aspect of private mental states, nor a property of the brain inside the skull; it is a relational mode of being of the whole person embedded in the natural environment and the human social world. Now, with the final passing of the emphasis on the purely cognitive and computationally-friendly aspects of being, there is the opportunity to establish a broader science, possibly even to establish a more fully-comprehensive account of being-in-the-world from phenomenological and technological perspectives.

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