Felt experience trumps logic
Felt experience trumps logic. By "trumps" is meant that "felt experience" begins where human "logic" ends.
Being "felt," it touches one's senses. This felt touch titillates, stimulates and gives palpable notice of its presence to that particular person.
Each feeling, in turn, independently and collectively, engages bodily functions and systems: cranial, neurological, psychological, musculoskeletal, endocrinological, and others.
Also engaged are the non-bodily systems known as the spiritual, the mantic, the inert, the Holy Ghost.
At each level of engagement, vital information is processed ahead of conscious perception, often independent of conscious perception.
Logic, by contrast, is confined to the mind and its constructs; to the manipulative extensions of the mind; to graphics and symbols in aid of the mind's mental processes.
Logic packages and synthesizes sets of information derived from the senses into systemic units and categories, ergo "logical." All-Powerful when working with what "is," and with what is reasonably deducible therefrom, logic falls short where its paved road, its bread crumbs, its data, ends!
That is where the felt experience takes over, receives the baton from logic. Actually, they are connubial, conjoined, not nearly as separate as they are reputed to be, as the verb "trumped" suggests. They are like seasons, like phases of the moon. Each phase waxes and wanes in season on the same moon or body.
Felt experience supplies answers after logic is exhausted. Yet, logic serves as a platform for, and frequently informs, the felt experience, even as it propels it.
The example of Einstein's analogy of the visualization of a beam of light as a teenager, his felt experience, that later, after training--logic--enabled his formulation of the special theory of relativity, is fusion of both.
Another example of felt experience is African American music: From spirituals, to blues and jazz, to rhythm and blues, to hip hop/rap, and assorted permutations.
The rubric "soul music" covers these autochthonous African American "felt" creations which welled up from their creators' spirits into popular and world culture. These soulful, "felt" creations paralleled Western "white" music forms, while differing from them in motif and substance.
The felt-logic synergy explains much that is true about the African American experience. This felt-logic conjunction makes America, America, historically. It also makes America magnificent, presently!
Their fusion holds future promise to the nation and to the world beyond.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Felt experience trumps logic
Felt experience trumps logic
Felt experience trumps logic. By "trumps" is meant that "felt experience" begins where human "logic" ends.
Being "felt," it touches one's senses. This felt touch titillates, stimulates and gives palpable notice of its presence to that particular person.
Each feeling, in turn, independently and collectively, engages bodily functions and systems: cranial, neurological, psychological, musculoskeletal, endocrinological, and others.
Also engaged are the non-bodily systems known as the spiritual, the mantic, the inert, the Holy Ghost.
At each level of engagement, vital information is processed ahead of conscious perception, often independent of conscious perception.
Logic, by contrast, is confined to the mind and its constructs; to the manipulative extensions of the mind; to graphics and symbols in aid of the mind's mental processes.
Logic packages and synthesizes sets of information derived from the senses into systemic units and categories, ergo "logical." All-Powerful when working with what "is," and with what is reasonably deducible therefrom, logic falls short where its paved road, its bread crumbs, its data, ends!
That is where the felt experience takes over, receives the baton from logic. Actually, they are connubial, conjoined, not nearly as separate as they are reputed to be, as the verb "trumped" suggests. They are like seasons, like phases of the moon. Each phase waxes and wanes in season on the same moon or body.
Felt experience supplies answers after logic is exhausted. Yet, logic serves as a platform for, and frequently informs, the felt experience, even as it propels it.
The example of Einstein's analogy of the visualization of a beam of light as a teenager, his felt experience, that later, after training--logic--enabled his formulation of the special theory of relativity, is fusion of both.
Another example of felt experience is African American music: From spirituals, to blues and jazz, to rhythm and blues, to hip hop/rap, and assorted permutations.
The rubric "soul music" covers these autochthonous African American "felt" creations which welled up from their creators' spirits into popular and world culture. These soulful, "felt" creations paralleled Western "white" music forms, while differing from them in motif and substance.
The felt-logic synergy explains much that is true about the African American experience. This felt-logic conjunction makes America, America, historically. It also makes America magnificent, presently!
Their fusion holds future promise to the nation and to the world beyond.