Absolutely glorious sunset this evening at the park. I could actually sit and watch sunsets for hours. My favourite thing is sitting there on the hill watching the sun go slowly from being the bright, vibrant yellow ball of fire it is, to the red ball of fire going down behind the city. The sky colour change is amazing too. Sunsets are the best. With some good tunes, food, and possibly company (although it’s very therapudic being there by yourself in your own thoughts). Nothing better.

This week I read chapter 3 of Alien Phenomenology.

I re-read the first 12 pages and highlighted key points/ideas, wrote annotations on the side including definitions (in red) and questions. I have so many questions already.

I also jotted down those key ideas into my notebook to refer back to later. I’ll also write in my questions.

I found this chapter much more interesting than chapter 2. I like the concept of having two completely different perceptions of an experience. “The subject nature of our experience makes the unit operation of one of it’s perceptions amount always to a caricature in which the one is drawn in the distorted impression of the other” -> obviously having two sides means one is going to be distorted to the other and vise-versa.

The examples of the bat (“imagining what it’s like to be a bat is not the same as being a bat”pp.63) and the camera (“the camera doesn’t see like a human eye…. the camera’s experience of perception differs from our understanding of the camera’s experience of perception”pp.72) were extremely helpful in understanding the concept. A really simple way of explaining a complex theory.