Yeah, I know, I am being a bit tongue in cheek. At least I didn’t descend into talking about watching TV as a meditative practice. There is a serious purpose here though; which is to pay attention to how knowledge is embodied. I see embodiment as an intermediate stage of understanding knowing, between two extremes — the first where we think of knowledge as a property of our brains and the other knowledge is seen as an abstract logical entity. So, for example, if you look at the way in which you surf the internet (and some derivative features, such as your bookmarks), paying attention to the websites you visit and so on, you practice a way of knowing. These practices elicit a knowledge that is part of your extended mind, one that can rarely be articulated in any explicit manner but that you can demonstrate implicitly via the clicks you make you’re your mouse.
Websurfing as a meditative practice
Websurfing as a meditative practice
Websurfing as a meditative practice
Yeah, I know, I am being a bit tongue in cheek. At least I didn’t descend into talking about watching TV as a meditative practice. There is a serious purpose here though; which is to pay attention to how knowledge is embodied. I see embodiment as an intermediate stage of understanding knowing, between two extremes — the first where we think of knowledge as a property of our brains and the other knowledge is seen as an abstract logical entity. So, for example, if you look at the way in which you surf the internet (and some derivative features, such as your bookmarks), paying attention to the websites you visit and so on, you practice a way of knowing. These practices elicit a knowledge that is part of your extended mind, one that can rarely be articulated in any explicit manner but that you can demonstrate implicitly via the clicks you make you’re your mouse.