POV
The 21st-century human being, perhaps more than any who came before, appears fundamentally tethered to the primacy of subjective experience. This is etched into our habits, reflected in our technologies, and echoed in our conversations : an ever-expanding pursuit of experience for the sake of it—layered, curated, intensified—driven less by meaning than by the momentum of seeking.
Then what is it, that is everywhere but always looked for ?
Experience, as the space of consciousness, is inherently subjective—undoubtedly both virtual and real—and so deeply natural that it can appear, in fact, artificial. It is our most intimate possession—what makes the red you see that redness it is. The paradox is that our own experience is the only aspect of reality each of us is absolutely certain of, while remaining one of science’s most persistent “hard problems” to explain, ever since the cognitive revolution nearly 75,000 years ago.
Being so fundamentally qualitative, human experience— in its truest but most absurd form—can’t be measured. It’s always there, always streaming, and thus simply has no quantitative value. Some people are content in the midst of deprivation and danger, while others feel miserable despite having all the pleasures of the world. This is not to say that external circumstances do not matter—but it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that largely determines the quality of your experience. Your mind is the basis and origin of everything you live, and of every contribution you make to the lives of others. It is fundamentally all there is—and given this limited means—it might make sense to observe, understand, and even investigate this mind.
Recognizing experience in the form of a spatially structuring process (and not as an accumulation of moments) is an unconventional way to think of a space as a field of sensorial information rather than a static object—something that can be navigated, practiced and responded to, while simply mirroring the only content we can ever have in mind: experience itself.
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