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Amir Freimann
Jan 5, 20231 min read
Spiritual and/or other positive experiences
Experiences are, by the way they are commonly perceived and defined, limited on both sides by other experiences. Sensations, thoughts,...
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Amir Freimann
Nov 24, 20224 min read
What is "first person research" good for?
My dear friend Urban Kordes is a professor at the University of Ljubljana, specialized in "first person research". "First person...
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Amir Freimann
Nov 24, 20222 min read
Exploring subjective exeprience
Subjective experience is, by one definition, characterized by being known only to the experiencing subject and discloseable only by...
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Amir Freimann
Jul 28, 20222 min read
Your brain on fMRI
A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an old friend - I'll call her O - who is a very experienced meditator and yoga practitioner. I...
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Amir Freimann
Jul 16, 20221 min read
Description of vs thoughts about experience
Recently I had conversations with a few friends about my interest in exploring people's "background experience": those elements of our...
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Amir Freimann
Jul 16, 20221 min read
The background experience
One of the central concepts in phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merlo-Ponti, Gadamer et al.) is "horizon" - a word pointing at the...
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