There has been a tendency to focus on consciousness as if it were
an intrinsically “interior” phenomenon or “inner reality” invisible to ordinary
perception.
I think this way of thinking about consciousness is distorted. It
operates within the reified categories of “internal” and “external.” These categories are inadequate for understanding how human experience is constituted
by our lived body and interpersonal social world.
We see the experience of
shame in the blushing face, perplexed thought in the furrowed brow, joy in
the smiling face; we do not infer their existence as 'internal'
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