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practical inquiry regarding meaning » intelligibility » subjectivity

 
Presence is the goal of subjectivity practically addressed. Presence means the full appreciation of experience in qualitative terms, without attempting to characterize it or determine how it's useful. The taste of a peach can't be captured in a proposition, nor is it useful for anything. To be present means to enjoy the peach—to appreciate it fully—to let one's experience be taken over by it and only it while in the process of eating it.

Simple tasks associated with this goal will include things like not looking at one's phone while at the dinner table with family or friends, like resisting the urge to record the concert instead of dancing, like allowing oneself to experience states during meditation without trying to describe them in such a way that others can be told of them, and so on.

Non-verbal communication skills might also be practiced here—learning how to use body language and style to speak between the lines, as it were—forging connections with others, unmediated by reflective thought.

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