Composing Experience

Earlier this year I got distracted by other interests and pretty much abandoned this blog. I’m restarting it, and intend to post more frequently.

I’m also restructuring the way material is presented. Last year I set it up as an ongoing manuscript that should be read in logical order, rather than in reverse chronological order as a blog. That was part of what got me off track and away from writing, because I felt like I had to plan several chapters ahead and make it all coherent. I’m going to give up the goal of that kind of continuity and let myself write in a more spontaneous way, with the posts appearing as they are written. When several deal with the same or closely allied subjects I’ll then pull then together into series and provide alternative links to access that series in the appropriate order.

The material I wrote last year constitutes the first such series, now titled Perception. In terms of my overall thinking it constitutes a fairly self-contained piece, describing the nature of perception and the basic processes we use to construct our experience. Future series will deal with things like the nature of action, of emotional experience, and whatever other patterns emerge as I write.