Composing Experience

Perceiving and interacting with the world around you — a Feldenkrais perspective

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Memory and Expectations

December 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Choice, Feldenkrais, Perception, Perceptual process

This entry is part 6 of 8 in the series Perception

Past experience and what you learn from it play a significant role in shaping your perceptions and your current experience. The examples we’ve looked at so far make that clear. That’s why you could recognize things like faces and vases, characters like B and 13, and four suites of playing cards — two red and [...]

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The Importance of Context

December 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Choice, Perception, Perceptual process, contains video

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series Perception

I’ve described composing experience as a process of selecting and assembling bits of information from an ongoing perceptual stream into the multidimensional images we use to experience the world around us. The familiar faces/vase figure provided one example of how using information from different parts of the perceptual stream can produce different experiences, while the [...]

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The Perceptual Process Model

October 12th, 2007 · No Comments · Choice, Perception, Perceptual process, somatic organization

This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Perception

Think of experience as having two primary components, perception and action. Perception includes those processes through which you know yourself and the world around you — vision, hearing, proprioception (body awareness, balance, position in space, movement), intellectual and intuitive understanding, etc. Action encompasses what you do to interact with that world — getting a drink [...]

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