Phenomenology15 as a perceptual concept
means that we experience and perceive
phenomena of events, subjectively and/or
objectively, so consciousness ‘directly,’ which
we understand consciously to a degree, or
subconsciously absorb, or are unconscious
of. Phenomenology can be applied to a
range of disciplines and is usually associated with philosophy and awakening to states
of the illumination of self to Self. The very
intimacy of our conscious experience, where
we are ‘up close and personal’ to our self/
Self, means we react to the content of our
individuated consciousness in a process of
adaptation to experience: internal/external.
We know we have and want self-consciousness, particularly when we feel pleasure,
happy, content, and joyfulness. When all is
not so hunky dory in the psyche, we blame
others and don’t want self-consciousness,
we feel angry, aggrieved, and jealous, as
we carry around a bottle of pepper spray
in our unhappy, unloved mind. And ‘it is
entirely someone elses fault.’ We lash out,
then regret. We split in perception from our
own subconscious, conscious/consciousness
content, saying: “I was beside myself ...
I don’t know what came over me ... it isn’t/
wasn’t like me ... how on this earth did this
happen?” And finally, alone in maladaptive
recriminations, ‘I hate myself ... I could kill
myself’ and we do. ‘I hate you, could kill you,
and we do.’
Consciousness, though we have or are
consciousness this much we know. In
regard to its ultimate location and origin,
that has proven difficult to find, though
simple to define as ‘a quality of awareness’
or ‘inward awareness.’ With the concomitants from ancient and evolving awareness
of thoughts, ideas, philosophy, words, science, and meaning, from the likes of Persia,
Arabia, India, Indo-European, Latin, Greek,
Germanic, French and English, etymologies
of our collective, oft unwieldy, consciousness
and emergent individuated intelligence.
Intelligence16
“Intelligere” ~ from the Latin meaning “
realization or understanding” composed
of “inter” (between) and “legere” (choose
or pick out).
We understand with intelligence, and
with knowing we ‘recognise’ or ‘identify’
some-thing, or ‘know about’ some-thing.
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From the Greek phainómenon “that which appears” and lógos “study.”
From Latin intelligere “understand” and Latin intelligentia