Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Moments of Truth
- 2 Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
- 3 Apprehending Pristine Experience
- 4 Everyday Experience
- 5 Moments Are Essential
- 6 Experience in Tourette's Syndrome
- 7 The Moment (Not): Happy and Sad
- 8 Subjunctification
- 9 Before and After Experience? Adolescence and Old Age
- 10 Iteration Is Essential
- 11 Epistemological Q/A
- 12 A Consciousness Scientist as DES Subject
- 13 Pristine Experience (Not): Emotion and Schizophrenia
- 14 Multiple Autonomous Experience in a Virtuoso Musician
- 15 Unsymbolized Thinking
- 16 Sensory Awareness
- 17 The Radical Non-subjectivity of Pristine Experience
- 18 Diamonds versus Glass
- 19 Into the Floor: A Right-or-Wrong-Answer Natural Experiment
- 20 The Emergence of Salient Characteristics
- 21 Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Appendix: List of Constraints
- References
- Index
8 - Subjunctification
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Moments of Truth
- 2 Fragmented Experience in Bulimia Nervosa
- 3 Apprehending Pristine Experience
- 4 Everyday Experience
- 5 Moments Are Essential
- 6 Experience in Tourette's Syndrome
- 7 The Moment (Not): Happy and Sad
- 8 Subjunctification
- 9 Before and After Experience? Adolescence and Old Age
- 10 Iteration Is Essential
- 11 Epistemological Q/A
- 12 A Consciousness Scientist as DES Subject
- 13 Pristine Experience (Not): Emotion and Schizophrenia
- 14 Multiple Autonomous Experience in a Virtuoso Musician
- 15 Unsymbolized Thinking
- 16 Sensory Awareness
- 17 The Radical Non-subjectivity of Pristine Experience
- 18 Diamonds versus Glass
- 19 Into the Floor: A Right-or-Wrong-Answer Natural Experiment
- 20 The Emergence of Salient Characteristics
- 21 Investigating Pristine Inner Experience
- Appendix: List of Constraints
- References
- Index
Summary
Our aim in the present chapter is to deepen our understanding of the constraints that the exploration of experience imposes by highlighting one important methodological thread: subjunctification.
Q: Subjunctification again? Haven't we talked about that enough?
A: I agree that it may seem redundant. However, I think it necessary to turn the screw gradually into such concepts, to build progressively the skills of recognizing and appreciating subjunctification. Skill acquisition does not happen in one shot; the appreciation for subjunctification is the result of repeated contact in a variety of situations. Since we last focused on subjunctification, we have deepened our appreciation of moments and experience; now we're ready for a deeper grasp of subjunctification.
To appreciate experience, you have to appreciate the genuine submission to the constraints that the apprehension of experience imposes. Appreciating subjunctification is an important constraint.
As you will recall, DES asks only one thing of its subjects: to give a straightforward description of experience that was ongoing at the moment of some beep. We call a subjunctifier anything that gives a sign that a subject's utterance is not to be confidently understood as a straightforward description of momentary experience. Subjunctifiers include
Verb forms in the subjunctive mood (e.g., “I would think,” “If I were”). The subjunctive mood grammatically signals that what follows is contrary to fact. “I would think that I was hearing the TV” means “I have no directly recalled experience of hearing the TV.”
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- Investigating Pristine Inner ExperienceMoments of Truth, pp. 116 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011