The following pieces emerge directly from research conducted through the mechanism of this blog.

• Sharing Space Through Three-Dimensional Consciousness

The conscious experience of being human seems to be partly constructed by the physics of the space in which that being feels itself to be embedded. There is an uncanny match between the formulation of space articulated in the axioms of naïve physics, roughly approximating Cartesian/Newtonian physics, and the feeling of being. This feeling of being might be described as a sense that one’s body is a single object with a clear boundary, existing at a single location in an extended 3 dimensional space, a feeling which is also extended to the mind, and the feeling that one is a singular entity, reasonably whole and separated in space from other entities, exactly here, precisely now. This physical environment, however problematised by post-newtonian physics is nevertheless the one in which human action and interaction takes place.

It seems likely that this match is in part produced through an internalisation of the physics of this space by the operation of the human sensorium, including the visual apparatus. Which begs the question; what would being be like to if space were different? The relationship between a space constructed with the aid of alternative visual systems and the experience of ‘being’ in those spaces is discussed with reference to experiments carried out by the author in simulating these alternative visual systems.

Presented at the 2006 Conference of Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Conference - “Exploring the Boundaries of Experience and the Self.




• Symbols and Schemata: the use of visual and sensorimotor metaphors within knowledge acquisition in the arts

2nd International Conference; Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts. Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, 5-7 May, 2007