consciousness | Amir Freimann

Amir Freimann

Nov 24, 20224 min read

What is "first person research" good for?

My dear friend Urban Kordes is a professor at the University of Ljubljana, specialized in "first person research". "First person...

Amir Freimann

Nov 24, 20222 min read

Exploring subjective exeprience

Subjective experience is, by one definition, characterized by being known only to the experiencing subject and discloseable only by...

Amir Freimann

Jul 28, 20222 min read

Your brain on fMRI

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an old friend - I'll call her O - who is a very experienced meditator and yoga practitioner. I...

Amir Freimann

Jul 16, 20221 min read

Description of vs thoughts about experience

Recently I had conversations with a few friends about my interest in exploring people's "background experience": those elements of our...

Amir Freimann

Jul 16, 20221 min read

The background experience

One of the central concepts in phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merlo-Ponti, Gadamer et al.) is "horizon" - a word pointing at the...

Amir Freimann

Mar 14, 20221 min read

Psychedelics and Meditation

In a paper by Chris Letheby with the above title, he suggests that psychedelics and meditation can both (1) disrupt self-binding...