for - definition - gestaltic perception - adjacency - pre-linguistic - feral children - gestaltic perception

for - definition - prehension - Whitehead

definition - prehension - defined by Alfred North Whitehead - the feeling that each node of an idea network have for one another

• Think of it as short for comprehension
• Comprehension usually implies more of a conscious sort of rational reflective understanding

• When Whitehead shortens that to prehension

  • he's trying to get at something that is not yet conscious

  • certainly not self-reflective

  • but more of an aesthetic feeling of being permeated by the presence of the other beings
  • in an environment without yet reflecting on the fact

pre-linguistic - see epoche as well, seems related - like the word-less intuition before a precise word is formed to capture the new permutation of salient defining experiences

• So apprehension or feeling is a kind of unconscious apprehension
• So our conscious forms of apprehension or comprehension
  • are a further elaboration upon a much more basic form of apprehension / feeling
  • that Whitehead argued pervades the universe at every scale

• for: synonym - pre-linguistic self - pre-reflective self - minimal self

!- definition : human takeover * The ability for an individual to dynamically govern and author one's own personware. * The takeover gives us agency, rather than victimhood * the takeover can be triggered through realization of the difference between the thought sans image state and the conditioning into the symbolosphere

!- question : spiritual enlightenment and personware * An interesting question is: "How does enlightenment impact the personware? " * Obviously, enlightenment cannot be an act of removing the personware. Language once learned cannot simply be meditated away. * Does the act of enlightenment then make the personware dramatically known to the individual as if it were indeed like a suit that we are wearing and not our fundamental nature? * Does enlightenment allow us to get more in contact with the prelinguistic and prepersonal

!- in other words : thought sans image * pre-linguistic, pre-iconic - Gyuri Lajos would call "tacit awareness"

!- reference : Gyuri Lajos * tacit awareness