Thanks for the exercise. It’s a bit unclear to me how setting a sensation (3) aside is different from maximally de-amplifying it (2). There’s something about a qualitative gap between the question of whether a sensation is present in awareness at all vs the question of, if it’s present, how intensely salient it is?
Thanks for the exercise. It’s a bit unclear to me how setting a sensation (3) aside is different from maximally de-amplifying it (2). There’s something about a qualitative gap between the question of whether a sensation is present in awareness at all vs the question of, if it’s present, how intensely salient it is?
Yes.
A scaffolding question is "what is excluded"? or "what is not included"?
What is not even included cannot be amplified or diminished.
Manipulating experience via trying to "tune out" background noise vs. not even being present to the sensation of the soles of your feet on the floor.
Ahh yes, that example helps a lot.