stilles Entzücken (?silent delight?) invisible smile natural state calm awe
sensationsloses staunen - nonsensational awe existential ease
inner knowing that i am not maleficent (bösartig)
with that inner knowing i can be natural
without i feel adjitated and start reacting a
what is the context of "organ of perception"
sensing/cognizing/predicting morality
It is therefore only to be expected that a state lacking all the features of the hectic everyday mind should be experienced as peaceful and holistic.
As I will explain in slightly greater detail in this discussion, neuroscientists use the term ?tonic alertness? to describe that aspect of alertness that is sustained independently of external stimuli and not triggered by cues from the environment. This contrasts with what is called ?phasic alertness,? which is caused by sudden events like a loud noise or salient and unexpected changes in brightness, contrast, and the like. A specific phenomenal quality goes along with the first variety?the subjective, conscious experience of cue-independent tonic alertness?and it has been largely ignored by the philosophy of mind and consciousness. From now on I will call this quality ?wakefulness.? In meditation, the phenomenal character of wakefulness can be much more dominant than it is in ordinary wake states. The experience of bare wakefulness itself is effortless, calm, and entirely nonconceptual.
tonic alertness phasic alertness
explorative orientation defensive orientation
dispositional state affects
openess to experience
levels of description physical, functional, phenomenological
is the new theory of the body attempting to describe from the physical?