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Full Idea
When Dasein directs itself towards something and grasps it, it does not somehow first get out of an inner sphere in which it has been proximally encapsulated, but its primary kind of Being is such that it is always 'outside' alongside entities.
Gist of Idea
When Dasein grasps something it exists externally alongside the thing
Source
Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], I.2.13)
Book Ref
Heidegger,Martin: 'Being and Time' [Blackwell 1962], p.89
A Reaction
This is the first plausible fruit of phenomenology I have been able to discover. Analysing the passive mind is not very promising, but seeing what happens when we become more proactive is revealing.
| 1735 | In a way the soul is everything which exists, through its perceptions and thoughts [Aristotle] |
| 22978 | Memory is so vast that I cannot recognise it as part of my mind [Augustine] |
| 22164 | When Dasein grasps something it exists externally alongside the thing [Heidegger] |
| 12602 | There is no natural border between inner and outer [Harman] |
| 12603 | We can only describe mental attitudes in relation to the external world [Harman] |
| 8126 | Anti-individualism says the environment is involved in the individuation of some mental states [Burge] |
| 8127 | Broad concepts suggest an extension of the mind into the environment (less computer-like) [Burge] |
| 6176 | A mechanism can count as 'cognitive' whether it is in the brain or outside it [Clark/Chalmers, by Rowlands] |
| 19741 | If something in the world could equally have been a mental process, it is part of our cognition [Clark/Chalmers] |
| 19742 | Consciousness may not extend beyond the head, but cognition need not be conscious [Clark/Chalmers] |
| 6173 | Content externalism implies that we do not have privileged access to our own minds [Rowlands] |
| 6174 | If someone is secretly transported to Twin Earth, others know their thoughts better than they do [Rowlands] |