First time saw this man. Think he was astonishing. Yet so simple. What strokes me is that how the purest and greatest people and professionals mostly comes from the simplest , even poorest environment. But this simple ground of a family, caring and responsibility brings brilliant fruits. Simple wordly ground. This to me is Blessing of Life.
After watching it many times, my favourite thing about this interview is around 10:30 when he talks about human colour vision and says it is “completely identical across all human beings cross-culturally”, and concedes that the better comparison of this “multiversality” concept in the domain of vision is between humans and other species (his example being birds). Yet, we get these interesting phenomena, like the case of “The dress” in 2015, that show us there can be surprising differences in human colour perception. So, his theory about “multiversality” holds even stronger than he thought in this video.
Tristan Dry As Professor Varela says in the interview, putting your attention and energy on any of the traditions that has understand this insight. Btw he was a well known Buddhist meditator so you can start your journey there.
At page 217, first of the 10th chapter from the book Embodied Mind (1991; Varela, Thompson and Rosch), we have some clues about this subject: "Our journey has now brought us to the point where we can appreciate that what we took to be solid ground is really more like shifting sand beneath our feet. We began with our common sense as cognitive scientists and found that our cognition emerges from the background of a world that extends beyond us but that cannot be found apart from our embodiment. When we shifted our attention away from this fundamental circularity to follow the movement of cognition alone, we found that we could discern no subjective ground, no permanent and abiding ego-self. When we tried to find the objective ground that we thought must still be present, we found a world enacted by our history of structural coupling. Finally, we saw that these various forms of groundlessness are really one: organism and environment enfold into each other and unfold from one another in the fundamental circularity that is life itself". PS. Indeed, this whole chapter aims to the groundlessness of experience and to answer precisely your question!
What goes with mind? Brain-And, what do you mean embodied? This classic book, first published in 1991 was one of the first to propose the embodied cognition, approach in cognitive science. As if, a mind reading science, the brain is our main component you dilly your fingers and toes because your brain is commanding you too, but what can you cure, not logic. How bout neon's & repeating yourself? Thank you...Lisa