Back to the Rainbow

Phenomenology describes experience as experienced - it's an objective approach to subjective experience.

From this perspective, the world is a very strange place, because, as it turns out, there is a lot that we just aren't that tuned into - that we don't experience directly, or consciously.

For instance, the following are all invisible to the unaided eye of any human observer:

- your own face
- your own head
- your own heart
- your own guts
- your own eyes

The following are all things that the observer has never touched:

- the Sun
- the Moon
- a rainbow
- your guts

So what, you say?

First, note that this 'lived experience' isn't random, nor only subjective. Anyone can confirm for themselves that they can't see their own face directly. Anyone.

No one has ever touched a rainbow. You can confirm for yourself, that you have never touched a rainbow, I can confirm that I have never touched one, and everyone can do the same.

No one has touched their own medulla oblongata.

No one has seen or touched, directly, lots of things in existence.

Second, this 'lived experience', with all its gaps in experience, is in fact the only experience you have.

Third, this lived experience is the only experience that any and every scientist has, had, or will have.