▼ Seeing Objects Creates Agency

▲ Turtles All The Way Down ▼

A quote from my interview with Justin at The Amazing World of Psychiatry:

But maybe  the best way to think of it is: it’s objects all the way down, just like turtles. We rarely recognize the body as an object or the system of body-objects as an object, because our natural point of view for recognizing things comes from these objects. But only when we see everything as an object, we can start making sense of our peculiar psychology, and we can exercise agency over all the objects, not the ones found only within the narrative itself.

Thanks Justin for the fun interview and space on your great blog.

[Much of my writing focuses on the three gifts of consciousness - Perspective, Ownership and Agency. This quote discusses Agency. The interview focuses mainly on Perspective.]