Perception apprehends objects through the ekstatic unity of past and present

Evidence

For him, this was the perfect way of making sense of the connection between consciousness and world. Each clasps the other, as if by criss-crossed, knitted links. Thus, I can see things in the world, but I can also be seen, because I am made of the world’s own stuff. When I touch something with my hand, that thing touches my hand too. If this were not the case, I could neither see nor touch anything at all. I never peer into the world from a safe place outside it, like a cat looking into a fish tank. I encounter things because I am encounterable to others. He wrote: ‘It is as though our vision were formed in the heart of the visible, or as though there were between it and us an intimacy as close as between the sea and the strand.’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 743 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The three ekstases structure temporality, reflection, and the encounter with the Other — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 73; Perceptual differentiation retroactively presents objects as having always been in the prior undifferentiated ground.; Perceived objects exceed present grasp and promise future appropriations (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Perceived objects exceed present grasp and promise future appropriations #expands (0.78)
• Perception requires shared substance between perceiver and perceived. #expands (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 743