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EXISTENTIALISM & THE AVATAR;
a view on tech-enabled coaching as a disruptive medium of objective reality
PHIL TOVEY MCMI Founder, Fire & Flux coaching
www.fireandfluxcoaching.com
Coaching Virtual Reality Existentialism
Can expose 'ultimate concerns' with our existence
Of which, are then drawn into consciousness through a medium that disrupts our sense of an objective reality
How a methodological preoccupation
Phenomenology And with application of critical dialogue changes ones relationship with reality
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What constitutes, enables and manifests our idea of coaching?
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"It is not in some hiding-place that we will discover ourselves; it is on the road, in the town, in the midst of the crowd, a thing among things, a man among men."
(Sartre, 1939) Edmund Husserl 1858 - 1938
Epoché; temporarily setting aside the assumptions and biases we hold subconsciously as we exist in the world.
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The Intentional Field bracketing 'suspends judgement' of what might be considered 'natural, everyday, normal or unconscious'.
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Predicate
Subject Object
The predicate is the statement, assertion or affirmation of something; descriptive, verb-like, action
The object is the person or a thing upon whom or upon which the action of the verb is carried out.
The subject is the person or a thing who or which carries out the action of the verb.
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Coachee (s) - experience (p) - something (o) Dasein (s) - intentionality (p) - aboutness (o) Avatar (s) - absurdity (p) - tensions (o)
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NEWTONIAN PHYSICS (1687, PRINCIPIA) A MECHANICAL,
DETERMINISTIC WORLDVIEW
CHRISTIAN RELIGIOSITY SKEPTICISM OF BIBLICAL TRUTH (KANT, ET
AL)
THE LAWS OF NATURE AND THE HANDS OF GODS
KIERKEGAARDIAN SUBJECTIVITY A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR MEANING IN INDIVIDUAL EXISTENCE
FIG 2.1 SUBJECTIVISM OF MECHANICAL AND RELIGIOUS WORLDVIEWS
OBJECTIVISM OF HUMAN EXISTENCE
DARWINIAN ZEITGEIST
HUSSERLIAN INTENTIONALITY (1910, 'PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE CRISIS OF PHILOSOPHY')
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KIERKEGAARDIAN SUBJECTIVITY A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR MEANING IN INDIVIDUAL EXISTENCE
THE LIVED-EXPERIENCE
HUSSERLIAN INTENTIONALITY 1910, PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE CRISIS OF PHILOSOPHY
EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (SPINELLI, 2010) RELATEDNESS | UNCERTAINTY | ANXIETY
Freedom
Responsibility
Meaninglessness
Finiteness
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EXISTENTIAL PRINCIPLES (SPINELLI, 2010)
Freedom
Responsibility
Meaninglessness Finiteness
Virtual | noun; Almost or nearly described, but not completely or according to any strict definition
VR
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Freedom
Responsibility
Meaninglessness
Finiteness
Virtual | noun; Almost or nearly described, but not completely or according to any strict definition Paradox | noun; A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement
Virtual Reality immerses one into an intentional field in which, a metaphorical and embodied understanding of our constructed environment forcibly presents reality as a subjective choice.
REALITYThe Evolutionary Argument that if we see reality more precisely, we enhance our fitness, is false. It turns out seeing reality more clearly, doesn't favour survive, seeing fitness does" (Adapted from Hoffman, 2009)
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DISCUSSION None of us see reality as it is?
Virtual Reality has the same perceptual qualities as our physical reality
We all have multiple identities that exist at the same time
Objects bring us into being
A deletion, removal or death in virtual reality is the same as in our physical world
What is the inherent value of a physical world over a virtual world?
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WE DIE SO WE CAN LIVEWhen,...a military leader takes upon himself the responsibility for an attack and sends a number of men to their death, he chooses to do it... In making the decision, he cannot but feel a certain anguish...It does not prevent their acting, on the contrary it is the very condition of their action, for the action presupposes that there is a plurality of possibilities, and in choosing one of these, they realize that it has value only because it is chosen. Now it is anguish of that kind which existentialism describes, and moreover, as we shall see, makes explicit through direct responsibility towards other men who are concerned. Far from being a screen which could separate us from action, it is a condition of action itself. (Sarte, 1948)
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"The only question worth asking is, 'is this life worth living or not'."
(Albert Camus)
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EXISTENTIALISM & THE AVATAR;
a view on tech-enabled coaching as a disruptive medium of objective reality
PHIL TOVEY MCMI Founder, Fire & Flux coaching
www.fireandfluxcoaching.com
