Title: thepopupschool / Temporality

Question: What interaction metaphors have been presented previously in the series
Answer: Sense-making up-hierarchy, Habitat/Habitas, Action Protocols, and Action Thresholds.

Question: What two terms are important for understanding temporality of experience
Answer: Duration and epoch.

Question: How should we imagine temporality
Answer: As waves of experience arising from more primordial levels, reaching and passing various thresholds.

Question: What happens above a certain threshold regarding bodily disposition or “mood”
Answer: The inchoate sensations become subconscious affect-laden drives.

Question: What happens above a certain threshold regarding subconscious affect-laden drives
Answer: They become elaborated by story and become emotions.

Question: What happens above a certain threshold regarding the emotions
Answer: They trigger speech acts and other behaviors.

Question: What happens above a certain threshold regarding the limbic system
Answer: It can become overwhelmed, and a cascade of disregulated, disruptive events ensue.

Question: What does Jason W Brown use to describe a process theory of experience
Answer: The term microgenesis.

Question: According to Brown, what do the microgenetic processes of human experience reflect
Answer: A deeper universal generative principle of the creative cosmos.

Question: In the context of microgenesis, what does the overlap of waves account for
Answer: The continuity of process in the heart of the experience of discrete moments.

Question: In the illustration provided, what does the entire two-beat pattern constitute
Answer: An epoch.

Question: In the illustration provided, what does each instance of conscious existence constitute
Answer: A duration.

Question: According to Brown, what kind of relation is the epoch-duration
Answer: A whole-part relation.

Question: What happens to meditative awareness
Answer: Stretches the duration across more of the epoch.

Question: What happens in heightened states of perceptual acuity like kensho or satori
Answer: There is a phase shift in the opposite direction, such that the conscious perception is simultaneously present with the upswell of its becoming in which the startling beauty of reality arises, and time itself is lost, along with the sense of self which relies on it.

Question: What do meditative absorptions such as the jhanas do
Answer: Postpone the duration to varying degrees until, in the deepest states, only unconscious processing remains without any shift in phase.