ABSTRACT
In the meantime, it is possible, by way of logical and phenomenological analysis, to study the act of observing together, which is to say the concrete sharing of the same “things” of experience that are to be found between more than one observer. The discussion of the several points calls for us to distinguish among three ways of understanding the word “experience”: as phenomenal experience, as epistemic experience and as psychological experience. The power of the model derives much more from the fact that it is coherent and applies to three sharply distinguished zones of experience than from the agreement among the protocols in the narrow sense. The model is at its most powerful when it can be applied virtually unmodified to other sensory modalities. Obviously, when they move from one aspect to another or from one modality of experience to another, the models have to be retouched.
