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In this tribute to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, I examine whether phenomenology, as a cognitive enterprise of sentience, extends beyond the death of the physical body. The symphonic form of this paper is inspired by Tymieniecka’s Metaphysical Rhapsodies of Faith. The paper’s First Movement, Allegro, sets the stage by drawing distinctions between the concept of sentience in the Phenomenology of Life and that of the intentionality of consciousness as viewed in cognitive phenomenology with its strong Husserlian legacy. The Second Movement, Moderato, follows the thread of sentience in the labyrinth of life through the ontopoietic patterns of complexity and emergence in both animate and inanimate nature. The Third Movement, Minuet, shows the hylomorphic unity of sentience and patterns of complexity in the nonlinear dynamics of the brain, and discusses qualia of thought, and the informational patterns of consciousness. Sentience is claimed to be a cosmic property which is appropriated by the phenomenologically material subjectivity. Since the intuition of life is the self-revelation of sentience, intuition of life continues in dying and has no reason not to continue beyond. The Fourth Movement, Finale Glorioso, describes patterns of sentience in the soul’s final ascent, and honors the intuitional gifts that proceed from the passage of a great soul.
This is a keynote address in memoriam of Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, October 1, 2014, 64th International Phenomenology Congress of the World Phenomenology Institute, held at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
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Louchakova-Schwartz, O. (2018). The Symphony of Sentience, in Cosmos and Life: In Memoriam Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka. In: Smith, W., Smith, J., Verducci, D. (eds) Eco-Phenomenology: Life, Human Life, Post-Human Life in the Harmony of the Cosmos. Analecta Husserliana, vol CXXI. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77516-6_1
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