Coming into contact with experience : a reply to Jesse Butler
Résumé
We fully agree with the ideas developed by Jesse Butler in his response to our article "The Validity of First-Person Descriptions as Authenticity and Coherence": since we are our lived experience, experience cannot be considered as a knowable object. The metaphor of contact, because of the dichotomy it introduces between a touching subject and a touched object, is therefore not well suited to describe this identity. However, we did not use it to characterise an epistemic property of our knowledge or consciousness of experience, but to draw the reader's attention on the process of becoming aware of one's experience.