‘A philosophy that states only what a person experiences matters, not the science of sensory input nor the philosophies of the past. Science proves that senses "lie" to the mind, but the lie is still "reality" to the individual. What matters is what we think weexperience, not what science might "prove" we experience. Existentialism grew from phenomenology; usually the two are studied together. That is why science is excluded from phenomenology -- it cannot determine what someone experiences; science is limited to what inputs are recognized, not how they are interpreted.
You and I watch a movie. Science can explain the movie: light through film, reflecting on a screen, then filtered by cones and rods in our eyes. Science cannot explain what the movie means or what emotions it triggers in us. So, we ignore the science, which adds nothing to understanding the movie as an event. We also ignore past philosophies, which might not apply to the movie's viewers.
Left only with the film and two people, we have to ask each person what the movie meant to them as individuals. We are then forced to accept that what they say it meant might not be honest. That's existentialism and phenomenology in a nutshell -- what you and I experience is never the same, even if science says the event is one thing and one thing only’.
- Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences
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