“Heidegger makes explicit the idea
that the nature of our being-in-the-world is not only related to the world we
inhabit, but to the fact that we are aware that we exist in that world. In
short, a fundamental aspect of our being-in-the-world is that we are concerned
about (aware of) ourselves being-in-the-world. Furthermore, another aspect of
Heidegger’s conception of ‘Being’ is that our being-in-the-world is a
being-with-other-beings (being as people, things or entities that exist in the
world around us). Those other beings may or may not have a concern for being
with us, but we most definitely have a concern for being-with them as they have
an effect on how we exist. Our consciousness and our knowledge of the world are
deeply entwined with our phenomenological relationship to it.” (pp34-35)
Annotation
O’Neil in building his case for the semiotics of embodied interaction naturally takes a Heideggerian perspective seeing “our consciousness and our knowledge of the world [as being] deeply entwined with our phenomenological relationship to it” (p35). Our interconnectivity with others shapes how we see and interact with the world we perceive as our reality.
