Moving water provides a perfect metaphor for Renoir's vision of life as an ever-shifting stream of experience, and for his fluid visual style, in which camera movement and composition are used to extend a sense of a wider world beyond the frame.
(5) Genetic phenomenology studies the genesis of meanings of things within one's own stream of experience.
It depends on keeping track of correlations in the stream of experience and slowly modulating expectations on the basis of these correlations.
But if the relevant concepts are not perceptually available, how could they be learned by Empiricist-style mechanisms that only track regularities in the stream of experience?
To be aware of oneself is not to capture a pure self that exists separately from the stream of experience, rather it is to be conscious of one's experience in its implicit first-person mode of givenness.
Metaphorically speaking, we are the only ones who can gaze directly at our attitudes or our stream of experience, while others must rely on us or on outward signs.
However much in that vivid simultaneity one might be unable to doubt the other's existence, one could still be mistaken about specific thoughts of the others, since by belonging to the other's stream of consciousness these thoughts share the dubitability characterizing outer perceptions, likewise transcendent to one's stream of experience.
However, Schutz also supplemented Weber, pointing out how interpretation was involved even in selecting an experience out of one's stream of experience and highlighting how the meaning of an action to an actor depended upon the project guiding the extended temporal process of the sub-acts leading to its realization.
In sum, self-disorders are to a large extent structural aspects of subjective life that are, based on what the patients describe, never far away (as a potentiality) from their ongoing stream of experience.
It is quite possible that our usual physiology might preclude understanding because our sense organs do not allow us to actually incorporate life as a continuous stream of experiences.
