The state of being fully present in one's physical body and engaging with the world through all five senses. the antithesis of the disembodied, virtual self that exists online. > “It is on firsthand experience—direct contact with things, places, events, and people—that all our knowledge and feeling ultimately rest... Can we recover our courage as individuals sufficiently to seek real, alive, dangerous, threatening experience?” > -- [[The Future is Analog]] In the world after economics, the crucial question is not "What could I be producing?" but "What am I choosing to experience?" -- [[The Last Economy]]