We present preliminary results indicating how cardiophenomenology can be generatively applied, in this instance in the case of the surprise reaction of individuals with and without depression, who take part in an emotional task. In the present article, we aim to show how to do cardiophenomenology with the example of 4 participants, two with depression and two healthy controls, and we implement it by applying the core-hypothesis of Varela’s co-generative methodology. The latter in turn needs to be enlarged in order to include a cardiac-affective dimension.
In a first 2019 article on “Cardiophenomenology: a refinement of neurophenomenology” (Depraz N, Desmidt T 2019), we presented and argued for the theoretical hypothesis of cardiophenomenology, which centralizes the heart system as a core, intrinsic part of the cognitive system. In order to do so, we situate this new paradigm at the cardio-vascular level of the emotional dynamics of the lived experience and thus refine the combining of the first- and third-person analysis. Cardiophenomenology aims at extending, and partly reforming, the neuro-phenomenological approach of Francisco Varela, as a new paradigm on the joint-basis of Edmund Husserl’s a priori conceptual dynamics of the living present (Husserl E 1991) and an experiment of anticipatory time-dynamics of visual motor perception (Varela FJ 1996).
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