Touch 2

You know you have a body. You know the world is outside it. You know a wall is solid. But how do you know? Touch 2 takes the seemingly ordinary experience of touch and turns it into a radical investigation of perception, selfhood and reality. Beginning with sensation rather than inherited assumptions, Ayesha Jasmin and Azalea Jasmin examine how the mind constructs boundaries, distance, objects, ownership, causation and even the distinction between observer and observed. Drawing on philosophy, Buddhism, phenomenology, physics and process thought, the book asks whether the solid world we take fo