Blog 4 Ihde Readings

This book takes a lot more effort to read. I find it very hard to understand. All the philosophers bounce from topic to topic, instead of just stating it directly. Heidegger seems to say that we are consumed to the tools that we use, resulting in we use them without thinking about them. In order to bring the tool back into context, it has to obtain a flaw or something that makes us think about it. Husserl's seems to claim that the lifeworld is the one existed and relates everything to the scientific world. At the same time, this scientific world replaces the lifeworld in the process. Merlu-Ponty states that we have body, and through the actions of this body we experience the world. He takes technology as it becomes a part of us while we use it, and becomes an extension of ourselves. All of this is still a little blurry to me, and i hope it becomes more clear after talking about it in class.