Primo incontro (in English)

In September, I wrote this short reflection on what a first encounter might mean. I sent it to Telmo Pievani, a philosopher of science whom I'll be speaking with on The Blue Hour in the new year. I explored another kind of beginning in an earlier piece titled Inception. By FARHA GUERRERO I’m interested in the first encounter. The first meeting with another mind, a new consciousness. I would suggest that a first encounter of this kind is not ordinary, trivial, or predictable, even if it begins by chance. It is a moment when, for the first time, two pairs of human eyes may meet. For the first time, one hears a new voice. And sometimes, one may immediately feel a sublime sense of another. This kind of first encounter predates the second. Because the possibility of more encounters always exists. I want to dwell, briefly, if possible, within this first encounter, and try to understand precisely what this encounter might mean philosophically and what may happen following it. I remember…