1) Experience as a whole: 99% of your attention can be on your technical task (in his philosophical language this will amount to foreground/particular), but keep 1% on the background/peripheral (in your example it would be the seated body). Don't worry if you lose a tactile sense of your position, ...

Without the scientist there is no science; but science cannot, without inconsistency, admit the existence of the scientist; for the scientist is a man, and a man is not to be explained if feeling is ignored; and feeling is outside the domain of science. Science, however, in its claim to universal v...