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'''Personal experience''' of a [[human being]] is the actual moment-to-moment [[experience]] and [[sensory awareness]] of our being [[life|alive]] and [[cognition|noticing what is around us]].  There have been many different beliefs about it, and about how easy it is to exchange what is experienced:

(contracted; show full) experience is in [[literature]], notably the [[diary]] and [[autobiography]] forms, where an [[author]] relates their personal experience in natural language to another.  In the Western world, this form is often credited to [[Augustine of Hippo|Augustine]]'s ''[[Confessions of Saint Augustine|Confessions]]'' as the earliest ([[4th century]]) example.

[[Poetry]], [[dance]], [[song]] and other more abstract forms are thought to relate personal experience better than [[prose]] or [[
Play (theatre)|play]] by some.  It is not clear why this is, other than, the more abstract forms have no one explicit meaning, and experience is more negotiable between [[artist]] and [[audience]].  These works are often prized in Western literature above works of non-fiction that pretend to be "objective" or about something other than the author.  [[Postmodernism]] is a movement that denies that anything is objective.

The elements of universal personal experience is today explored rigorously in the [[cognitive science of mathematics]] which proposes that our notations and symbols, even the most formal, are rooted ultimately in the [[senses]] and [[habituation|habit]]s of exploring our surroundings.  [[Knowledge]] then strictly relies on experience, and is translated into symbols in an obvious way.  [[Truth]] is approached by transcription.  [[Baudrillard]] had a similar theory but did not relate it directly to [[mathematics]].

Subjective personal experience is also more widely spread on the [[Internet]] due to [[webcam]] and other means.  [[Steve Mann]] is a noted explorer of ways to share personal experience using the [[Internet]] - he makes his audiovisual experience shareable by wearing cameras and microphones literally all the time.

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