Minding the Body. From Corporeal Mind to Minded Corporeality

Phainomena

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Sebastjan Vörös¹ 

[1] University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy;

关键词: merleau-ponty;    mindedness;    rationality;    transformativism;    vitality;    embodiment;   

DOI  :  10.32022/PHI30.2021.118-119.1

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In recent decades, the embodied approaches to cognition have become increasinglyinfluential in philosophy of mind and cognitive science. However, despite their invaluablecontribution to the field, there is some concern that they may have succumbed towhat I call the “fetishization of the irrational.” This can be gleaned from a somewhatdisconcerting tendency of such approaches to construe mind and reason as secondaryphenomena that occlude or even distort the primary level of lived experience. There exists a danger that, if left unqualified, a valid attempt to dispel one group of dualisms (mindvs. body) may bring forth another and perhaps even more pernicious group (rationalityvs. experientiality). In the paper, I draw on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a majorsource of inspiration for the embodiment movement, to show that a more nuancedunderstanding of the relation between body and mind is called for. More specifically, Iargue that, in human beings, the idea that the mind is seamlessly interwoven with thebody should be construed as a twofold relation: not only in the sense that human mindis mind embodied, but also in the sense that human body is body minded, a virtual centerof behavioral patterns of qualitatively novel kind (i.e., symbolic behavior). Mind, in thisview, is a unique dynamic structure that encompasses our whole mode of being.

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