Brain in a Vat
Overthink
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What Is Enembodied Perception?
In touch, you have to be right up against what are touching such that you can also say that it is touching you. Theorists mean when they say that all experience is touchy. And so this notion that we feel ourselves as being in our heads because that's an objective feature of our lived experience isn't quite right. In fact, it might be just modulated by our cultural values and our assumptions about the way in which the body produces that experience. For people like evan thompson or alvanoe, experience requires three things: a brain, more specifically, a nervous system,. A world in which it is integrated with other parts of the body and finally,
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