PHI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Phantom Limb, Body Image, Neuropathology
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Product of high level conceptual reflection (544): representational, propositional/theoretical, personal (ownership, distinct from environment. Outside central consciousness (544): non-representational, practical/habitual, holistic, pre-personal (anonymous, integrated with the environment. Any experimental situation that places the subject in a reflective attitude in order to ascertain something about pre-reflective experience is questionable. Reflection produces phenomena which are not necessarily contained within pre-reflective experience. And while many authors proceed to draw conclusions about the body image on the basis of a conscious representation of the body induced within the experimental situation (547). Perceptual space appears to be carved up into at least three main sectors, as it is presented in experience, as it is enacted by the body, and as it is represented in the brain: Personal space (the space of surface of the body) Peripersonal space (the space >0 to 24-36 inches from the body) Extrapersonal space (the space far from the body)