PHI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Oliver Sacks, Sense, Vestibular System
12 Sep 2016
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The senses: taste, touch, hear, see, smell. And yet it is so automatic, so familiar, we never give it a thought . My body is the background against which i have a world . Permanently lost her sense of embodiment: dispersed tactile sensation gave some reprieve (driving in a convertible) The phantom limb: could feel pain (interoception, could feel the position of the limb (exteroception, yet the limb was no longer present. To be responsive, in a bodily way, to the worlds solicitations or affordances. Embodiment: the normal inseparability of mind and body is one of the most profound facts about our existence! I don"t merely think to move my arm, and my arm moves. I don"t see that my finger is cut, and deduce that there must be pain. I don"t have a body, the way i have a phone: my body is the background against which i have the world.
