![]() This is not just the innocuous and obvious claim that we need a body to reason rather, it is the striking claim that the very structure of reason itself comes from the details of our embodiment. arises from the nature of our brains, bodies, and bodily experiences. However, as George Lakoff and Rafeal Núñez explain:Ĭognitive science calls this entire philosophical worldview into serious question on empirical grounds. From it, western thought developed two basic ideas: reason is disembodied because the mind is disembodied and reason is transcendent and universal. the mind or soul of man is entirely different from the body.” In the proceeding centuries, the notion of the disembodied mind flourished. ![]() In sharp contrast is dualism, a theory of mind famously put forth by Rene Descartes in the 17 th century when he claimed that “there is a great difference between mind and body, inasmuch as body is by nature always divisible, and the mind is entirely indivisible. Embodied cognition, the idea that the mind is not only connected to the body but that the body influences the mind, is one of the more counter-intuitive ideas in cognitive science. ![]()
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