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We describe insights into verbal and bodily interactions and relationships between bodies, movements, settings, knowledge and identity.
Lakoff and Johnson convincingly demonstrated that repeated bodily interactions of a similar kind lead to the formation of image schemas guiding our understanding of verbal expressions.
Based on the work of Lakoff and Johnson, this paper argues that part of our product experience is rooted in bodily interactions between people and their environments.
As such, he can be considered as one of the ancestors of the recent sensorimotor approach, which elevates the importance of bodily interactions with the world in explaining cognitive activities.
This conserved quantity, which Descartes refers to indiscriminately as "motion" or "quantity of motion", is historically significant in that it marks one of the first attempts to locate an invariant or unchanging feature of bodily interactions.
Despite the mechanistic, non-teleological character of Descartes' analysis of motion and bodily interactions, there are many seemingly metaphysical and qualitative traits in Cartesian physics that do not sit comfortably with his brand of reductionism (i.e., that material bodies are simply extension and its modes).
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For a detailed discussion of how affective judgments incorporate patterns of bodily interaction with the environment and are constrained by a range of embodied capabilities see Casasanto 2014.
Recent results in embodied cognition research seem to tip the balance further into the direction of a process-based philosophy of mind, since they suggest that the bodily interaction of an organism plays a constitutive role in cognition.
Such a process may involve cell-to-cell contact or the release of mediators into the blood, other bodily fluids (endocrine interactions), or the microenvironment to form gradients (paracrine interactions) [ 1].
In contrast, embodied cognition theories posit several ways in which concepts (even abstract concepts) maintain connections to bodily movements and interactions with the world.
The re-organization patterns found in converted left-handers show how flexible the brain is in terms of which regions can do what in response to educational training and hand use throughout life, and how bodily features and interaction schemas are conditions to which the brain is attuned to.
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