We exist in a bodily space that only we can pioneer conversations from.
Non-conceptual knowledge is ultimately interwoven with bodily space, movement, and perception.
The bodily space is a space of actions endowed with existential meanings, of ways of existing towards objects.
It seems indeed that the way we experience bodily space does not follow some basic spatial rules.
Bodily space thus orients external space by offering spatial axes such as up and down, left and right, front and back.
In other words, there cannot be any sensation that does not fall within the limits of the bodily space as it is experienced.
How can one envisage accounting for bodily space in terms of Cartesian reference frame when one cannot provide a center of this frame, nor suggest axes on which one could compute distances and directions (Bermudez, 1998, 2005)?
Unlike "unconscious" behavior, which is by definition, inaccessible to conscious thought, our familiar behaviors that take shape across perceptual and bodily space are pre-reflective; they make reflective experience possible, for without the pre-reflective modality, the act of reflection would have nothing to turn itself toward.
And until that is given to us to our satisfaction, we must choose what products we apply, ingest, and insert, and what standards we set for the integrity of what can be introduced into our personal ecosystems, particularly those that we use in our most sacred and intimate bodily space each month.
According to the authors, these findings suggest that the visual-tactile mechanism critical for mapping one's own bodily space might also be used for mapping the bodily space of others, thus providing an interpersonal bodily space representation [23].
