Ben:What evidence do you have that this [body thinking] is the "largest
part" ... it does
not feel at all
that way to me, as a subjectively-experiencing human; and I know of no
evidence
in this regard
Like I said, I'm at the start here - and this is going against thousands of
years of literate culture. And there's a lot of work that needs to be done,
but I'm increasingly confident about it.
For a quick, impressionistic response to your question, think of what kind
of spectator events are almost guaranteed to produce the greatest
physical-and-emotional, "whole-body" responses in you. Spectator sports -
when you watch, say, someone miss a goal, and literally scream with your
whole body. Or farce - when some comic actor makes some crazy physical
errors - which you find literally gut-wrenchingly funny. Why do you respond
so intensely? Because you are "body thinking", mirroring their actions with
your whole body - and that's a whole lot of stuff to think with, compared
say to the relatively few brain-and-body areas involved in symbolic thinking
like "22 + 22 = 44". (I notice in education they are now talking about how
infants and young children have to acquire all those symbols by "hands-on
thinking", i.e. "body thinking." You (and I) have just forgotten all that
stuff.).
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