Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Proprioception, Kinaesthesia, Detachment

In theories of Consciousness such as Leibniz' and Phenomenalism, there are seeming proprioceptive elements, i. e. apparently internal data that are construed as independent of any external entity.  However, the contemporary concept of Proprioception exhibits what distinguishes it from such other theories that also accommodate a mode of inner sensibility--its kinaesthesia.  That is, the immediate objects of Proprioception are motor processes, from which corporeality is difficult to abstract.  So, the lack of recognition in even those theories may be due less to analytical omission, than to the their commitment to the paradigm of a detached subject that is entrenched in modern Philosophy, i. e. a paradigm that is not easily reconcilable with the concept of either a motile subject, or an embodied one.

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