The point is not just that the boundary between my body and the environment cannot be drawn sharply from a third-person point of view, for what matters here is not where the boundary lies, but rather that there is a deep difference in principle between myself and my world. (Carman)
The body is not just a causal but a transcendental condition of perception, which is itself not just an inner subjective state, but a mode of being in the world. In short, have no understanding of perception in abstraction from the body and the world. (Carman)
o ponto é que consideramos a percepção como subjetiva, e o corpo como objetivo
como juntar os fatos fisiológicos que estão no espaço e os fatos psíquicos que não estão em lugar nenhum?
o corpo é como uma máquina? O que é uma máquina?
The definition of the object is... that it exists partes extra partes, and that consequently it acknowledges between its parts, or between itself and other objects, only external and mechanical relationships, whether in the narrow sense of motion received and transmitted, or in the broad sense of the relation of function to variable. (MP, PP 87, 73, 84)
Máquinas são extensões de objetos...
the reflex arc idea is defective in that it assumes sensory stimulus and motor response as distinct psychical existences, while in reality they are always inside a coordination and have their significance purely from the part played in maintaining or reconstituting the coordination. (John Dewey, citado por Carman)
the "sensible quality", the spatial limits set to the percept, and even the presence or absence of a perception, are not de facto effects of the situation outside the organism, but represent the way in which it meets stimulation and is related to it. An excitation is not perceived when it strikes a sensory organ that is not "attuned" to it. The function of the organism in receiving stimuli is , so to speak, to "conceive" a certain form of excitation. ... exteroceptivity demands that stimuli be given a shape. (MP, PP 94,79,91)
Introspective psychology detected, on the margins of the physical world, a zone of consciousness in which physical concepts no longer apply, but the psychologist still believed consciousness to be no more than a sector of being, and he decided to explore this sector as the physicist explores his. He tried to describe the givens of consciousness, but without putting into question the absolute existence of the world surrounding it. Together with the scientist and common sense, he presupposed the objective world as the logical framework of all his descriptions, and as the setting of his thought. (MP, PP, 72, 59, 68)
there is not a single movement in a living body that is entirely fortuitous with respect to psychic intentions, not a single psychic act that has not found at least its germ or its general outline in physicological tendencies. (MP, PP 104, 88, 101)
We do not understand the absence or death of a friend until the moment we expect a reply from him and realize there will never be one. (MP, PP 96, 80-81, 93)
To see an object is either to have it on the margin of the visual field and be able to fix on it, or to respond to the solicitation by fixing on it. When I do fix on it, I become anchored in it... I continue inside one object the exploration that just hovered over them all, and in one movement I close up the landscape an open up the object. The two operations do not just coincide by accident: it is not the contingencies of my bodily organization, for example the structure of my retina, that obligue me to see my surroundings vaguely if I want to see the object clearly. Even if I knew nothing of rods and cones, I would know that it is necessary to put the surroundings in abeyance to see the object better, and lose in ground what one gains in figure, because to look at the object is to sink into it, and because objects form a system in which one cannot show itself without concealing others. (MP, PP 81-82, 67-68, 78)
I am aware of my body via the world, I am aware of the world trough the medium of my body. (MP, PP 97, 82, 94-95)
my body appears to me as a posture with a view to a certain actual or possible task. ... If I stand in front of my desk and lean on it with both hands, only my hands are accentuated and the whole of my body trails behind them like the tail of a comet.(MP, PP 116, 100, 114-115)
adorei a metáfora, não é em vão que é a Minha Pica...hahaha
the body is not an object of which I have an internal image or internal representation, rather "it is polarized by its tasks, it exists toward them, it gathers itself up to reach its goal, and 'body schema' is in the end a way of expressing that my body is in the world" (MP, PP 117, 101, 115)
