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The interoceptive turn
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1230" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/the-interoceptive-turn-is-maturing-as-a-rich-science-of-selfhood" target="_blank"><strong>The interoceptive turn - aeon</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The science of how we sense ourselves from within, including our bodily states, is creating a radical picture of selfhood </strong></p><p></p><p>Over the past few years, scientists working in neuroscience and psychology have been listening in on these brain-body interactions – in health and illness – and analysing how they constitute the always embodied self. They have been studying the sense of the body from within, which is called <em>interoception</em>. It is a term you will be hearing increasingly. This research is dismantling the pillars of a belief system that has long endured within those fields – as well as in the popular imagination – that the brain is an information-processing machine that can be understood apart from the rest of the body, as if our conscious, reasoning self were the output of a disembodied brain, and as if we were not fully biological creatures. This shift within the mind sciences is game-changing, and merits attention. Yet perhaps because we are in its midst, even its actors might not be fully aware of its historical and philosophical significance – and of its potential cultural and clinical implications. The time has come to take stock of the <a href="https://aeon.co/essays/feminists-never-bought-the-idea-of-a-mind-set-free-from-its-body" target="_blank">revolution</a> under way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1230, member: 1"] [URL='https://aeon.co/essays/the-interoceptive-turn-is-maturing-as-a-rich-science-of-selfhood'][B]The interoceptive turn - aeon[/B][/URL] [B]The science of how we sense ourselves from within, including our bodily states, is creating a radical picture of selfhood [/B] Over the past few years, scientists working in neuroscience and psychology have been listening in on these brain-body interactions – in health and illness – and analysing how they constitute the always embodied self. They have been studying the sense of the body from within, which is called [I]interoception[/I]. It is a term you will be hearing increasingly. This research is dismantling the pillars of a belief system that has long endured within those fields – as well as in the popular imagination – that the brain is an information-processing machine that can be understood apart from the rest of the body, as if our conscious, reasoning self were the output of a disembodied brain, and as if we were not fully biological creatures. This shift within the mind sciences is game-changing, and merits attention. Yet perhaps because we are in its midst, even its actors might not be fully aware of its historical and philosophical significance – and of its potential cultural and clinical implications. The time has come to take stock of the [URL='https://aeon.co/essays/feminists-never-bought-the-idea-of-a-mind-set-free-from-its-body']revolution[/URL] under way. [/QUOTE]
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