Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics by Shusterman Richard

Author:Shusterman, Richard [Shusterman, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

I let my index finger make an easy pendulum movement of small amplitude. I either hardly feel it, or don’t feel it at all. Perhaps a little in the tip of the finger, as a slight tension. (Not at all in the joint.) And this sensation advises me of the movement? – for I can describe the movement exactly.

“But after all, you must feel it, otherwise you wouldn’t know (without looking) how your finger was moving.” But “knowing” it only means: being able to describe it. – I may be able to tell the direction from which a sound comes only because it affects one ear more strongly than the other, but I don’t feel this in my ears; yet it has its effect: I know the direction from which the sound comes; for instance, I look in that direction.

It is the same with the idea that it must be some feature of our pain that advises us of the whereabouts of the pain in the body, and some feature of our memory image that tells us the time to which it belongs.

(PI, p. 185)

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