Feminists never bought the idea of a mind set free from its body | Aeon Essays
We in the West are used to thinking of the mind and the body as separate. But a burgeoning field called “embodied cognition” is demonstrating that thinking is actually a full-body experience.
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Descartes formulated what became the foundation of the modern world: Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. But what happened to the body in that sentence? What happened to the heart, the breath, the pulse?
Anna Branten • The Collapse of Communication
H.D. would devote her life to undoing the damage Descartes has done to our cultural mythos, insisting instead on the synthesis of body and mind, of spirituality and sexuality, of love and reason
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
A fundamental idea that most current AI misses is that human intelligence is inherently embodied. It is a feature of our collective severing of body and mind, that we think a disembodied intelligence such as ChatGPT could ever recreate human intelligence. This misses the deep importance of feeling, intuition, and other typical “feminine”
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Yes, this was definitely true when I self objectified under the auspices of feminism. What I was actually: a tool of consumer culture and social media algorithms. Feminism is inextricable from the incentives of social media, which is why I’ve rejected it. It was actually just about self objectification and
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