Elspeth
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physicality + wonder
Elspeth
“By paying a certain kind of attention, you can humanise or dehumanise, cherish or strip of all value. By a kind of alienating, fragmenting and focal attention, you can reduce humanity – or art, sex, humour, or religion – to nothing. You can so alienate yourself from a poem that you stop seeing the poem at all, and instead come to see in its place ... See more
The Matter With Things Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
There is an honesty about touch that cannot be matched by any other sense,
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
An Embodied Predictive Processing Theory of Pain Experience - Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Michael D. Kirchhofflink.springer.comR E S O U R C E S - Body Maps
bodymaps-book.comThe scientists and physiotherapists Dave Butler and Lorimer Moseley put it elegantly:
“We will experience pain when our credible evidence of danger related to our body is greater than our credible evidence of safety related to our body. Equally we won’t have pain when our credible evidence of safety is greater than our credible evidence of danger.”
... See moreTom Jesson • Wired into Pain
Changes in the mechanical, thermal and chemical status ofthe tissues of the body – stimuli that can cause pain – are important first of all for the homeostatic maintenance of the body.
Bud Craig • A new view of pain as a homeostatic emotion
suggests that the self and its relation to the world is not merely a mental phenomenon. It has a sensual, embodied, and material dimension, and changes, even subtle ones, to the texture our experience can have profound consequences.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
human feeling of pain is both a distinct sensation and a motivation – that is, a specific emotion that reflects homeostatic behavioral drive, similar to temperature, itch, hunger and thirst.
