THE IDEA OF EMBODIED MIND AS SUBSTANTIATION OF CORPORAL RATIONALITY

  • Ольга Олексіївна Дольська The National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" http://orcid/org/0000-0002-9577-8282
Keywords: body, mind, embodied mind, embodied rationality, metaphor

Abstract

The question of Post-Enlightenment rationality attracts attention of scientists in various fields of knowledge. Author believes that its justification should be strengthened by an appeal to corporal rationality. With understanding it as normative interactivity, the design of which is clearly dictated by the morphology of body and has an applied character, author believes that for its more thorough understanding, it is necessary to turn to the latest works of famous specialists in the field of semantic and cognitive linguistics, to J. Lakoff and M. Johnson.

According to the idea of the corporeal mind, man is a creature that is subject to central nervous system. That is, person can only think about what mind / body is transmitting (the embodied mind). Based on reflections about emergence of metaphors, they conclude that human body determines a set of fundamental spatial relationships used not only in the process of self-orientation but also in the process of perception of spatial relationships between objects. The description of body and our views, understanding, complexity of thoughts are formed due to the system of mental images and motility. Body and sensorimotor system is a key component of the conceptual scheme. Thinking process itself takes place on the level of "cognitive unconscious" (this level of thinking process includes automatic cognitive operations, hidden knowledge, hidden beliefs etc.). Such "cognitive unconscious" produces conscious thinking without participation of consciousness. They assume that the source of categories are neural structures and bodily experience, and the terms of embodiment are used to form abstract concepts. Such "embodied abstract concepts" are the basis of thinking, which means that human thinking is also embodied. Thus the idea of embodied mind confirms the rejection of Cartesian dichotomy mind-body as anti-scientific, and any understanding of rationality must take into account corporal rationality.

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Author Biography

Ольга Олексіївна Дольська, The National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"

Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor

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2021-03-22
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Дольська, О. О. (2021). THE IDEA OF EMBODIED MIND AS SUBSTANTIATION OF CORPORAL RATIONALITY. The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series "Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science", (62), 7-14. https://doi.org/10.26565/2306-6687-2020-62-01