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    It is not the case that Merleau-Ponty's own account of the body schema in Phenomenology of Perception requires intentional arc, a directedness toward possibilities of action in the world.

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    • 1.Merleau-Ponty's body schema also describes pre-reflective bodily awareness that occurs independently of explicit action-orientation or intentional directedness.
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    • 2.The intentional arc appears in Phenomenology of Perception primarily in discussions of motivation and habit, not as a necessary structural feature of all body schema functioning.
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    • 1.Merleau-Ponty explicitly describes the body schema as oriented toward worldly possibilities, not merely passive receptors of sensation.
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    • 2.The intentional arc unifies perception, motivation, and motor behavior into a coherent system that Merleau-Ponty argues is central to embodied consciousness.
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    • 3.Without directedness toward action possibilities, the body schema would collapse into either mechanism or disembodied intellectualism, positions Merleau-Ponty explicitly rejects.
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