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    The body schema should be conceived as a sensorimotor fun... — Carmelics
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    The body schema should be conceived as a sensorimotor function devoid of intentional content, not as a mental representation of the body.

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    • 1.Mental representations are too computationally costly.
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    • 2.Mental representations are unnecessary because sensorimotor loops can replace them.
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    • 3.The body can serve as its own best model, eliminating the need for internal representation.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.Intentionality need not be propositional or explicitly representational, so non-conceptual motor intentionality refutes the dichotomy between schema and intentional content.
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    • 3.Eliminating intentional content from the body schema cannot explain phantom limb phenomena, where absent body parts still orient action toward environmental affordances.
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    • 1.Bermúdez's account in The Bodily Self demonstrates that proprioceptive and somatic experiences carry genuine nonconceptual content about spatial self-location.
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    • 2.A function entirely devoid of intentional content lacks the normative dimension needed to distinguish correct from incorrect sensorimotor calibration, yet the body schema demonstrably admits of error.
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    When one discusses the relationship between bodily awareness and action, one frequently appeals to the notion of body schema. It is used, however, in many different ways. One of the main controversies is whether it should be conceived as a specific type of mental representation of the body. For Merleau-Ponty (1945), and more recently for Gallagher (2008), the body schema should be conceived as a sensorimotor function, devoid of intentional content. Their definition is in line with a general tren
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