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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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