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    The brain does not need to represent the body in the form... — Carmelics
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    The brain does not need to represent the body in the form of a mental representation.

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    • 1.Biological systems only need to know what is required to accomplish their tasks.
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    • 2.Paying attention to the body may be sufficient for action, without requiring a stored representation of it.
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    • 1.Phantom limb phenomena demonstrate that the brain maintains a body schema independent of current sensory input from the body.
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    • 2.A body schema that persists after limb loss cannot be explained by attention to present bodily states alone—it requires stored representation.
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    • 3.Therefore, Melzack's neuromatrix research shows the brain does represent the body even absent the body's causal contribution.
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    • 1.Predictive coding frameworks (Friston, Clark) hold that the brain generates top-down generative models of the body to minimize prediction error.
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    • 2.A generative model of the body is precisely a mental representation of the body in a computationally substantive sense.
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    • 3.The sufficiency of 'attention to the body' for action already presupposes a representational prior against which incoming signals are compared.
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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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