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    The concept of body representation (and body misrepresent... — Carmelics
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    The concept of body representation (and body misrepresentation) can explain how bodily experience can diverge from the physical reality of the body.

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    • 1.Amputated patients can still feel the presence of an absent limb because the physically missing limb is still represented in their body representation.
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    • 2.Patients with xenomelia wish to have perfectly healthy limbs amputated because those limbs are not incorporated into their body representation.
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    • 1.Phenomenal bodily experience is constituted by lived, first-person givenness, not by third-person representational states posited by neuroscience.
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    • 2.Merleau-Ponty's body schema is not a representation of the body but a pre-reflective motor intentionality that cannot misrepresent in the propositional sense required.
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    • 3.Invoking 'body representation' smuggles in a Cartesian inner model, replicating exactly the intellectualist framework phenomenology was developed to overcome.
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    • 1.Phantom limb phenomena and xenomelia are equally consistent with enactivist accounts in which bodily experience is grounded in sensorimotor loops, not stored representations.
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    • 2.If divergence from physical reality is explained by failed or absent sensorimotor coupling rather than misrepresentation, the representational posit is explanatorily redundant.
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    • 3.A theoretical entity should not be postulated when the explanatory work it performs is already accomplished by an independently motivated rival framework.
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    The first reason is to account for disturbances in bodily awareness. Most of the literature on body representation can be found in patient studies (Head & Holmes 1911; Lhermitte 1942; Cole & Paillard 1995, Schwoebel & Coslett 2005; Sirigu et al. 1991; Gadsby 2017). With the help of the notion of body representation, and thus of body misrepresentation, one can easily explain how the way the body is experienced can be at odds with the physical reality of the body. On the one hand, ampu
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