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    It is not the case that There must be a connection between our capacity to act directly with our body and our capacity to feel our body from the inside.

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    • 1.Merleau-Ponty's motor intentionality is grounded in the body schema, which operates pre-reflectively and independent of proprioceptive feeling.
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    • 2.Phantom limb phenomena show subjects can act toward and through a body part they cannot genuinely feel from the inside in any veridical sense.
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    • 3.Therefore, direct bodily agency can be sustained by motor representations that are functionally decoupled from genuine interoceptive or felt bodily awareness.
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    • 1.Patients with complete deafferentation (e.g., Ian Waterman) lose somatic sensation yet retain voluntary motor agency over their bodies.
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    • 2.If action without felt bodily awareness is possible, agency and interoception are doubly dissociable, not necessarily connected.
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    • 1.Human beings are not like pilots in a ship — we are able to feel our body from the inside.
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    • 2.The body is not always immediately present in all its details to the subject, even when acting, yet the subject retains a distinctive felt relation to the body distinct from external perception.
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