Diet and Bodily Constitution

Actuality and possibility: On the complementarity of two registers in the bodily constitution of experience

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of the concept of possibility, and not merely that of actuality, for an inquiry into the bodily constitution of experience. The paper will study how the possibilities of action that may (or may not) be available to the subject help to shape the meaning attributed to perceived objects and to the situation occupied by the subject within h...

Grounding Aesthetic Preference in the Bodily Conditions of Meaning Constitution Towards an Enactive Approach

a bstr act Mark Johnson’s work The Meaning of the Body presents John Dewey’s pragmatism and pragmatist aesthetics as the forerunners of the anti­ Cartesian embodied enactive approach to human experience and meaning. He rejects the Kantian noncognitive character of aesthetics and emphasizes that aesthetics is the study of the human capacity to experience the bodily conditions of meaning constitu...

The Effect of Diet on Human Bodily Odors

One of the most underestimated and poorly understood aspects of diet is its influence on human body odor. Humans have a distinct odor signature which arises from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The link between genes and body odor is well appreciated, and an understanding of the influences of environmental factors such as emotional state, reproductive phase, and health statu...

Bodily ownership and self-location: components of bodily self-consciousness.

Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies ...

The Intimate Connexion: Bodily Awareness and Bodily Agency