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Your Brain and Your Body Are One and the Same

By Jack Meserve — 2015

We see a dog walking toward us, think about whether it’s the neighbor’s or if it looks friendly, and tell our bodies whether to pet it or run. This all seems straightforward and maps pretty cleanly onto our conscious experience. But in Intelligence in the Flesh, the cognitive scientist Guy Claxton tells us that this is utterly wrong.

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