Self Concept = Self Percept?

To extend the ideas of embodied cognition to probably ridictulous lengths, it may be that the structure of the abstract concept of 'the self' is metaphoricallyt mapped from the set of concrete percepts that makeup the phenomenological body. These percepts may be organised into different groups such that, for example there are percepts which are stable, non-conscious, and persistant originating in the biochemistry of the body. There may be a second set flowing from the proprioceptive sense of the body as a located (but not necessarily spatially extended) entity. Then there are the various perceptual apparatus associated with the familiar exteroceptive senses; taste, hearing, touch, smell, and sight. Each of these different groups of percepts may be metaphorically experienced as a different aspect of the psyche, and if arranged graphically would probably look like the concentric circles of mandalas.

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Education

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• sense
• sensory
• perception
• proprioception
• consciousness
• phenomenology
• Jung
• mandala
• self
• concept
• metaphor
• Lakoff
• Johnson