Consciousness and Movement
Extra-sensory deprivation experiments have shown that
the denial of sensory experience, itself dependent on movement, causes a total
breakdown of coherent thought within hours. Hence, consciousness, memory and
perception would not be possible if the brain were not using movements as the
basis of its integration of sensory experience. To do this, the brain must establish an unconscious,
dynamic ‘body image’- a unique frame of reference which makes our feelings of
subjectivity and continuity possible.
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