Ambiguity describes how the body is minded and the mind is embodied

 Ambiguity describes how the body is minded and the mind is embodied, calling into question the dualism between the two. And yet, the distinction between subject and object persists in experience, where subjectivity and objecthood—and agency and passivity—are lived as being in tension. This indicates how, though mind–body dualism is untenable as a metaphysical claim, the subject/object distinction remains as what Nancy Bauer calls a “phenomenological dilemma,” which is lived out in the perspectival character of embodied, subjective experience.4 An individual is bound to a first-person perspective, unable cognitively to grasp themselves as both subject and object. And yet we feel that we are both subject and object