Minding the body
Minding the body
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DOI：
10.1162/daed.2006.135.3.15
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Damasio, Hanna
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作者：
Damasio, Antonio;Damasio, Hanna
我们把生命中的大部分时间都花在关注我们外部世界的景象和声音上，忘记了我们（精神上的）存在于我们的身体中，我们的身体存在于我们的思想中。这种忽视有好有坏：好的时候，它让我们让自己的身体痛苦不被艾德坏的时候，它屏蔽了我们的生物学根源。尽管如此，当受伤或疾病破坏了身体的完整性并导致疼痛时，身体确实会出现在脑海中。身体也会在快乐的时刻出现在我们的脑海中，但要求不那么高，当身体的轻盈和功能的轻松不可避免地让我们意识到身体时。然而，我们在这篇文章中想要解决的不是我们身体的状态可以传递给我们的思想这一明显的事实，而是使这一壮观现象成为可能的神经机制。身体有着无数的物理间隔和复杂的操作，如何能在我们的头脑中出现并被感觉到呢？关于这个问题，最普遍的观点是假设存在一个“身心问题”，这个问题最好用分析哲学的工具来解决。然而，我们在这里的视角更为局限，而是关注生物学支架，没有它，身体肯定无法存在于心灵中。顺便说一句，我们相信，这种观点及其事实与身心问题有关，并对解决这个问题大有帮助。
V Ve spend a good part of our lives at tending to the sights and sounds of the world outside of us, oblivious to the fact that we (mentally speaking) exist in our bodies, and that our bodies exist in our minds. 1 This neglect is both good and bad: good when it allows us to let our own physical suffering go undetect ed, bad when it screens us from the bio logical roots of our selves. Be that as it may, the body does come to mind, in no uncertain terms, when injury or disease breaks down its integrity and causes pain. The body also comes to mind, somewhat less demandingly, in mo ments of joy, when physical lightness and ease of function inevitably make us aware of the body. What we would like to address in this essay, however, is not the obvious fact that the state of our bodies can be con veyed to our minds, but rather the neu rological mechanisms that enable this spectacular phenomenon. How can the body, with its myriad physical compart ments and complicated operations, show up in our minds and be felt? The most common perspective on this question assumes that there is a'mind-body problem,'which is best re solved using the tools of analytic philos ophy. Our perspective here, however, is more restricted, focusing instead on the biological scaffolding without which the body certainly cannot be present in the mind. We are convinced, incidentally, that this perspective and its facts are rel evant to the mind-body problem and go a long way toward solving it. Elsewhere we have addressed the connection, 2 but