Touching Intelligence
Touching Intelligence
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感动智慧
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2002
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David Morris
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David Morris
The theme of “Epistemology and Movement” invites us to seek knowing and intelligence within living movement itself. In this paper I discern a knowing intelligence in the movement of touch. By interpreting results of dynamic systems theory within a phenomenological framework, I show how our experience of the tactile length of things is constituted within our movement of wielding them. But how does wielding something give us an experience of its tactile length, a property belonging to the thing? Should it not give us an experience of properties of the body and thing as one moving couple? I try to resolve this problem via a phenomenological study of what I call resonant and reverberant modalities of wielding. When we resonate with wielded things, we feel properties of the body-thing couple; when we reverberate with them, we feel properties belonging to the thing. But resonant and reverberant modalities overlap, and it is really a question of focus. I show that different melodic contours of wielding, different movement patterns, bring resonant or reverberant modalities, and correlatively different feelings of body and thing, into focus. At the end, I draw out several philosophical implications about movement and tactile intelligibility, and about the perceiver, the perceived and their interrelation.