The Organism-Environment Circle
摘要
The centrality of the body in phenomenological reflection profoundly modifies the concept of space and environment in which the ‘embodied’ subject moves, since, by moving, “the agent does not limit itself to modifying the relationship between kinesthetic and perceptive sensations, it operates a real transformation of the perceived environment”,1 opening the body to new perspectives and actions. Perception leads to movement and this results in a dynamic modification of perception, producing an emotive-cognitive response which is perceived in our ‘lived’ body. Movement, perception, emotion and cognition are therefore closely interrelated, in a circular system that defines the reciprocity of the organism-environment relationship, in which “the body is the active perceiver, and not a mediator between mind and world”.2