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Phenomenology of Perception: Merleau-Ponty and Embodied Consciousness

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Merleau-Ponty's central claim is that consciousness is not an inner 'ghost' that merely observes the world; rather, it is a 'lived body' that is always already engaged with its environment. He famously argued that 'the body is our general medium for having a world.'

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You see a cup of coffee on the table. But is your perception just a camera-like recording of shapes and colors, or is it already shaped by your ability to reach out and grasp the cup?