From Comportment To Mirror Neurons: One Inside the Other

Dana Ulveland

“What I am trying to get to you is more mysterious; it is entwined in the very roots of

being, in the impalpable source of sensations.”

The flesh we are speaking of is

not matter. It is the coiling

over of the visible upon the

seeing body, of the tangible

upon the touching body . . .

This bursting forth of the mass

of the body toward the things.

This pact between them and me

according to which I lend them my

body in order that they inscribe

upon it and give me their

resemblance.

We must . . . think the flesh . .

. as the concrete emblem of a

general manner of being.

Since things and my body are made

of the same stuff, vision must

somehow take place in them; their

manifest visibility must be

repeated in the body by a secret

visibility. . . .

Things have an internal equivalent

in me; they arouse in me a carnal

formula of their presence.

“I have only to see something to know how to reach it and deal with it, even if I do not know how this

happens in the nervous machine.” Eye and Mind

Ménilmontant

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