The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness
edited by Manos Tsakiris and Helena De Preester
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“It is a collection of scientific articles, not of philosophical ones, all focused, as the title indicates, on interoception, that is, the sense of the body from within. A useful definition of interoception is that provided in a 2018 ‘roadmap’ of the subject, co-authored by Sahib Khalsa: it is ‘the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body’s internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels.’ This internal landscape includes heart, gut, skin, and so on, and is constitutive of how we feel, whether or not we are aware of this back office activity, as it were.” Read more...
Noga Arikha, Philosopher
