This book is really insightful, but I had some questions in this book. Below is one of my questions about the author's explanation between our body and conceptual systems.
I found an interesting sentence in this book: “Because our conceptual systems grow out of our bodies, meaning is grounded in and through our bodies” (p. 111). In this book, the author emphasizes the importance of the “body” in our conceptual systems. Regarding this point, the author articulates how our body works for our conceptual systems in the following way.
Our rational mind (reason) arises from the commonalities of our bodies and brains and the environments we live in. This implies that reason doesn’t transcend our body. Of course, this is a part of his explanations, but if the author’s above explanation is true, our conceptual systems seem to be emanated from our body, and the meaning is embedded in our bodies at first glance. However, I don’t still make sense of the commonalities of these three factors: body, brain, and environment. What are the commonalities between them? Also, the author tries to explain our subjective experience (mind or reason) from objective things (body, brain, and environment), but I suppose this approach seems a categorical mistake between UL and UR quadrant.
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