A Child's Body

I’m thinking our awareness of our bodies—its materiality and corporeality—actually has a very significant bearing on our sense of selves. I mean contrast children and adults, for example. As a child I don’t remember paying all that much attention to my body—how it moves, whether it’s a separate part of me, a vessel for my consciousness, etc. etc. Of course as a child your world rarely go beyond playgrounds and chocolates but still, as you grow, you become more aware of the way your body functions. As you know more about your body, you also begin to set limits and paradigms for how you function. I wonder if that makes a larger point about how the more knowledge you have, the more paradigms you created or impose. And those paradigms sort of constitute our selves. It’s like suddenly, I have a body and a mind that are sometimes rather disembodied and our bodies sometimes act so foreign, it’s as though they’re independent of us, which is sometimes rather surreal.

Actually all these reminds me of Gregor. His body and his mind are often at odds with each other. Also, there’s Isserley, whose body perform a rather utilitarian function that is divorced from her mind/emotions.

Not sure what to make of all these… rather convoluted at the moment…