Embodied Knowledge and Extra-Verbal Culture Version: 20191229 Author Information: Dr. Andreas Goppold The contact information is a graphic to keep away spammers. This file is located on the www server of the author: http://www.noologie.de/embodied.htm http://www.noologie.de/embodied.pdf Short Table of Contents 1 Local Hyperlinks.................................................................................................................9 2 Abbreviations and Terms...................................................................................................10 3 Abstract..............................................................................................................................12 4 The Hypertext and Multimedia Techniques used..............................................................13 5 Embodied vs. Objective Knowledge.................................................................................15 6 Current Approaches to Embodied Knowledge..................................................................25 7 Materials on Anthropological Theory................................................................................61 8 Language: A Subtle Ethnocentrism?................................................................................122 9 The Deep Structures of Mythology.................................................................................127 10 Notes on Various Dynamic Traditions...........................................................................149 11 Comments on Ethnological Theory and History...........................................................151 12 Conclusion: The Living Feeling Experience.................................................................174 13 Literature.......................................................................................................................174 Endnotes..................................................................................................................................175 1 Long Table of Contents 1 Local Hyperlinks.................................................................................................................9 2 Abbreviations and Terms...................................................................................................10 2.1 Embodied Knowledge................................................................................................10 2.2 Metaphysics................................................................................................................10 2.3 Transcendent...............................................................................................................11 3 Abstract..............................................................................................................................12 4 The Hypertext and Multimedia Techniques used..............................................................13 5 Embodied vs. Objective Knowledge.................................................................................15 5.1 Knowledge of the World as Objects...........................................................................15 5.2 Metaphysics and Ethnocentrism.................................................................................17 5.3 The Problem of Transcendental Meaning of the Signified........................................18 5.3.1 Neuronal Representations...................................................................................18 5.3.2 Information on Saussure's Theory......................................................................19 5.3.3 The Essay of Jorge Luis Borges..........................................................................23 5.3.4 Dividing the Objects of the Universe into Classes and Subdivisions.................24 5.3.5 The Search for the Perfect Language................................................................24 5.3.6 En Archae en ho Logos.......................................................................................24 5.3.7 Thomas Aquinas..................................................................................................25 6 Current Approaches to Embodied Knowledge..................................................................25 6.1 Pragmatic Knowledge................................................................................................25 6.2 Konrad Lehmann: Ich denkender Körper...................................................................26 6.2.1 Wahrnehmung erfordert Handlung.....................................................................26 6.2.2 Die Welt: ein Möglichkeitsraum.........................................................................27 6.2.3 Die innere Handlung...........................................................................................28 6.3 Perspectivism and Embodied Cognition....................................................................28 6.4 James J. Gibson..........................................................................................................28 6.5 Pierre Bourdieu..........................................................................................................29 6.6 Lakoff and Johnson: Embodied Mind........................................................................30 6.7 Sloterdijk "Sphären" and "Anthropotechniken".........................................................30 6.7.1 About German "Sprachblasen"...........................................................................31 6.8 Jordan Peterson..........................................................................................................31 6.8.1 A Lesson for Artificial Intelligence.....................................................................33 3 6.8.2 A Connection to Jordanus Brunus.......................................................................33 6.8.3 Jordan Peterson: Maps of Meaning.....................................................................33 6.8.4 The World of Value vs. Objectivism...................................................................34 6.8.5 Quotes from "Maps of Meaning"........................................................................35 6.8.6 A Condensation of "Maps of Meaning"..............................................................36 6.8.7 A Discussion of Peterson's Work........................................................................38 6.8.8 The Polarization of Sexes...................................................................................40 6.8.9 The Alchemist Ouroboros...................................................................................41 6.8.10 A Comparison of the Mythology of Campbell and Peterson..............................44 6.8.11 More Information about Joseph Campbell's Work.............................................46 6.8.12 All those Hero'es with a Thousand Faces...........................................................47 6.8.13 The Journey of the Heroine.................................................................................49 6.9 Nietzsche: "Die unbefleckte Erkenntnis"...................................................................51 6.9.1 Nietzsche and Heraklitos....................................................................................53 6.9.2 Nietzsche and "Völkerpsychologie"...................................................................53 6.9.3 Nietzsche: Etwas, das "sich versteht", ein Volk..................................................55 6.9.4 Kulturnetzspinne Nietzsche................................................................................57 6.9.5 Nietzsche and the Art of High Tight-Rope Walking...........................................58 6.9.6 Nietzsche's Ideas about the "Übermensch".........................................................59 7 Materials on Anthropological Theory................................................................................61 7.1.1 Theoretical Anthropology...................................................................................61 7.1.2 The New Adventures of the Human Spirit..........................................................61 7.1.3 Why so many USA Professors have a Large Beard............................................62 7.2 What is Human Nature?.............................................................................................66 7.2.1 Peter Corning: Cosmos and History...................................................................66 7.2.2 Human Culture has formed Human Nature........................................................67 7.2.3 Mythologies of Deformed Smiths.......................................................................68 7.2.4 Women and Hard Work.......................................................................................71 7.2.5 Jonathan Kingdon: Self-Made Man....................................................................73 7.2.6 Peter Sloterdijk and Incubator Theory................................................................73 7.2.7 Marijn Nieuwenhuis: Taking Up The Challenge Of Space................................75 7.2.8 Human Infants Depend on a Society to Survive.................................................75 7.3 The Observable Universe is Socially Constructed.....................................................76 7.3.1 Strukturalismus und Wirklichkeit.......................................................................77 4 7.3.2 Explored Territory and Unexplored Territory.....................................................77