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Psychology Section Annual Conference "Nature and Human Nature",
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concept of embodiment is well known: that our behaviours,
motivations, thoughts and feelings are both generated and
constrained by our physical nature. But, as is common with
standard psychology approaches, this can serve to reify the
notion of a world of individuals: isolated, separated bodies
passing through an external environment in much the same way as
actors play out their roles against a painted backdrop.
Moreover, as psychologists, we attempt to abstract the variables
that we want to study, isolating our participants in a
'controlled' (often artificial) environment in the belief that
this then represents a pure or baseline effect, fr