Quo vadis, Self? - A Comment on "The Importance of Sensing One's Movements in the World for the Sense of Personal Identity" by Haselager, Broens & Quilici Gonzalez
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Quo vadis, Self? Commento a The Importance of Sensing One's Movements in the World for the Sense of Personal Identity di Haselager, Broens e Quilici Gonzalez
Riassunto: Il presente testo discute il nucleo teorico dell’argomentazione proposta da Haselager, Broens e Quilici Gonzalez in The Importance of Sensing One’s Movements in the World for the Sense of Personal Identity, secondo cui il movimento spontaneo è il fattore corporeo più rilevante rispetto alla genesi dell’identità personale nei processi psichici. Questo lavoro cerca inoltre di mostrare come tale principio possa essere ricompreso in un quadro epistemologico che renda conto della duplice dinamica sottesa alla costituzione del sé, data dall’intersezione fra il Mind-Body Problem e il Mind-Culture Problem. Le interpretazioni suggerite concernono la possibilità di ancorare le esperienze del’io alle sensazioni corporee intese come manifestazioni di un’ontologia della carne, e alla matrice semiosica interente sia l’attività del movimento che la proto consapevolezza della potenzialità del movimento stesso. Infatti, anche nei primi movimenti che generano la sensazione di essere “qualcuno” e non “qualcosa” si innesca una ricerca di senso realizzata progressivamente come individuazione di una direzione, ossia la presa in carico di una meta e l’elaborazione di un progetto.
Parole chiave: Agentività; Soggettività; Tecnologie del corpo; Ontologia della carne; Culturalismo metodologico.
Abstract: This paper discusses the core arguments proposed by Haselager, Broens & Quilici Gonzalez in their paper The Importance of Sensing One’s Movements in the World for the Sense of Personal Identity, according to which spontaneous movement is the most relevant bodily factor with respect to the genesis of personal identity in human psychic processes. Moreover, this research aims to show that this principle could be included in an epistemological framework that can account for the double dynamic underlying the constitution of the Self, given by the intersection between the Mind-Body Problem and the Mind-Culture Problem. The paper suggests that it is possible to bind “I”-Experiences on the one hand to bodily sensations, understood as manifestations of a “flesh ontology”, and on the other to a semiotic matrix which is related to both the activity of movement and the proto-awareness of the potentiality for movement itself. Indeed, the early movements that generate the sensation of being “someone” and not only “something” already trigger a search for sense which is progressively carried out by determining a direction, i.e. choosing a goal and working out a strategy to reach that goal.
Keywords: Agency; Subjectivity; Body Technologies; Flesh Ontology; Methodological Culturalism.
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