Mind is Body

Mind is Body was the title of the longest Skreework of writing and the concept Is one of my life works that, even though I finished writing it, it will never be complete. I keep referring to it so perhaps ought to explain a little more.
Watching Tex, my dog outdoors earlier he came across some piss. A territorial dog marking. He studied it, thoroughly sniffing the area. As he 'read' it all his nose flared, produced loads of moisture dribbling from his mouth, his heart rate increased, pupils dilated as the details of the dog who had pissed were computed. This enbodiement of thought is of interest. The thought has a physical property. As you read words, physical changes take place in perpetration for what may happen.
In Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle reshapes our lazy language use that perpetuates Descartes myth of the ghost in the machine, the idea that the mind is a sort of computer that orders e machine the body. This is called, in philosophy, dualism.
Ryles attack and ultimately his reshaping of philosophical thought has parallels in other areas. The neurologist Candace Perts book Molecules of Emotion follows her research in to peptides and receptor sites. This research helped us understand how opiates lock on to receptor sites, not just in the brain but all over the body. It transpires that emotions are not just happening in our brains but all over us.
How and why this matters to artists and makers are largely theoretical. It won't affect how we work. Maintaining the intuitive reaction, the unprescriptive, none  premeditated work is the challenge. Structured systems, such as the idea of a designer maker are dependent, essentially on perpetuating Descartes myth. These practices are self conscious. Dance helps us to understand. The are choreographed practices but ballet, at it's best, goes full circle, returning to the unpracticed act of losing oneself in the music and expressing this physically. The artists job is to explain what it is like to exist. Our spontaneous, heartfelt stabs at it are always stronger than the studied. Once innocence is lost and we develope a history it can become harder to remain free. It is a question young design students often have trouble with. Will learning design history hinder their unique innovation? The answer is by the time you are considering the question you have already gone too far. After a while, a doctor, steeped in knowledge and xperiwnce can read a patient, often able to diagnose instantly. A long serving fireman often knows, without knowing how, when a building will collapse. Sometimes, with no evidence he will call his crew out of a burning building just in time. This kind of knowledge takes years. The maker is the same.