LINGUAGEM E MEDITAÇÃO: CONSIDERAÇÕES DE UM CORREDOR DE LONGAS DISTÂNCIAS
Simbio-Logias Revista Eletrônica de Educação Filosofia e Nutrição 2018 DOI: 10.32905/19833253.2018.13.10p55 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that a lonely long-distance run can instantiate a meditation, distinguishing contemplation (non-reflexive bodily monitoring) from meditation (reflexive, involving a "self" in past memories, counterfactual thoughts, and future thinking). Proposes that meditation promotes detachment from present sensorimotor contingencies and that this detachment depends on linguistic abilities. |
Abstract
Can a lonely long-distance run instantiate a meditation? Based on personal experience with running, I develop an affirmative answer to this question. First, I distinguish contemplation from meditation, proposing that the former is a non-reflexive activity focused on the monitoring of one’s own body, and that the latter is a reflexive activity that includes a “self” in memories of episodes from the personal past as well as in episodic counterfactual thoughts and in episodic future thinking. Next, I suggest that meditation, by its characteristics, promotes a distancing from the sensorimotor contingencies of the present and that such detachment is dependent on our linguistic abilities. Finally, I question whether these remarks shed light into the debate about the embodied status of language.