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seifollahifard E. Embodied Cognition from Ibn Sina's point of view. jpt 2024; 4 (3)
URL: http://jpt.modares.ac.ir/article-34-76328-en.html

From Islamic Philosophers' Perspective, particularly the Peripatetics, cognition is considered an act of the soul rather than the body. Contrary to the conventional philosophical approach that regards cognition as separate from the body, this article employs an analytical-descriptive methodology to examine the possibility and mechanism of bodily influence on cognition within the framework of Avicenna's philosophical and medical doctrines. Despite Avicenna's dualistic stance on the non-identity of soul and body, and his designation of the soul as the primary agent of cognition, his perspective on the soul-body relationship suggests a definition of embodied cognition wherein differences or changes in bodies across all levels of perception lead to alterations in the soul and, consequently, variations in their cognition of a single known object. Nevertheless, embodied cognition in the Avicennian system maintains a profound distinction from physicalism: the soul remains the fundamental principle in the emergence of cognition.

Keywords: 1. Avicenna (Ibn Sina), 2. Soul, 3. Body, 4. Embodied Cognition