The body is the agent

Thus, living beings might be understood as a remarkable kind of organisation of matter: a bounded, metabolically open, self-maintaining form that gives rise to purposeful, intelligent action. This is key to understanding both the skills of our flesh, and why we can think of ourselves as being ‘deskilled’ today. When we recognise that our bodies are intrinsically intelligent in their organisation, we don’t need a conscious agent beyond the flesh. The body is the agent from which intelligence emerges and also, in the fullest sense, who we are. Deskilling the body

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