THE REMOTE BODY: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF TELEPRESENCE AND RE-EMBODIMENT

Exploring the phenomenology of remote practices mad e possible by recent technological advances, such as telesurgery, will r eveal the role of proprioception in agency and ownership of action and furthermore deli mit the possibility of re-embodiment through technological interfaces. An understanding of the lived body, viewed through the philosophical paradigms of theorists Husserl and Me rleau-Ponty, will demonstrate the role of the corporeal schema and intercorporeality in an agent's interaction with the immediate environment and hence elucidate the limit s of achieving a seamless remote interaction as good as the "real thing." These cons iderations are fundamental for grounding the bioethical, legal, and epistemologica l issues that arise in remote interaction, particularly in the case of telesurger y.

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