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This concept reminds us to return to form, the body, the structure and support.
Thrivability is not a abstract idea to simply and only be imagined. It is a yearning for a lived experience in the body, in your body, in our collective body, in the physical form of the world. Thrivability is not purely materialist in the sense of only focusing on the form either though. Thrivability doesn't assume the mind and awareness live inside nerve cells in the head.
Embodiment, as differentiated from materialist approaches to mind, allows us to have the full sensory awareness of our bodies to what is outside us (through the five usual senses) and also of the awareness of what is inside us. Our gut feels, magnetic pulls, heart sensations, and feelings are all a part of embodiment. Thrivability requires embracing our bodies as sensory organs, and wonders what more is there to be felt, what magic lives in us that goes beyond atoms and neurons.
Thrivability is not a abstract idea to simply and only be imagined. It is a yearning for a lived experience in the body, in your body, in our collective body, in the physical form of the world. Thrivability is not purely materialist in the sense of only focusing on the form either though. Thrivability doesn't assume the mind and awareness live inside nerve cells in the head.
Embodiment, as differentiated from materialist approaches to mind, allows us to have the full sensory awareness of our bodies to what is outside us (through the five usual senses) and also of the awareness of what is inside us. Our gut feels, magnetic pulls, heart sensations, and feelings are all a part of embodiment. Thrivability requires embracing our bodies as sensory organs, and wonders what more is there to be felt, what magic lives in us that goes beyond atoms and neurons.