Mind/Body

I was trying to recall an article I had read which maintained that the mind and body are closely related, in terms of bodily awareness and control. I was interested in this because I have long held a similar conviction. I couldn't find the article, but a Google search revealed a huge number of web sources for the subject, both academic and therapeutic. It is evidently a subject of wide interest and concern, not just among philosophers.

I have nothing to add except to note that Heidegger, in his study of Nietzsche, draws attention to the latter's characterisation of the aesthetic sense as "physiology" (p96). "When Nietzsche says 'physiology' he does mean to emphasise the bodily state, but the latter is in itself always already something psychical, and therefore also a matter for psychology." In other words, as I understand it, the production and appreciation of artworks is based on bodily states and their effect on the mental realm with which they are intimately bound. In producing or contemplating a work of art that is affecting, one transcends normal human states by attaining what N. described as 'rapture' or 'frenzy'.

A quick Google search will find many entries which can expand on this introduction.