The sense of body

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Body Representation

Ceci n’est pas un corps

The sense of body.

Science, Art, dance and ethics.

Prop. XIII. The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body, or a certain mode of extension actually existing and nothing else.
Corollary- Hence it follows that man consists of mind and body, and that the human body exists according as we feel it.
Note - From these we understand not only that the human mind is united to the body, but also what must be understood by the union of the mind and body. But in truth no one will be able to understand this adequately or distinctly unless, at first, he is sufficiently acquainted with the nature of our body.

Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (p. 47)

Nature also teaches me, but these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst, and so on, that I'm not merely present in my body as a sailor is present in a ship, but that I'm very closely joined and, as it were, intermingled with it, so that I and the body form a unit. If this were not so, I, who am nothing but thinking thing, would not feel pain when the body was hurt, but would perceive the damage purely by intellect, just as a sailor perceives by sights, if anything in his ship is broken.

Descartes, Meditation VI