Acts of the Soul: Embryology and Birth Psychology
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In the modern view of neuropsychology the embryo does not have much chance to be accepted as a being with a mind or soul. Like the human body in the modern somatic philosophy — ‘you are not present there in that body’, ‘there is no self or soul living in this body,’ — the body of the embryo has been ghosted.
Jaap ponders leading questions concerning the embryo: such as, Who or what is realizing itself? What are we actually doing when we are an embryo? How do we exist there and then?
An embryo behaves. It is still shaping its body, it moves, it performs. The first manifestation of behavior we exhibit as the psychosomatic body-mind being that we are is our morphological behavior. The gestures we make on the physiological level— going upright, finding the balance, centering: these are acts of the soul.