Chapter 38: Embodiment and the Lived Body

The lived body (Leib) is not a container for the mind but the carrier’s self-referential boundary—the interface through which an E₃ observer engages the relational web from a particular structural position. Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of embodiment is reformulated: the distinction between the body as experienced from inside (Leib) and the body as observed from outside (K"orper) is a register distinction, two readout projections of a single structural fact. Perception is bodily engagement: what can be perceived depends on the body’s sensorimotor repertoire, which constrains the available covers. The body is a boundary in the precise sense of the relevant chapter—a lemniscate-like interface between interiority and exteriority.