AI and Gestalt therapy
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Concept

Leib / lived body

Thomas Fuchs, to whom the following chapter is devoted, stays with the same image and provides the answer: he describes the body as a ‘resonating chamber for all emotions’ (Fuchs, 2023, p. 112).

Excerpted verbatim from the thesis · Ch. 2.2 — 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’

Related concepts

IntercorporealitySelf-resonanceResonance5E cognitionPrimary empathy

Occurrences in the text

  1. Ch. 1.1 1.1 Personal Motivation

    … – or, as Hartmut Rosa would put it, the ‘unavailable’. This mutual attunement requires a physicality and an intimacy that is only possible between living organisms.

  2. Ch. 1.5 1.5 Methodological Approach and Structure of the Thesis

    (3) AI fails because of this ‘inter-corporeality’, as it lacks a body, an ’I’ and a potential ’you’.

  3. Ch. 1.5 1.5 Methodological Approach and Structure of the Thesis

    … ight of this, Gestalt therapy is regarded as a method that fosters this resonance through physicality, presence and the dialogical ‘in-between’. This thesis is discussed in the following chap …

  4. Ch. 1.5 1.5 Methodological Approach and Structure of the Thesis

    … een’) and its characteristics (Rosa’s concept of resonance), before the concept of ‘inter-corporeality’ is further developed with reference to Merleau-Ponty and Fuchs, supplemented by Stern’s …

  5. Ch. 2.2 2.2 The space of encounter: Buber’s ‘in-between’ and Rosa’s ‘resonance’

    … is brings into focus the very dimension that makes resonance possible in the first place: corporeality.

  6. Ch. 2.3 2.3 Inter-corporeality and intersubjectivity: the bodily realisation of the encounter (as the core of the therapeutic relationship)

    … mselves. As a body, they are a measurable, treatable object viewed from the outside. As a physical body, they are the lived body: that through which a person perceives, moves and encounters the …

  7. Ch. 3.1 3.1 Embodied & Emotive: Awareness and bodily self-resonance

    One’s own physicality is an important diagnostic tool in the therapeutic process. This ‘self-resonance’ refers …

  8. Ch. 3.3 3.3 Enacted: Presence in the Here and Now

    … ical tradition classifies human experience into a series of basic forms: self-experience, corporeality, spatiality, temporality, intersubjectiv ity and the lifeworld (Fuchs & Schmidsberger, 20 …

  9. Ch. 4 4 The ontological limits of AI

    … pture, which manifests itself in two stages: without a biological body, there is no inter-corporeality and no self-resonance (4.1). Without one’s own boundary of contact, there is no encounter …

  10. Ch. 4.1 4.1 The lack of corporeality: echo instead of resonance

    If AI fails to understand because it lacks a body, this raises the question of why corporeality is a prerequisite for understanding and feeling in the first place. Fuchs answers this by …

  11. Ch. 6.1 6.1 Interpretation of the results

    The answer rests on three points. The first is physicality. Only a living organism must sustain itself, and only when one’s own survival is at stake …

  12. Ch. 6.1 6.1 Interpretation of the results

    … wers the second research question. It was: Why does therapeutic resonance (underpinned by physicality, presence and the dialogical ‘in-between’) remain inaccessible and thus irreplaceable? Re …

  13. Ch. 6.1 6.1 Interpretation of the results

    But if corporeality, presence and the dialogical ‘in-between’ cannot be manufactured, then a method that plac …

  14. Ch. 6.3 6.3 Outlook

    … cial expressions and biometric feedback could significantly enhance the illusion of inter-corporeality. This does not affect the thesis of this work, as even a sensor does nothing to alter the …