Neurophenomenology and Intersubjectivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Axiomathes December 1, 2022 Mirko Di Bernardo 7 citations
This article outlines the main conceptual ideas needed to understand recent research on the neurobiology of interpersonal experience. It analyzes, at anthropological, phenomenological, and epistemological levels, how recognizing otherness and intercorporeity among humans changes the image of nature, suggesting a new relationship between living bodies, neurophysiological systems, and empathy. The hypothesis is that neurophenomenology—an evolutionary, multidimensional, autopoietic approach—can probe the preconditions for a phenomenology of intersubjectivity shaped by the neuroscientific discovery of mirror neurons. Neuroscientific data are interpreted through an interdisciplinary lens to offer a unified theoretical framework.