Embodied Simulation and the Coding-Problem of Simulation Theory. Interventions from Cultural Sciences
Lecture at the Conference of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society on „Minding the Body“ Berlin, Juni 2011.
The rising interest in concepts such as mimetic functions, imitation, simulation, embodiment, language and metaphors, which emerged after and in consequence of the discovery of the mirror system and the MNS (Mirror Neuron System), are discussed in this article from the perspective of cultural science, a field for which this whole register of concepts sounds quite familiar. Research in the history of culture has always been based in the conviction of a close connection between mind, imitation, gestures and acting.