ABSTRACT
While Chapter 2 considers truth and knowledge in its abstract, public, representational forms, there is an important sense in which this is incomplete. There is an embodied, private, and subjective form of knowledge which does not receive sufficient attention. The essential puzzle is the possibility for one to ‘know more than one can tell’, not just because one does not have the ‘words’ for it. We can develop ‘a feel’ for the material world that we inhabit, and it is only due to our cultural habit of privileging ‘head’ over ‘hand’ through Cartesian dualism that we do not pay enough attention to it. The embodied cognition perspective in psychology has been a useful means to exorcise the ghost in our minds, restoring cognitive function to all ways in which we interact with the world. This has been done by formally recognising that the mind is constituted by the brain, the body, and the world. Just as the heart is the main organ of the circulatory system, but incomplete without the very last capillaries in the body, the cognitive system is dominated by the brain, but the naked brain is not useful for cognition. Makerspaces serve this function, but how?
