Your body isn't a tool your mind drives — it's how you think at all

Merleau-Ponty argued the mind isn't a ghost piloting a body-machine: perception is already shaped by a body that reaches, balances, and copes with the world before you ever consciously think about it. A skilled typist's fingers "know" the keyboard without her picturing it. That bodily know-how is where meaning begins, not a separate mental act layered on top.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception — Part One, "The Body" (1945; trans. 1962)
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