Bodyhood

All its manifold activities come into play; it produces "bodihood," solidity, and extension, and all the phenomena that go with these.

From this point of view it makes no sense to stick rigidly to the idea of our own bodyhood as something with bounded extension in space.

This aspect of Bateson's work was taken forward by Maturana and Varela under the title of 'biology of cognition', using the mechanism of structural coupling, which dealt directly with how differences in bodihood dynamics specify the lived behavioural reality.

A human being is a manner of living in conversations that arises in each individual human being in the dynamic relation of his or her Homo sapiens sapiens bodyhood and the medium formed by other human beings and the rest of the biosphere.

Not bodihood, but the actual body.