I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned | Melanie Challenger

To understand the experience of life, don’t look to the mind. Look to the body In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “ somatophobia ” to describe the strange human delusion that we are minds rather than bodies. Forty years later, artificial intellige...

Source: [Guardian US](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/30/alive-body-life-experience)