Sensation and action cannot be cleanly separated in bodily experience

Evidence

How clear is the distinction between physical pain and psychological (or social) suffering? All feelings of pain involve physical changes that are not only internal to the body (muscular, biochemical) but also externally visible (voice, demeanor, gait) and culturally readable. This fact alone complicates the too-neat distinction between physical pain and mental pain. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 404 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ritual and mundane activity cannot be cleanly separated; Physical and psychological pain are not cleanly separable categories — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 404; The body is the instrument that cannot be used like other instruments (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Physical and psychological pain are not cleanly separable categories #exemplifies (0.78) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 404
• Ritual and mundane activity cannot be cleanly separated #exemplifies (0.75)