This article explores the relationship between meaning and the body, and the role of mind and brain in mediating this relationship. Drawing on research on “grounded cognition” in cognitive neuropsychology, I consider the mechanisms through which meanings become embodied. I illustrate my argument using examples of the ways in which meaning conditions experiences of illness and health. Focusing especially on the example of religious healing through spirit possession, I explore how the state of one's body can be “conditioned” by meaning, and in turn, how the condition of one's body may affect cognitive processes of meaning making. In doing so, this article aims not only to inform anthropological understandings of embodiment, but also the way we think about cognition, knowledge, and meaning. [Embodiment, brain, grounded cognition, spirit possession, religious healing]

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思维，身体，大脑和意义条件

本文探讨了意义与身体之间的关系，以及思想和大脑在调解这种关系中的作用。通过对认知神经心理学中“基础认知”的研究，我考虑了意义得以体现的机制。我通过举例说明疾病和健康经历的意义。我特别关注通过拥有精神来进行宗教治疗的例子，我探索了如何通过意义来“调节”身体的状态，进而探讨人的身体状况如何影响意义形成的认知过程。通过这样做，本文不仅旨在为人类学上对体现的理解提供信息，而且还为我们思考认知，知识和意义的方式提供信息。[实施，大脑，扎根的认知，