Apus: The Extended Proprioception – Decolonial Neuroscience
Apus: The Extended Proprioception – Decolonial Neuroscience
“To feel the body is to feel the Earth; to move is to move the world.” — Jackson Cionek
The Body as Territory
Science often defines proprioception as the sense that allows us to perceive the position and movement of our own body.
But in Amerindian cosmologies, the body is never separated from the environment — it is territory,
a living extension of the soil, waters, and winds.
The concept of Apus expands proprioception beyond the physical limits of the body.
Apus is extended proprioception — the feeling of oneself in the world and the feeling of the world within oneself.
It is the recognition that the body is both subject and landscape —
an open system of exchange between the inside and the outside, the biological and the cosmic.
The Damasian Mind and Expanded Perception
From the perspective of the Damasian Mind, consciousness arises from the integration of interoception (inner feeling) and proprioception (positional feeling).
Apus emerges when this integration expands —
when the boundary between body and environment dissolves in respiratory, thermal, and emotional synchrony.
The air that enters and leaves, the sound that resonates, the warmth that touches the skin —
all of these are forms of expanded proprioceptive information.
It is the body reorganizing the environment and being reorganized by it in continuous feedback loops.
This expanded perception forms what we call the ecological state of consciousness —
when the nervous system stops trying to control and begins to feel the flow of the world as part of its own metabolism.
The Body-Earth and Ecological Consciousness (revised)
The human body is a system of rhythms that echo the rhythms of the planet.
The heartbeat synchronizes with the waves of breathing;
hormonal cycles follow solar rhythms;
and attentional cycles align with daylight and nighttime silence.
While the Sun is the primary modulator of our circadian rhythms,
the light reflected by the Moon exerts a subtle influence, especially at night.
During full moon phases, the increased luminosity can slightly delay sleep onset
or reduce its duration — a vestige of our adaptation to natural light.
But it is the Sun, with its daily variations in intensity and spectrum,
that precisely regulates the human biological clock:
marking melatonin release, adjusting body temperature,
and synchronizing energy metabolism with the Earth’s light–dark cycle.
To perceive Apus is to perceive this invisible dance between body and planet.
Each step on the ground reorganizes the Earth’s electric field.
Each breath is a molecular exchange with the trees and the sea.
When we become aware of this, we cease to exist as isolated individuals
and begin to exist as cells of a larger body — the body of the Earth.
Electrical Synapses and Cosmic Belonging
Electrical synapses, unlike chemical ones, allow bidirectional and instantaneous communication between neurons.
They do not rely on dopaminergic rewards or complex delays —
they are pure connections of presence, energy that flows both ways.
These synapses are the physiological metaphor of cosmic belonging:
the state in which humans do not “use” the environment but exchange energy with it.
It is the act of touching and being touched by things.
When the nervous system enters this regime of electrical synchrony,
perception becomes circular — the body feels the environment, and the environment feels the body.
This is spirituality in action: to act without separation, trusting the coherence of the whole.
Decolonial Neuroscience and the Ethics of Feeling
Colonial thought separated the body from nature and consciousness from matter.
Decolonial Neuroscience restores this lost link:
it shows that feeling is the shared language among all living beings.
Ethics is born from feeling.
Feeling arises from metabolism.
And metabolism is life’s dance with the Earth.
In practice, Apus proposes a new neuro-ecological ethics:
to act with awareness of the bioelectrical and emotional impact each gesture leaves on the collective.
To care for oneself is to care for the environment;
to belong is both a biophysical and spiritual act.
Synthesis
Apus is the sense that unites body and cosmos.
It is the expanded proprioception that reminds us we are always in relation —
with the ground we walk on, the air we breathe, and the rhythm of all living beings around us.
The body is the first territory of consciousness;
the Earth is the expanded body in which that consciousness is mirrored.
To recognize Apus is to feel the world not as a background,
but as a living part of our own nervous system.
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