Perception, Gibson argued, is not the achievement of a mind in a body, but of the organism as a whole in its environment, and is tantamount to the organism’s own exploratory movement through the world. If mind is anywhere, then, it is not ‘inside the head’ rather than ‘out there’ in the world. To the contrary, it is immanent in the network of sensory pathways that are set up by virtue of the perceiver’s immersion in his or her environment. (..) The mind .. is not limited by the skin.

..the organism and the person could be one and the same. Instead of trying to reconstruct the complete human being from two separate but complementary
components, respectively biophysical and sociocultural, held together with a film of psychological cement, it struck me that we should be trying to find a way of talking about human life that eliminates the need to slice it up into these different layers.

//Ingold, T. 2000. The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill. London: Routledge.