Notes

. In the words of our philosopher, there is always “another self that has already sided with the world

that is already open to certain of its aspects and synchronized with them

Merleau-Ponty explains that habitual behavior arises on the basis of a set of situations and responses that, despite not being identical, constitute a community of meaning
. This is possible because the body “understands” the situation in the face of which it must act.

“Habit expresses the power we have of dilating our being in the world, or of altering our existence through incorporating new instruments”

habit shows how we can adapt ourselves in the world/ alter ourselves to learn new skills that benefit us in future contexts

this non-automatic understanding of habitual acts that, despite not requiring an express intentionality, nonetheless form part of the operative intentionality that was mentioned at the beginning of this article (cf. Gallagher and Zahavi, 2008). Citing Leder, they state: “A skill is finally and fully learned when something that once was extrinsic, grasped only through explicit rules or examples, now comes to pervade my own corporeality. My arms know to swim, my mouth can at last speak the language

This innate undertanding of habitual routines emphasize that despite not requiring an intrest intentionally, still forms a part of our working mind.

in establishing the etymological root of the term “habit,” notes that the word have states a relation with what has been acquired by the subject as a possession, which in the case of the body is conserved as a dynamic corporeal scheme ' changing physical system

in figuring the origin of the word "habit", notes show the word has a relation which shows aquiration of a subject as a possession. Which in the case of the body it is conserved as a changing physical system