"…. He argued that the body, instead of being a mere object in the world, forms the foundation of all human experience. For Merleau-Ponty, we are conscious of our world through our bodies, or even more accurately, the body is the very condition of our having a world. Throughout his work, Merleau-Ponty stresses the primacy of perception- in other words, the senses - that function as the interface between the self and the world, and therefore mediate and bring into being the relationship between the subject and his or her surroundings.”