Embodied Simulation. Its Bearing on Aesthetic Experience and the Dialogue Between Neuroscience and the Humanities

Is there something invisible about reality that art reveals to all human beings? What is the ‘invisible’ Merleau-Ponty is talking about? ‘Già non attendere’ io tua dimanda, s’io m’intuassi, come tu t’inmii’. This is what Dante wrote in the IX Canto of Paradiso, addressing the blessed soul of Folco da Marsiglia.