It is now widely accepted that a mind that is saturated with bodily experience is necessary for the dual constitution of the self and the perceptual field,and that the deployment of perception is always associated with a double reafferent flow-a tactile flow and a proprioceptive flow.In this article,I will discuss this issue in a pragmatically orientated way (following John Dewey),with a possible rejoinder from the phenomenological tradition (specifically Merleau-Ponty).I make cross-references between the thought of Merleau-Ponty and of Dewey,and I believe that many insights can be drawn from such comparison.By bringing pragmatic insights into the phenomenological context,I will place Dewey's pragmatic way of thinking about the embodied mind in a different light.However,different though they may seem,I will further argue that there is a deep sympathy between the phenomenological and pragmatic perspectives of these two thinkers,especially when we take Dewey's existential ontology into consideration.