| 09/12/2016 7:27 am |
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 OFFLINE | En#2 is the reflexively identical environment; it is identical with the organism's living process. Body and en are one event, one process. For example, it is air-coming-into-lungs-and-blood cells. We can view this event as air (coming in), or as (a coming into) lungs and body cells. Either way it is one event, viewed as en or as body. Here we are not calling it "environment" because it is all around, but because it participates within the life process. And, "body" is not just the lungs, but the lungs expanding. Air coming in and lungs expanding cannot be separate. The point is that we need not split between the lungs and air. |
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| 09/12/2016 7:30 am |
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OFFLINE | I think Non duality, Participation and Dynamics ("time" / change) are the key elements here.
en#2 prevents the pitfall of an artificial separation between body and en. |
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| 01/29/2017 9:52 am |
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OFFLINE | Yes, en#2, as environment that is "reflexively identical" with the process, avoids the error of artificially separating body and en.
John Dewey spoke of organism and environment being "an integration." Gendlin makes this understanding the operational ground for his alternative basic model.
En#2 is the process. And so, yes, it is change.
As for "time, we can take the occurring body-en#2 process as "present." En#3 is "past," a sort of past that is not left behind but participates in shaping the next event (IV-B). The en#3 past is organic and fundamental to all process whereas the linear past is a human symbolic construct.
The first sense of "future" comes in II with the concept "functional cycle," any occurring body-en#2 is also the implying of further b-en#2. In IV-B this functioning-in-the-process future is further explicated. |
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