| 09/12/2016 7:34 am |
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 OFFLINE | Take another example, walking. The same pressure which is the foot's on the ground, is also the ground's pressure on the foot. We can separate ground from foot, but not ground's resistance from foot's pressure. The en#2 is not the separable environment but the environment participating in a living process. The en#2 is not the ground, but the ground-participating-in-walking, its resistance. The behavior cannot be separate from this ground-participating. If the body is hanging in air and attempts to walk, its swing will be much wider and it will not move forward; it won't be walking. In deep water "walking" will immediately be thrashing; the motions will be different. The body cannot enact the same behavior without the ground. And, the ground cannot be ground-pressure (it cannot be this en#2) without the behavior. Without walking there is still a ground in the sense of en#1, but not as en#2. The en#2 is a function of ongoing living, and exists only in that living. |
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| 09/22/2016 1:06 pm |
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OFFLINE | For me "interaction-first" clarifies the categories of en. En#1 specifies the object as not participating in the actor's activity. En#2 specifies the object is the actor's activity. En#3 specifies the object was the actor's activity and is not participating in the actor's activity, specifying the actor is a spectator now with regard to it.
For example I am walking somewhere and avoid a rock in my path. The rock is specified as en#1. I am threatened and pick up the rock to throw at my enemy. The rock is specified as en#2. My enemy flees and I am so delighted with that rock I go find it and take it back to my place and add it to my trove of possessions. This rock now is specified en#3. En#3 specifies me as spectator and actor with regard to an object.
Something unspecified with regard to activity is en#0. |
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