Excellent digestion! I'll fully admit that my body has a kind of momentum. The running example is perfect. For the 1st mile (for certain), every breath and every step seems equivalently doubted, ungainly, awkward. As I literally force myself into the 2nd mile, I suspect my body changes. I begin thinking about other things. Some automatic part of me has begun to take control. By the 4th mile, I am completely automatic.
That automation seems to be a forcing structure. In contrast, when I'm doing calisthenics, I never achieve such automation. At any given position or movement, any one of my multifarious weaknesses might cause me to fail. My lower or upper back kinks or spasms, the cartiledge in my wrist will crumple, my epicondyl will sprain, etc. I can get into a kind of "flow" or groove when doing it, so that my self dissolves or I begin thinking about other things. But here, unlike running, as soon as I begin thinking about my body again, that momentum evaporates and I, again, doubt every movement. So, there are some types of activity that have more "convinced" regimes than other types of activity. In my 4th mile of running, I am like Nick, convinced of some "belief", with no doubt. But I never achieve that state in calisthenics. On 09/21/2017 01:44 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > Somehow I imagine that Nick means to say there are costly signals in this > game — that motor action is thicker than conversation or reflection. > > If I am walking across a snowfield that I know to be filled with crevasses, > and I know I can’t tell which snow holds weight and which doesn’t, my > movement is really different than it is putting my feet on the floor beside > the bed in the morning. > > To take a different example that is counterfactual but easier to use in > invoking the real physiological paralysis, if Thank God Ledge on halfdome > were not actually a solid ledge, but a fragile bridge, or if there had been a > rockfall that left part of it missing and I were blindfolded, or if I were a > prisoner of pirates blindfolded and made to walk the plank, my steps would > land differently than they do when I get out of bed in the morning. > > There I didn’t say what anyone else would do in any circumstance, but did > claim that my own motions have different regimes that are viscerally _very_ > distinct. I’m not sure I can think about whether I would fight for air when > being drowned. It might be atavistic and beyond anything I normally refer to > as “thought”. I certainly have had people claim to me that that is the case. > > Those distinctions may occupy a different plane than the distinction between > reasonableness and dogmatism all in the world of conversation and the social > exchange. > > But I should not speak for others. Only for myself as a spectator. -- ☣ gⅼеɳ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
