Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Synkinesis

I have previously been suggesting that Reflection is essentially kinaesthetic. A more accurate term is 'synkinetic', from my neologic 'synkinesis', meaning 'unity of motions'. That any human is naturally synkinetic is obvious from its equilibral system, e. g. of the inner ear, as well as from its native ability to coordinate its motions. As a human develops, so to does its synkinetic capacitites. So, for example, in a simple experience of avoiding a puddle while walking, visual processes are plainly coordinated with ambulatory ones. Thus, in general, perceptual processes are primarily components of synkinesis, a point which has traditionally eluded philosophers who have ignored 'looking at', 'listening to', and 'touching', in favor of 'seeing', 'hearing', and 'feeling', in classifying the 'senses' as merely receptive, and even incorporeal, functions. (If Kant had lived long enough, he might have overridden his 'Transcendental Unity of Apperception' with a 'Synthetic Unity of Kinesis', as the true character of 'a priori' corporeal experience.) Furthermore, our synkinetic processes have a palpable effect on physical activity, as for example, when we recover balance. Thus, synkinesis functions fundamentally as a homeostatic process, again, a point easily missed by theories that construe the senses as mere receivers of information. So, anyone having to pause to consider this assertion is thereby also exemplifying it. Accordingly, Reflection, and Propriation, in general, serves a homeostatic function in the Individual.

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