Proprioception and Homeostasis

As an awareness of motor processes, Proprioception is best examined in the context of motile activity.  Therein, under normal circumstances, like one's clothing, it is absorbed into the background of activity, becoming discernible only in the event of a disruption.  Thus, the primary function of Proprioception is revealed on the occasion of e. g. stumbling while walking--as homeostatic, i. e. as restoring physiological balance.  In other words, it is like the preferred setting on a thermostat--a normative ideal that becomes a descriptive representation only upon satisfaction.  Thus, since that satisfaction has usually been achieved with the body in an immobile position, the Proprioceptive process is easily overlooked by the philosophical tradition in which the sedentary observer is the paradigmatic subject.