Re: [xmca] Operations, mental images and emotions (!)

[Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@rocketmail.com>]

Martin

There are many factors involved in this article .

In 3.5 of L's book , there's an example of the activity of 'driving' . Please read it again . First when you concentrate on changing gears , as it is conscious , it can be considered moment of activity . But when you change this goal , and think of speeding the car so that you might reach the destination , you no longer think of the changing of the gears . You AUTOMATICALLY  do it and it is removed from your consciousness as a goal . And please do remember that reified ideals are no longer ideal and that without 'ideality' you cannot involve in a activity cycle or generally in the FLOW of activities which L prefers to call it the 'sum total' of life itself . 

The routinized autonomic act of reproduction of generations need not to be activated / motivated generally . 

Finished products are there all the time ; at one certain point , they begin to reach the status of being an object to an activity ; while before being reified , all living material spiritual condition of an activity were true about them . Now , everything is extinct . 

I wonder if I can call it a reverse activity . At its normal state , if it is natural or social , is to be discussed . Though exhaustion prevails .  

I mean some activity was stopped because of the many factors involved in the situation and in relation to two different locations mentioned in the article . 

The NEED arose as to find ways to remove the hindrances and obstacles in the way of 'productivity' . 

This need motivated and now is motivating those involved to plan for actions ; actions , according to the article , are under way .

Conditions are also weighed down so that they will see if there are hopes for realization of the goals of the actions . 

THIS IS THE ACTIVITY OF REACHING LOW/HIGH RATE OF, RELATIVE / ABSOLUTE (NORMAL / PERFECT) FERTILITY . 

Best
Haydi


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 From: Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> 
Sent: Monday, 15 April 2013, 2:03:02
Subject: Re: [xmca] Operations, mental images and emotions (!)
 


How's this for a neat example of the role of inorganic and organic cycles in the human activity/project of reproduction!


This from ethnography with the Abelam, who avoid sexual activity during the giant yam-growing season because it would upset the yams. The consequence is that no babies are born May through July.


(I assume we can all agree that having a baby is a collaborative activity/project, motivated by human needs and involving various goal-directed actions? Or is this too base and animalistic an analysis?)


Martin


[cid:9559E85F-F2FC-4E6C-8BD4-7A77B5FB095C]

Condon, R. G., & Scaglion, R. (1982). The ecology of human birth seasonally. Human Ecology, 10(4), 495-511. doi:10.1007/BF01531169





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