In the last post I spoke of three major themes without tying them together: cellular consciousness, system organization, and state dependent learning. I also paired it with a soundtrack containing inquiries and information about movement of the mouth, jaw, and eyes.
Information percolates through the layers. Causal connections (this shifts that affects that...) becomes networked non-linearly. I have been holding the question of relationship between these layers of language in my felt sense of body and self.
On every level, biology is behaving itself. Looking at our behavior at a cellular level helps identify and organize basic archetypal sensory-motor processes which we recapitulate in diverse and unique expressions - as ourselves.
The relationship of inner space and outer space separated across a membrane is fundamental to the human experience. Looking at how amoebas and bacteria interact with their environment can understand the movement of life and nature's genius for systemic efficiency.
Bacteria will move toward nourishment consistently and withdraw sharply from an adverse stimuli (ie: toxin / needle). These are its two basic choices as an organized center relative to everything 'other'. How it changes its shape to flow towards or away determines its success and survival as an organism.
Because most of our membrane has become stronger and more dense to contain our size, metabolic nourishment (ie: food) intake in the human organism is localized in the head along with the chemorecoptors of taste and smell, vibration sensing membranes of the ears (is well as balance in the labyrinthine complex of the inner ear with its otoliths) , photoreceptors of the eyes, and dense sensory motor innervation in the lips, tongue, jaw and neck. This allows for orienting as while an amoeba is omnidirectional, the animal is differentiated top and bottom, front and back.
Working with movement of the head, eyes, mouth, jaw, and tongue can allow us to access the patterning of how our vast multicellular organism makes decisions. Providing deep impulses and organizing how we relate with our environment.
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