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Quick aside: I'm currently limping along in daily digest mode, if someone has the authentication to switch it off for me, before Bruce gets back to his emails, that'd be great. > Huw-- > > What notion of activity are you using when you write below: > > "The omission I'm noticing here is that knowing and experiencing is an > activity" ? > > (I include the immediately preceeding paragraph for context) > mike Mental activity. Experiencing is not passive, it is met half way and is actively interpreted (when I get round to it, Husserl is the place to go for this, I believe). Likewise knowing (the mental act of grasping) is an activity too. Wertsch provided a lucid description of this activity with his depiction of pole vaulting (Mind as action -- great book, in my opinion). Let's say we're playing speed chess. I adopt a tactic of thinking in your time: You muse, ponder a bit, make a move then hit the timer. If you happen to have made a move I predicted for, I make the move that I've primed myself for immediately as I've already mentally acted out the operation. Yes, I do see this as a continuum of social activity. I'm enjoying the posts. Huw __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca