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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 ________________________________ 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 __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca