A place is
created, out
further than
our limbs, when
we participate
incertain
activities.
Consider a
construction
worker coming
to his or her
job in the
morning. She
punches in and
grabs her tools
and heads for the
site.
Then when she
begins to hammer
in some nails
she has to
concenterate on
where the end of
the hammer is and
where the force
needs to be
exerted. As the
minutes pass the
process becomes
unconscious. Her
limbs have been
extended out
further than the
tips of her
fingers. It is as
if the hammer
becomes a piece
of a longer arm. Where is this new
location, in here
mind or in
reality? There are many
examples: Learning to drive
a bike or auto,
the person tilts
or swerves until
his or her mind
is in the new
space and it all
goes as smoothly
as walking. Many sports games
use some sort of
ball that has to
go to some
location. Is this
location an
extension of
perceptional
space? For that matter,
this space that
we occupy and
consider real,
could it be an
artificial space
also? We adapt to the
length of our
arms or legs as
we grow and come
to consider these
lengths and
locations as the
real ones. Many electronic
devices allow us
to extent this
perception of
place out beyond
distances that
our senses can. When in a phone
conversation with
someone on the
other side of the
world, where
would you be. Is there really
some place that
you both meet? |
