16 Of Perception and Action

Perception and action are essential complementary aspects of life. Without your ability to perceive, you could never have discovered your spontaneous, self-organized intrinsic dynamics in the first place. Your agency, sentience, or self-awareness could not have emerged. Without action, you would have had neither ways nor means to respond to and modify your perception, no way to direct your intrinsic dynamics towards ends. Your agency would have had no way to develop, function, adapt and evolve. The complementary nature of perception~action is the foundation of human intelligence, a complementary dance of your body and brain~mind directed and driven by the very perception~action processes they engender.