Maybe some of you have had the opportunity to give food to a baby and perhaps have had the experience-inperiencia surprising to see that there comes a time when he or she stretches out his hand to take the spoon. What is surprising, is that even was the first time that the child makes the gesture of taking the spoon, making properly, ie by handle, then take the food concave side, lifts the spoon filled with "potato" and even more surprisingly, succeeds the complex movement of it towards the mouth. Sure, the first few times is frustrated because the food turns almost at destination. What relationship can have such a familiar image, with the concepts we have discussed so far such as ontogeny, structural coupling, phenomena sensorimotrices, emotion, perception and meaning?
Consider two statements, one of Konrad Lorenz: "To live is to learn" and one of Francisco Varela, "The perception is action, perceptually guided."
K. Lorenz, emphasizes the fact of being alive having experiences, is itself an act of learning. For example, today I watched a father who fell from a taxi was carrying a child about two years. Once they had fallen, the boy stretched out his arm and pushed the door taxi to close. How the child came to acquire such learning? "Living" says Lorenz. And the question that logically follows is: "How is that living is learning?
F. Varela says, because of perceived and that perception (visual in this case) is an action, except that several times, before closing the door of the taxi by himself, has been perceptually guided action. Seeing his father shut the door, the child was "as if" he was closing. Sensorimotrices phenomena that always accompany the collection, dealing with "make sense" NNW perceived action. This phenomenon, perception and action is what makes us move when we go to the circus to see acrobats and trapeze artists. To add color, I'm falling Oh!, Artists transport us magically into place. For us viewers, it's as if we were falling, although we are very firm in our seats. Similarly, a teacher sit still while talking to his students at the rotation of the earth, transmits to his students that when rotating, the Earth does not move. Go boredom!
The boy, who seems taken first spoon to eat, just seems, he has already taken many times before, seeing the act of being fed. Perceiving
do and doing learn.
