C.O.H.

You can, therefore, see the world in a disintegrated aspect, you take separate things and events Seriously, imagining that these really do exist When activated, they have the same kind of existence as an individual's interpretation of the Rorschach plot They're what you make out of In fact, our physical world is a system of inseparable differences Everything exists with everything else But we contrive not to notice that Because what we notice is what is noteworthy And we notice it in terms of notations Numbers, words, images What is notable, noteworthy, notated, noticed Is what appears to us to be significant, and the rest is ignored as insignificant And as a result of that, we select from the total input that goes to our senses only a very small fraction And this causes us to believe that we are separately isolated by the boundary of the epidermis of the rest of the World You see, this is also the mechanism involved in not noticing that black and white go together Not noticing that every inside has an outside What goes on inside your skin is inseparable from what goes on outside your skin You see that, for example, in the science of ecology One learns that a human being is not an organism in an environment, but is an organism-environment That is to say, a unified field of behavior If you describe carefully the behavior of any organism, you cannot do so without at the same time describing The behavior of the environment And by that you know that you've got a new entity of study The organism is not the puppet of the environment The organism is not the puppet of the environment Being pushed around by it, being pushed around by it Nor, on the other hand, is the environment the puppet of the organism Being pushed around by the organism The relationship between them The relationship between them is, to use John Dewey's word, transactional Transaction being a situation like buying and selling, in which there is no buying unless somebody sells, and no Selling unless somebody buys