**Links to**: [[Gravity]], [[Disorientation]] [[Bias]], [[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]], [[Gravity]], [[Kant]]. ### [[Postulate]]: Gravity is, in many ways, just as important and even more prominent than left/right orientation(s). See: [[Disorientation]] and [[Gravity]]. If we orient ourselves by way of patterns such as gravity, then what of other degrees of freedom? A pattern most basic is our given physiological symmetry (see: [[All things mirrored]]), and the fact that we can turn left or right (think of this as abstractly as possible, see also: [[Line]]). Change, herein, is our condition ([[Choice]] herein is change). Orientation is the _embeddedness_ within this unavoidable change. Try as we may, it is very difficult to imagine oneself as lacking this very basic sense of orientation.^[Though some altered states elicit this.] Kant asks us how we could possibly “procure sense and significance for our concepts”^[“_Was heisst: Sich im Denken orientiren?_”, October 1786, _Berlinische Monatrschrift_ VIII.] without an intuition, which, “ultimately must always be an example from some possible experience” (ibid.). _Some possible experience_, is what we are after. The fact that *it* does not have an example, and that _it_ remains potentially impossible, in its speculative balancing act of _possibility_, tells us precisely what we need to know: some concepts _seem_ conceptually precise because they are not appended to representations of possible experiences. Unbalanced imprecision is fruitful. %% ### What does it mean to think about orientation? In his famous ... Kant... left and right. In psych. studies it is shown that... so we end up or bottom out (one of the preferred metaphors of this project) at _linearity_. Mike levin mentions serotonin playing a role, among other things, in determining left and right assymmetries in development. https://karger.com/dne/article-abstract/28/3/171/107292/Of-Minds-and-Embryos-Left-Right-Asymmetry-and-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext ### Linearity Does continuity in terms of thought (self-sensing: prediction, narrative coherence, etc.) or even corporeal survival imply linearity? If we think in terms of a, b, and c, then yes. If we think in terms of .... then, there are more questions. (see also [[Linearity]], [[Non-linearity]]). %% ### Footnotes