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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