Control of the body

After birth, the Body-Entity
of the infant must quickly change the nervous system and metabolism to air breathing and food intake via the mouth.

For the Experience-Entity, the most intense Phase in life begins now. She begins to perceive her body, its senses and all other body receptors and to understand their meaning by means of ideas that are brought to him via emotions and by conceptions of related ideas, of his Body-Entity.

The movements of the body caused by the reflexes and the signals of responding body receptors are summarized by the Body-Entity  and sent to its Experience-Entity. The urge for knowledge of the Experience-Entity leads her to understand gradually the perceived ideas about the movements of the body. She can imagine the ideas better and better, and through the better and better imagination or visualisation, she can better transmit her target idea to the Body-Entity as an expression of will, which then is carried out by the Body-Entity. The desired movement has been achieved.

The constant repetitions of the reflexes and their manifold variations help to expand the understanding of the body and its freedoms of acting. At some point, the Experience-Entity has learned how to consciously and purposefully perform movements. She now has full control over the movements of the body.

All these diverse movements, which were deliberately executed, are stored in the neuron network. This gives the Experience-Entity a large diverse supply of movement options in order to strive for its increasingly complex goals.

In this learning process, the Experience-Entity gets rudimentary knowledge of many Ur-Ideas that are necessary to understand the body and its degrees of freedom:

• The idea of separate existence.
• The idea of other existences.
• The idea of communicating with others.
• The idea of three-dimensional space.
• The idea of movement in space.
• The idea of a complex structure of a body in space.
• The idea of communicating with others through body movements.
• The idea of goal tracking through want.
• The idea of goal tracking by body movements.
• The idea of reward through positive emotions.
• The idea of negative emotions and to avoid them.
• The idea of relationships with others.

This is certainly only a short list of the original ideas that are brought closer to the consciousness of the Experience-Entity in order to be able to lead an active life with the body. The level of consciousness of the Experience-Entity about these Ur-Ideas may not go far beyond an emotional understanding. It will not go as far as my intellectual descriptions with words suggests.

The Experience-Entity has now learned which imagination it must send to the Body-Entity, so that it precisely performs the variation of previously experienced and therefore stored movement patterns that comes closest to the desired goal imagination.

The exploration of possibilities by the body does not mean that the Experience-Entity already has a consciousness that this body, which it can control, belongs to it. I think that this understanding will only become established over the years. For the infant, the body is primarily a way to get good emotions and a way to get rid of negative emotions.

In this Phase, the infant learns which of his reactions to a malaise, such as hunger, thirst or loneliness, indulges the corresponding reactions of his caregivers. Her fundamental behaviours on how to realize her goals are here established.

If parents make it too easy for children, then the variety of different behavioral options will not expand greatly. If parents make it too difficult for their children, their closeness to the creator will suffer. Their motivation for further efforts will be reduced, because they all do obviously not help. Waiting for better times instead of active life can be the result. Permanent rebellion is also possible to a very large extent.

As always in life, the search for a healthy middle way is the solution to many problems.

If the infants can move independently through space, then their path is open to explore the whole universe, if their urge to explore has not already been occupied by experiences with negative emotions.

Parents have a great responsibility. Children do not automatically become independent, strong and intelligent adults. Their existing start potential can be promoted or suppressed by their caregivers.