1. Same or Different 2. More or Less 3. Faster or slower 4. Bigger or smaller 5. Forward or Backward 6. Right or Left 7. Up or down 8. Lighter or Darker 9. Rougher or Smoother 10. Easier or Harder 11. Harder or Softer 12. Lighter or Heavier 13. Wider or Narrower 14. More round or more angular 15. Rounder or flatter 16. Higher or Lower 17. Longer or Shorter 18. More or less clear (clear/obscure) 19. More or less simple (simple/complicated) 20. Boring or Interesting 21. Tired or Fresh 22. Loud or quiet 23. Sudden or gradual 24. Old or new 25. Young or Old 26. Warmer or colder 27. Full or empty 28. Together or Separate 29. Differentiated or Undifferentiated 30. Compliant or Defiant 31. Relaxed or Tense 32. Relaxed or Stiff 33. Holding on or letting go 34. Open or closed 35. More or less Dense (Dense or spacious) 36. Blank or filled in 37. Cooperative or resistant 38. More or less alone 39. Resting or Active 40. Still or Moving 41. Visible or Invisible 42. Conscious or Unconscious 43. Aware or Unaware 44. Avowed or Unavowed 45. Actual or Imaginary 46. Home or away 47. Awake or asleep 48. Known or Unknown 49. Meaningful or insignificant 50. Important or unimportant 51. The right way or the wrong way 52. Habitual or non-habitual 53. Richer or Poorer 54. In sickness or in health 55. Yes or no 56. On or off 57. Connected or disconnected 58. Empowered or disempowered 59. State Change vs. Stage Change (from David Booda’s piece on ISTA) 60. Exploration vs. Exploitation 1. (from Todd Hargrove Substack, https://open.substack.com/pub/toddhargrove/p/exploration-and-exploitation?r=1abwb&utm_medium=ios)^122fbe 2. from Allison Gopnik article [[Your Baby Is Smarter Than You Think#^2eb16f]] 61. Image of Achievement vs. Image of Act - from [[Berkeley 7 - Segment 1 - 4 - Discussion and Intro Remarks - DL and CK#^702add]] 62. Work vs. Effort 1. [[Berkeley 7 - Segment 1 - 4 - Discussion and Intro Remarks - DL and CK#^d2b166]] 63. Skin vs. Muscle vs. Bone 64. Supported vs. Unsupported 65. Skeletal Support vs. Muscular Support 66. Self vs. Other 67. Subject vs. Object 68. Hurrying vs. Going Fast ([[Esalen - 1 - Scanning#^1c9e24]]) --- God grant me The power to change the things I can The patience to live with the things I can’t And the wisdom to learn the difference. --- “Information is any difference that makes a difference.” From Bateson, Steps towards and ecology of mind --- Weber-Fechner - Just Noticeable Difference Is measurable --- “From a neo-Piagetian view, the transformation in the first eighteen months of life—giving birth to object relations—is only the first instance of that basic evolutionary activity taken as the fundamental ground of personality development. The infant’s “moving and sensing,” as the basic structure of its personal organization (the reflexes), get “thrown from”; they become an object of attention, the “content” of a newly evolved structure. Rather than being my reflexes, I now have them, and “I” am something other. “I” am that which coordinates or mediates the reflexes, what we mean by “impulses” and “perceptions.” This is the new subjectivity. For the very first time, this creates a world separate from me, the first qualitative transformation in the history of guaranteeing the world its distinct integrity, of having it to relate to, rather than to be embedded in. But this transformation does not take place over a weekend, and it does not take place without cost to the organism, which must suffer what amounts to the loss of itself in the process. The laborious gradualness and personal cost of this transformation can be considered in the context of the two best researched phenomena of this period—the construction of the permanence of the object, and the infant’s protest upon separation from the primary caretaker. From a neo-Piagetian view, both phenomena are easily misunderstood. Excerpt From The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development Robert Kegan --- “So, this will be a very interesting conversation, I have a feeling, because we're dealing with such fundamental issues. For example, is the little bit that I know about the laws of form (book by Spencer Brown, discussed as a central text in the Human Potential Movement) is, is that until you make a distinction or even a mark of some kind, then everything is united. There is no difference between the observer and the observed without a distinction of some sort. Exactly. That is the primacy. And that is the fundamental way that Spencer Brown's perspective differs from traditional Boolean logic is that everything is reduced to this primal act and that act is making a mark, making a distinction, distinguishing this from that or from the perspective of a cell, it would be distinguishing inside from outside or from the perspective of consciousness or higher levels of consciousness, it might be distinguishing day from night or rest from activity or just the different opposites that we cycle through all day long that all have to do with drawing distinctions and with making boundaries.” From New Thinking Allowed Audio Podcast: Autopoiesis and the Laws of Form with Terry Marks-Tarlow, Oct 16, 2025 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031?i=1000732185251&r=715 This material may be protected by copyright.