There seems to be additionally meaning in speaking about new discovery.
If you count various joint like the one of each toe you get a high dimensional space of possible positions and therefore a lot of different positions.
On the other hand you have somatic paradigms where movement exploration also leads people to discover new dimensions to distinguish different movement and body positions in a way they couldn’t previously.
The claim about counting joints is a rather trivial one while the somatic claim is a nontrivial one which people who haven’t engaged in somatic exploration might not find convincing.
Being to vague to distinguish the two claims seems problematic to me.
Yes, the degrees of freedom of nerve and muscle activation greatly exceed the degrees of freedom of the joints. In yoga, martial arts, ballet, and similar activites, it is not enough to merely achieve the right geometry of the posture and movement The inner work that produces the outer form is where the real activity happens.
There seems to be additionally meaning in speaking about new discovery.
If you count various joint like the one of each toe you get a high dimensional space of possible positions and therefore a lot of different positions.
On the other hand you have somatic paradigms where movement exploration also leads people to discover new dimensions to distinguish different movement and body positions in a way they couldn’t previously.
The claim about counting joints is a rather trivial one while the somatic claim is a nontrivial one which people who haven’t engaged in somatic exploration might not find convincing.
Being to vague to distinguish the two claims seems problematic to me.
Yes, the degrees of freedom of nerve and muscle activation greatly exceed the degrees of freedom of the joints. In yoga, martial arts, ballet, and similar activites, it is not enough to merely achieve the right geometry of the posture and movement The inner work that produces the outer form is where the real activity happens.