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                 %MULTIPLE REFLEXIVE CONSIDERATIONS 880323

     Jack has just done something which causes his friends
to regard him as rather strange, hard to understand, maybe
not trustworthy.

     How Jack's friends regard Jack flows from both Jack's
action  and  from  what his friends are  like.    As  they
reflect upon Jack's actions, Jack may reflect upon the way
in  which  his friends'  behaviors reflect upon  how  they
reflect upon his actions.   Jack may regard the actions of
his  friends as strange,  hard to understand,   maybe  not
trustworthy.  As Jack reflects upon his friends' behaviors
in response to his actions,  Jack is engaged in  reflexive
behavior; i.e., considerations pointing back to himself.

     Jack's  friends may become aware of Jack's  reflexive
considerations  which cast doubt upon the worth  of  their
friendship.    As  they consider whether or not to respect
Jack's considerations,  they themselves engage in thoughts
which have to do with  whether or not  their judgments and
attitudes  toward Jack are justified.   Thus  they  become
engaged   in  reflexive  considerations  which  point back
toward themselves.

     Virtually  all human interactions involves  continual
reconsideration  of  the  question of whether  or  not  to
continue  to be responsive to communications  of  specific
other  persons.   Each person's judgments which flow  from
such  considerations are ultimately  reflexive,   pointing
back  to  the  person making the  judgment,   as  much  as
referring to  the other persons who have been  involved in
the  interactions.   Such reflexive  considerations  often
involve responses to  responses  many times over  in  very
brief  periods  of  time.    Often  the  whole  stream  of
responses  are  entirely  non-verbal  and  do  not  entail
conscious verbal thought.  Such a sequence of responses is
not  under  the  control of consciously directed  thought;
thus  it is not an expression  of  the logic  of  verbally
articulated ideals, values, principles, etc.

     Multiple  reflexive  considerations  flow  under  the
direction of promptings which are not necessarily logical,
reasonable,  principled, or formal in character.  For such
considerations  to be integrative in character,  they must
occur  within contexts which are perversely integrative in
character,   rather  than  perversely  disintegrative   in
character.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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