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  %CONSEQUENCE CAUSE EFFECT ACTION SYMBOLIC MEANING+950818
 %THEORY PHYSICAL INTERACTION COMMUNICATION CONTEXT 950818

     The  consequences of any action-communication depends
upon  the  context within which  the  action-communication
occurs.

     On  the one hand there are the "natural laws"   which
"determine"   what the consequences of a physical act are;
what follows due to cause and effect is  "governed" by the
objective "laws" of physics, chemistry, biology, etc.

     On the other hand there are the "natural patterns" of
reflexive  human   relationships   in   which   contextual
symbolic-perceptual   meanings/significances  play   major
roles.

     How  people react to a symbolic-action  depends  upon
the context within which the symbolic-action occurs.  Many
actions which  are not engaged in for symbolic purposes---
yet even so are likely to carry with them symbolic meaning
to  many  of the people who perceive the  action  and  its
natural  consequences.   What meaning is perceived is  not
determined  by  the  persons who are responsible  for  the
action---for  they  may  not have  intended  any  symbolic
meaning; yet symbolic meaning is perceived. Even when some
symbolic meaning is intended,  the persons responsible for
the  symbolic action  do not have control of what symbolic
meaning  will  be  perceived---regardless of  whether  the
action  was regarded as primarily symbolic,  as in  verbal
actions;    or  the  action  was  regarded  primarily   as
practical,  as in building a new house for  people to live
in; in the troubled Eastern Mediterranean region.

     The consequences of any action which may  communicate
symbolic meaning flow from the context within which people
perceive the action and its natural consequences---and how
people  assign  meanings to the action/consequences  which
engender symbolic consequences.

     People who pretend that the symbolic consequences are
governed  by  "nothing more"  than  natural  consequential
"laws"   which  we do  not  yet  understand;  are  playing
collusive games of mutual self deception---suggesting that
the day  will come when  we  can understand  such  complex
interactions with sufficient accuracy so  as to be able to
predict,   manipulate  and  control  all  aspects  of  the
interactions   in  much  the  same  way  as  humans   have
manipulated inter-planetary space-ships.   The evidence of
chaotic  physical processes clearly  indicates that  there
will always be limits to how fully it will  be possible to
analyze,   understand,   predict, manipulate  and  control
physical    systems    of   which   we    ourselves    are
significant/meaningful parts.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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