Title: thepopupschool / Action Tresholds

Question: What are action protocols described as in relation to the external world?
Answer: Internal metabolic signatures of the external world.

Question: What concept is introduced in the "Action Thresholds" article?
Answer: Action thresholds.

Question: What is happening among the internal relations (habitas) of entities and beings in any given moment?
Answer: Trillions upon trillions of action protocols operating at different spatial and temporal scales.

Question: What two actions are part of the "two-step dance" of sense-making?
Answer: Actions at one scale unfold new external relations, while actions at another scale infold new action protocols.

Question: How do actions contribute to the whole?
Answer: Most contribute to the background potential state, while only the few, stronger and coordinated actions reach above a threshold.

Question: What happens when actions reach above a threshold?
Answer: Activities at the deeper level become realized as action-taken at the higher scale.

Question: What can a realized action be?
Answer: Merely consciousness of something--- like a shift in mood, or worrisome thought--- or can be a movement that makes a sound or propels the animal.

Question: What does the new awareness, thought, sound making or movement constitute?
Answer: The new context at the apex of the sense-making up-hierarchy, a context that in turn creates a global update “headed back down”.

Question: What happens below a certain threshold?
Answer: The perceptual event is not something the child experiences but susbsists as latent potential in the codex of the action potentials.

Question: What do the sum total of action protocols compose?
Answer: Complex potential states.

Question: How can we think of the potential state?
Answer: As “subsisting” on one side of an event horizon, and the actual realized state as existing on the other side of it.

Question: What is the potential state described as?
Answer: A stream brimming with pluripotentiality.

Question: According to William E. Connolly, what happens to potentials that are not selected?
Answer: Those not selected are in a sense “left behind,” but they are not eliminated, and remain available for future vibrations.

Question: What does this pluripotentiality constitute?
Answer: The numinous causal field.

Question: What would correctly situate the body within the field of possibility and its role as a causal agent?
Answer: A New Theory of the Body.

Question: Why is there a "sense-making crisis" today?
Answer: Because we are separated from our body and nature --- the lving ground and origin of all sense-fullness.