"We are sentient agents or subjects that know by moving and anticipating the sensible effects of movement (Serrington, 1906; Bernstein, 1967; Gibson, 1979), and we share the mental processes of this agency intersubjectively from birth, engaging in cooperative actions and discovering new conscious experiences with mutually confirmed feelings (Trevarthen, 1998a: Trevarthen and Reddy, 2007). Infants experience being with other persons as rich in lively purposes and emotions. They search for agreement about qualities of experience, and they exhibit an endless curiosity about possibilities of action and discovery, and how to negotiate about them. Most importantly, we communicate with them not just in space, but in time by intimate coordination with matching rhythms of movement (Beebe et al., 1979, 1985, 2010; Stern, 1974, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2010; Stern et al., 1977, 1985).
We move with other beings in the "musicality" of volatile feelings (Malloch & Trevarthen, 2009a; Panksepp & Trevarthen, 2009).
Moving selves regulate contact with one another by emotive "vitality dynamics" (Stern, 2010) in what Stein Braten (2009) calls "felt immediacy", with emotions that define both direct appreciation of self and other, and appraisal of the liking or disliking of objects that are attended to.
Persons can be aware of one another in so many ways, with differing degrees of intimacy and sincerity, whether they are intending to cooperate or compete in practical activity, commerce, or politics or simply experiencing feelings of comfort or danger in one another's presence (Smith, 1759, 1776).
I distinguish aesthetic emotions, by which an individual appraises the forms and actions of agents and objects in relation to his or her person, sensing many degrees of imaginative harmony and value, from moral emotions that instantly detect the force and tone of expressive behaviors passing between the self and other persons and that determine person's liking for one another, as well as influencing the strength and quality of their future (present unfolding_feedback_bonding_ *) attachments (Dissanayake, 2000; Trevarthen, 2009a, 2011a). "
from chapter 4 "the generation of human meaning: how shared experience grows in infancy" by Colwyn Trevarthen
in Axel Seemann (ed.)
* words in place of "future" suggested by Catarina
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