Voluminosity Crystalizing the Vital Dimension of Beingness

(a) The functional role of the visceral “inbound” body seems to be tacit one hidden in the shade. But it actually overshadows all the sensory action on the body wall in a special way that we will come to later. Its “securely” positioned physical-organic circuits perform in unison their appointed roles in a mute, seemingly subservient but in reality basic fashion. This yields the platform to the individual’s sensorial activities and experimental contacts with its environment, leaving to them the gathering and transmission of data crucial for interactive symbiosis with other individuals “out there” and for negotiating forces “out there” that have to be taken seriously into account as the bodily agent formulates its directives.