<Cesar>When the baby moves his limbs, does he reflects to the outer world or is
there completely random information firing from his brain? Does he have prior
activity?</Cesar>
<Teodora>In the beginning there are a lot of nervous reflexes, for example if
they move their head this side, they move this same side  arm up. Many reflexes
that you have as an adult as well. And there is a lot of random movement as well,
but it is not useless movement because at the beginning there is little information
for which there is a reason to act, or plan things. Creating this random movement
actually helps you learn “oops my arm hit something : solid object” or this is how
far I can move my arm. So all this random generated movement at the beginning
which seem a bit useless and chaotic is actually a way of exploring.</Teodora>
<Cesar>But isn’t there like a booting sequence, like computers do to identify the
“hardware” (body)?</Cesar>
<Teodora>Yes, there is a center that originally fires “for no reason”. For example,
for the retina has a ”booting sequence”, before the eyes open in the womb, there is
a random activation of the retina, it fires on itself.
At the stage it is not really vision, it probably looks like noise : the only purpose of
this is telling the brain “there is retina, and this is the structure of the retina”.
The brain learns about the retina because of this self generated action.
Also the body is growing continuously so they don’t just have to learn where their
arms are but they have to update this knowledge continuously because the arm
grows, it becomes longer. At some point their hand is here (short), but than it is
here (medium length), here (long, far away from the shoulder), so it is very gradu-
al, over time, a very long process.</Teodora>
<Cesar>Our perceptive instrument, our body, keeps on changing.
We need to re-learn continuously, or at least adapt. The more open and adaptable
our architecture (cities, buildings, social relations, bodies, brains) the most chance
of survival and thriving.</Cesar>
 
<Raoul>Improvisation is the best thing. It is the most free thing because you react
to other people, in real-time, it doesn’t matter about any script, be completely free,
completely in the role.</Raoul>
<Simone>It is creating a new world.</Simone>