Education automates perception-reaction links, blurring the line between passivity and activity

Evidence

Indeed, what is an apprenticeship, an education, a training, if not a process of habituation which is able to automate the linking of a certain perception with a certain motor reaction? From a very young age, our individuation develops through a labour of INCORPORATION which shifts the effort of attention originally required to accomplish certain gestures to an automatic level. … When the letters g-r-e-y ‘impose’ on me today from the outside – condemning my person to passivity according to Condillac’s reasoning – we may equally reverse the argument and say that ‘the cause of the effect produced’ comes from ‘me’, inasmuch as it is me who has learned to read (or play ping-pong, or sense when a tiny tension in the face of my interlocutor is signalling that he has been offended by the word I have just used). — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 372

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘incorporation’ as the habituating labour that turns learned attention into automatic response.
• XREF: The passivity/activity scrambling through habit connects to Frankfurt School critiques of internalized domination and Bourdieu’s habitus. — connects to: Intensive learning physically rewires brain structure and perceptual habits.; Cultural adaptation physically rewires the brain and perception — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2238; Programming perception through technical devices leads to programming behavior — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 210 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The reversal that ‘external imposition’ of salience is actually ‘me’ because I learned to read collapses the inside/outside, spontaneity/determination distinction — exactly the kind of reversal that resists quick summary and reframes how we assign responsibility for attention.

Broader Connections

• Intensive learning physically rewires brain structure and perceptual habits. #expands (0.80)
• Cultural adaptation physically rewires the brain and perception #expands (0.78) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 2238