Humans can shift between contemplation and participation within their own minds.

Evidence

Some hybrid reaction is needed. We have to be able to do both: to contemplate and participate, to leave and always come back, where we are needed. In Contemplation in a World of Action, Merton holds out the possibility that we might be capable of these movements entirely within our own minds. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 232

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A person’s mode of engaging a surface changes how that surface phenomenologically appears. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 390