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"A poem is an activity, seeking to become itself. All behavior (or activity as I prefer to say: see _Speculative Instruments_ pp. 118-22) or organisms is organic. But, of course it must be _activity_. When we fall downstairs that is not activity; going up them is. "
-- I.A. Richards #PoetriesAndSciences pp. 108-109

This line, and maybe a similar on somewhere else helps fill out my aversion to the word _behavior.. Falling down the steps if behavior, going up them is activity.. 'behavior' for the physics-level, 'activity' for biology levels and up..

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"...I find myself deeply persuarded that the analogies that help most here are biological, organic, more specifically, embryological."

"The over-all problem of the embryo was long ago described by the Psalmist--- in the course of giving his own answer:

 
 Thine eyes did see my substance
    yet being unperfect;
 And in they book were all my members written;
 Which day by day were fashioned:
 When as yet there was none of them.

'When as yet there was none of them,' how do they know what to become next in the course of becoming what in the end they have to be? That is the problem of the embryo."

--- I.A. Richards Poetries And Sciences pp. 107-108

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