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Full Idea
You do not ride a bicycle just by moving your body in a certain way. You have to be on the bicycle to move in the right sort of way
Gist of Idea
Bicycle riding is not just bodily movement - you also have to be on the bicycle
Source
Rowland Stout (Action [2005], 9 'Are body')
Book Ref
Stout,Rowland: 'Action' [Acumen 2005], p.145
A Reaction
My favourite philosophical ideas are simple and conclusive. He also observes that walking involves the ground being walked on. In complex actions 'feedback' with the environment is involved.
| 4169 | Every true act of will is also at once and without exception a movement of the body [Schopenhauer] |
| 6167 | Action is bodily movement caused by intentional states [Rowlands] |
| 20081 | Bicycle riding is not just bodily movement - you also have to be on the bicycle [Stout,R] |
| 20019 | Maybe bodily movements are not actions, but only part of an agent's action of moving [Wilson/Schpall] |
| 20021 | Is the action the arm movement, the whole causal process, or just the trying to do it? [Wilson/Schpall] |