Shifting Allegiances
Collaborative work illuminates how our attention subtly depends on anticipating others’ responses, mirroring recognition and reshaping expectations in real time. This isn't a momentary pause in action but an ongoing negotiation, suggesting agency exists less as isolated will than as participation within dynamic systems—a process of becoming rather than settled states. Considering this, direct perception offers only partial access to shared reality; existence unfolds through progressive extension built on incomplete understandings and mutual adjustment.