“You say: ‘But I’m feeling!’ — and I say: yes, that too is information in motion.”
— ExNTER Reflections
🧠 The Human as an Information Machine
From a systems and NLP perspective, the human being is fundamentally a biological information processor — a self-organizing machine that digests data from both the outer world and the inner field.
Every perception — visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, or gustatory — is a coded transmission of information through the nervous system.
We are, as cybernetician Gregory Bateson described, “organisms embedded in a recursive ecology of mind.”
Information, in this model, is not what is stored but what creates difference — a flow that changes the state of the system.
Your body is not the vessel that carries consciousness; it is the hardware that translates raw energetic input into sensory and linguistic representations.
Through this lens, emotion, feeling, and intuition are not opposites of logic — they are logic expressed through the kinesthetic channel.
⚙️ Kinesthetic Science: Feeling as Information
In NLP, kinesthetic representation is one of the five fundamental representational systems (VAKOG).
But at the master-practitioner level, we stop treating “K” as merely touch or bodily awareness — and recognize it as a processing modality of energy-coded data.
When you say “I feel anxious,” you are reporting an internal sensory pattern: changes in muscular tension, heart rhythm, temperature, micro-vibration.
Each of those signals is a feedback code — the nervous system’s way of communicating its interpretation of the current environment.
The feeling is not separate from cognition; it is cognition, rendered through the body’s neuromuscular syntax.
This concept aligns with the work of Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch in The Embodied Mind (1991), who proposed that cognition arises through sensorimotor coupling — perception as active bodily participation in meaning.
In simpler NLP terms:
“The kinesthetic channel is the processor of embodied information — it is how the unconscious mind speaks before language arrives.”
🪶 Perception as Digestive Process
Think of perception as metabolism.
Just as the stomach transforms nutrients into biochemistry, the mind transforms impressions into meaning.
Every thought, sound, or sight you encounter is first ingested by the sensory organs, broken down into neural codes, assimilated into reference frames, and stored as semantic structures.
In this sense, you are digesting the world continuously — through eyes, ears, skin, breath, and proprioception.
When NLP practitioners talk about “calibration,” we are really describing the quality of internal digestion: how effectively a person processes the data of experience without distortion.
Some people over-chew their thoughts (analysis paralysis); others swallow sensations whole (impulsivity).
Mastery is balance — the ability to metabolize quantity and quality of information through sensory precision.
🔍 Information Quality vs. Quantity
As in any machine, efficiency matters.
A person overwhelmed by stimuli (“too much information”) enters cognitive overload — their reticular activating system (RAS) loses filtration power.
The NLP art of state management teaches us to control the aperture of perception: to decide what data enters consciousness and what remains peripheral.
Information has quantity (how much input) and quality (how coherent, relevant, and congruent it is).
Our neurology measures both — just as a computer differentiates between signal and noise.
The “quality” of experience is thus not emotional in the soft sense, but informational in the precise sense.
🧩 The NLP Lens: Human as Bio-Cybernetic Feedback Loop
At its core, NLP assumes that the map is not the territory (Korzybski, 1933).
This means the human mind doesn’t perceive reality directly — it constructs it through representational filters, state, beliefs, and language patterns.
Through this filter, we can model the human as a feedback system:
- Input: sensory data (VAKOG)
- Processing: neurological and linguistic coding
- Output: behavior, emotion, physiology
- Feedback: results that modify future perception
Every feeling, every gesture, every inner voice is a data point in this loop.
The NLP Master’s work is to become conscious of the process — to watch the machine as it runs, and to reprogram its filters deliberately.
🔬 Scientific Anchors
- Gregory Bateson (1972) — Steps to an Ecology of Mind: perception as recursive information flow.
- Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, & Eleanor Rosch (1991) — The Embodied Mind: cognition as sensorimotor enactment.
- Antonio Damasio (1994) — Descartes’ Error: emotions as integral components of reasoning.
- Andy Clark (2013) — Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science: predictive processing as bodily simulation.
- Hubert Dreyfus (1992) — What Computers Still Can’t Do: distinction between computation and embodied know-how.
🧭 ExNTER Perspective
From the ExNTER point of view, the machine is sacred — not because it is mechanical, but because it is precise.
Every signal in the body is a line of code written by evolution, interpreted through awareness, and translated by language.
When we understand that feeling is not chaos but computation — that intuition is not mystery but refined pattern recognition —
we transcend the myth of division between the body that feels and the mind that knows.
The human is both: the sensor and the processor, the pulse and the algorithm, the quantum of life that decodes itself through motion.
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