In Maturana’s terms, the environment triggered the frog to respond; the response was a manifestation of the frog’s altered structure.

... if your responses are determined by your structure, and if your structure is developed in your past, then at any given moment you are doing only and exactly what your past allows. This gave me a biological basis for compassion and respect for myself and others.

We are affected by the bodies of others.

When you speak, you are literally joining two worlds.

When you make a fantasy affirmation and declaration, you assume that it will happen by itself.