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Schüll refers to a concept called perfect contingency in the literature of child development, which names a situation of “complete alignment between a given action and the external response to that action, in which distinctions between the two collapse.” (I find it confusing to call this perfect contingency because it seems rather the complete absence of contingency.)
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
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