This means that the more you engage with your world, the richer your history of response will be for helping you respond usefully. This is another way of saying that it is not just important to be active, it is neurologically necessary. We are not outside observers of the world defined by our “essential properties.” Like the whirlpool, we are defined by our interactions; we are defined by our ecology. It is how our brains makes sense of the meaninglessness.
