When We Awaken Movements the Individual Has Yet to Discover

Trust, belonging, and improvisation: transcending our ways of Being through what emerges Between Us

The Artistic Swimmer and What She Could Not Yet Perceive

Imagine that you are an artistic swimmer. Alone, you know your choreography: you dive, turn, and return to the surface at precisely the expected moment. Your body anticipates gestures you have repeated hundreds of times.

Now you begin training with other athletes. One teammate moves closer. Another subtly changes her position. You must recognize distances, timing, and trajectories that previously did not matter.

What you knew how to Do alone is no longer enough to perform the movement emerging between you.

But the difficulty contains a possibility: perhaps the encounter awakens perceptions that your individual repertoire had not yet discovered. This does not happen automatically. It also depends on the conditions under which the unknown appears.

Trust to Experiment, Belonging to Change

What if every mistake brought humiliation? Perhaps you would repeat only the safest movement. Now imagine teammates who allow you to ask questions, make corrections, and begin again. You can try something different without fearing exclusion from the group.

Amy Edmondson investigated psychological safety as a condition associated with learning in teams. This does not mean that acceptance inevitably produces innovation; it means that the risk of making mistakes can be experienced differently.

We need trust to experiment with what we do not yet know how to Do, and belonging to move beyond the ways of Being we already know.

Transcending our ways of Being does not mean erasing the past or dissolving the individual. It means allowing belonging to survive transformation.

During Change, What Are We Still Unable to See?

In BrainLatam's article about Hutcheon's 150 seconds, we encounter a methodological warning: observing only the before and after may conceal the transition itself. Hutcheon and colleagues recorded relationships between EEG and oxygenation during an experimental hypoxia condition that differed from those observed after relative stabilization.

The study does not demonstrate increased creativity through hypoxia. Nor does it justify seeking better brain performance by altering oxygenation.

Our question is different: what happens while someone still does not know how to perform the movement they are learning?

Uncertainty may encourage exploration and learning when support is available; under threat or overload, it may restrict them. We need to investigate transitions without romanticizing suffering.

Control Emerges Between Us

Imagine a flock of birds. One changes its trajectory, others adjust their distances, and the collective organization transforms. In some systems, patterns emerge from local interactions without a commander determining every movement.

In the pool, one athlete notices a misalignment. Another responds. The first must adjust again. Part of the regulation occurs within the relationship.

This does not mean an absence of leadership, planning, or responsibility. It means that initiative can circulate and that whoever leads must also respond to what unfolds.

Control within a Jiwasa collective may emerge Between Us, provided its members retain the ability to perceive, correct, and transform their shared direction.

The Horse Is Not a Tool of the Rider

Approaching an obstacle, you prepare your posture. The horse encounters the terrain through its own perceptual and motor capabilities. It adjusts its rhythm; you shift your balance; that response changes the animal's movement again.

Biomechanical research identifies coordination between horse and rider, but synchronization does not prove unified intention or consciousness.

The horse remains a horse; the rider remains a rider. Their shared movement depends on a relationship, not the elimination of their differences. Its quality also depends on respecting the animal's limits and welfare.

Improvisation Transforms Preparation

Imagine two musicians. You prepare a note; the other introduces a pause. Your hand can follow the plan or recognize the silence and offer another response.

Improvising does not mean being unfamiliar with the chords. It means using what has been learned to discover possibilities that were not anticipated.

Within the Completeness of Movement hypothesis, mobilization, perception, gesture, feedback, meaning, and transition do not require executing everything that was prepared. Interrupting a response may complete its transformation.

Research on collective improvisation shows that shared intentions can emerge during the activity itself. Yet improvisation does not guarantee reciprocity: it is also possible to improvise under rigid command.

Feelings Also Encounter New Possibilities

You know your musical part, but you fear making a mistake. During rehearsal, someone acknowledges your hesitation and offers support. The note remains the same, but anticipation may shift from fear toward trust.

Research on joint music-making considers coordination, expectation, and emotional experiences. It does not demonstrate that participants experience identical emotions.

Perhaps We can also expand the repertoire of feelings that each individual is able to experience. Belonging need not mean feeling the same thing: it may mean having room to feel differently while continuing to create together.

The Wright Brothers and the Reality That Changes

Imagine defending a solution with conviction. Your interlocutor supports another. What if you had to exchange positions?

David McCullough describes intense debates between Wilbur and Orville Wright, sometimes ending with each brother defending the position previously held by the other. This is not proof of a universally applied formal method, but it illustrates flexibility of perspective.

I can defend one aspect and perceive a particular reality. By defending another, I encounter relationships I had not previously recognized.

The Wright brothers also tested models and corrected measurements. The air did not need to agree with either of them. What emerges Between Us does not create truth through consensus; it offers opportunities to confront interpretations with evidence. Studies of disagreeing perspectives have identified benefits for certain estimates, especially difficult ones, but not for all.

APUS, Tekoha, and the Territory That Participates

In BrainLatam's original conceptual framework, APUS connects extended proprioception with possibilities of position, reach, and movement. Tekoha opens questions about interoception and lived territory. These uses do not replace their original Indigenous meanings.

The swimmer perceives new distances. The musician perceives the pause. But the territory of the encounter does not end with human bodies.

<Entity category="people" value="Ailton Krenak"/> invites us to recognize rivers, trees, mountains, and other beings as participants in the relationships of life, rather than merely resources available to humans. In Ideas to Postpone the End of the World, he questions the separation between humanity and Earth.

Perhaps transcending our ways of Being means discovering, Between Us, movements, feelings, and interpretations that our individual repertoire had not yet encountered—recognizing a We that includes rivers, trees, mountains, and other beings.

We are not claiming that a mountain possesses human cognition. We recognize that its conditions and transformations genuinely participate in what we are able to Do.

5D Consciousness and the Difference Between Acting Together and Jiwasa

Within the 5D Consciousness hypothesis: “Consciousness is a movement that perceives itself as Being within the metabolism produced.” This does not imply conscious control over every metabolic process.

Within Human Quorum Sensing, we investigate whether reciprocal encounters expand perception, anticipation, feelings, and choice. EEG and fNIRS can provide complementary measurements, but neural synchronization does not prove collective consciousness.

A crowd can also obey in synchrony. In the Jiwasa we propose, difference must preserve the possibility of transforming the shared direction.

In artistic swimming, breathing and breath-holding introduce additional physiological demands. Elevated CO₂ does not mean better brain performance, and hypoxia can be dangerous. These effects must be studied separately from reciprocity.

The State Must Also Be Able to Learn

Imagine a community deciding the future of a river. One person knows its floods, another depends on fishing, another notices changes in the forest. No single perspective exhausts the territory.

Listening is not enough: information must be allowed to change decisions. And, following Krenak, we must recognize that the river is not merely a resource disputed among humans.

The Jiwasa-State, as a philosophical proposal, would need to create conditions for disagreement without loss of belonging, for correcting direction, and for responding to consequences experienced by humans and other beings.

Trust is not unanimity. Belonging is not obedience.

What Can We Awaken Together?

Let us return to the swimmer: other athletes make unknown trajectories visible. To the horse and rider: the obstacle demands reciprocal adjustments. To the musicians: the pause allows an unforeseen movement. To the Wright brothers: disagreement opens interpretations that can be tested.

In every case, previous learning remains, but ceases to be the definitive limit.

Perhaps transcending our ways of Being means being able to abandon the anticipated movement without losing our place Between Us.

The question we bring to our investigation is: Can collective training, under conditions of trust and belonging, expand individual and shared capacities to feel, perceive, anticipate, and act, especially when a transition requires improvisation?

And if this We also includes rivers, trees, mountains, and other beings, our responsibilities no longer end where human choreography ends.

Annotated References

Krenak, Ailton (2019). Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (Ideas to Postpone the End of the World). Companhia das Letras.

Questions the separation between humanity and Earth and the reduction of rivers, mountains, and forests to mere resources. Supports the ethical and ontological expansion of We beyond humans, in dialogue with BrainLatam's original concept of the Jiwasa-State.

Krenak, Ailton (2020). A vida não é útil (Life Is Not Useful). Companhia das Letras.

Develops an understanding of life as relationship and continuity extending through rivers, mountains, and forests, challenging an exclusively human conception of belonging.

Edmondson, Amy (1999). Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(2), 350–383.

Relates psychological safety to learning behaviors in teams. Provides a foundation for investigating trust, experimentation, acknowledging mistakes, and preserving belonging.

Hutcheon, Evan A. et al. (2023). Associations between spontaneous electroencephalogram oscillations and oxygen saturation across normobaric and hypobaric hypoxia. Human Brain Mapping.

Investigates relationships between EEG and oxygenation under experimental hypoxia. Inspires research into transitions but does not demonstrate enhanced creativity or cognitive plasticity through reduced oxygenation.

Goupil, Louise et al. (2021). Emergent Shared Intentions Support Coordination During Collective Musical Improvisations. Cognitive Science, 45(1), e12932.

Experimentally investigates how shared intentions can emerge during collective musical improvisation, supporting coordination without requiring an entirely predetermined plan.

Beaty, Roger E. (2015). The neuroscience of musical improvisation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 51, 108–117.

Reviews research on musical improvisation, creativity, cognitive control, and motor processes. Supports understanding improvisation as a transformation of learned repertoires.

Sebanz, Natalie; Bekkering, Harold; Knoblich, Günther (2006). Joint action: Bodies and minds moving together. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(2), 70–76.

Examines mechanisms of joint action, anticipation, and representation of other people's tasks, helping distinguish individual performance from collective organization.

Lagarde, Julien; Peham, Christian; Licka, Theresia; Kelso, J. A. Scott (2005). Coordination dynamics of the horse-rider system. Journal of Motor Behavior, 37(6), 418–424.

Analyzes biomechanical patterns of coordination between horse and rider. Coordination is not interpreted as evidence of unified consciousness between the organisms.

McCullough, David (2015). The Wright Brothers. Simon & Schuster.

A biography describing the collaboration and disagreements between Wilbur and Orville Wright, including occasions when they came to defend positions previously held by the other.

National Air and Space Museum — Smithsonian Institution. Researching the Wright Way.

Presents the Wright brothers' aerodynamic investigations, including measurements, tests, and revisions of hypotheses. Supports the distinction between interpersonal agreement and confronting interpretations with evidence.

Van de Calseyde, Philippe P. F. M.; Efendić, Emir (2022). Taking a Disagreeing Perspective Improves the Accuracy of People's Quantitative Estimates. Psychological Science, 33(6), 971–983.

Experimentally examines how considering disagreeing perspectives can improve certain quantitative estimates, without implying that all disagreement improves decision-making.

Van de Calseyde, Philippe P. F. M.; Efendić, Emir (2025). Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions. Psychological Science.

Shows that the benefits of considering another perspective depend on question difficulty, reinforcing the need to evaluate the accuracy of interpretations empirically.

De Jaegher, Hanne; Di Paolo, Ezequiel (2007). Participatory sense-making: An enactive approach to social cognition. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 6, 485–507.

Develops participatory sense-making, offering a foundation for investigating how interaction changes individual and collective possibilities for action and interpretation.

BrainLatam — Cionek, Jackson (2026). O cérebro durante a mudança - os 150 segundos de Hutcheon.

Explores the methodological importance of observing the dynamics of change rather than merely comparing initial and final states.

BrainLatam — Cionek, Jackson (2026). A maravilha de Ser muitos sem deixar de Ser.

Develops the hypothesis of relational emergence in collectives, preserving differences among participants and distinguishing synchronization from reciprocity.

BrainLatam — Cionek, Jackson (2026). Quando nos reunimos - liberdade, alostase e o “um entre nós”.

Explores trust, belonging, shared regulation, and collective emergence without eliminating the individuality of Body-Territories.

BrainLatam — Cionek, Jackson (2026). Completude do Movimento.

Presents the original Completeness of Movement hypothesis, here related to interrupting and transforming prepared movements during reciprocal encounters.

BrainLatam — Cionek, Jackson (2026). APUS e Tekoha — Como o mundo entra no corpo e o corpo retorna ao mundo.

Develops original interpretations of extended proprioception and interoception, while preserving the distinction between these proposals and their original Indigenous cultural meanings.

Cionek, Jackson. Religare — Religiosidade Plena em um Estado Democrático, Laico e de Direito.

An original philosophical work on freedom of Being, belonging, and shared organization, in dialogue with the emergence of the Jiwasa-State.

Scientific and conceptual note: The dialogue with Ailton Krenak philosophically extends belonging to rivers, trees, mountains, and other beings without attributing BrainLatam's neurophysiological concepts to him. Trust, improvisation, and reciprocity have investigable scientific foundations, while Jiwasa emergence and the 5D Consciousness hypothesis remain original conceptual proposals.

Central principle: We need trust to explore the unknown and belonging to transcend our ways of Being. And when we recognize that We also includes rivers, trees, mountains, and other beings, our possibilities and responsibilities no longer end with ourselves.

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