The world created by the moving body is one that marks distinctions through interrelating the basic building blocks of simultaneous and consecutive movement, duration and direction of that movement, by referencing all movement to the sense of uprightness of the body’s vertical axis and by reference to a non-visual spatial sense that locates objects by their proximity and reachability. Just like all the other sensory worlds it is a complete world in that the categories will make sense of the world on their own.  If a person could not see or hear or utilize any of the other sense, the world would still be perceived as a whole world, one that was translatable—livable—by someone with only this set of categories and the rules they develop. 

The world of the moving body, like that of the skin is continuous and immediate, but unlike the skin this is a world of spatial extension. It is a world of here and far. It is a world that has a primitive sense of past and future—cause and effect—since many of the possible movements of the body occur consecutively and need recourse to concepts like “before” and “after” or “this-then.”  Like the skin though, this world is complete in itself. It organizes reality as if there were no other.  It is this capacity that makes the various selves (both dominate and non-) so fundamentally independent of each other, yet makes the aware-self (which is completely reliant on the non-dominant selves (in-part the senses) for information about the world) such a dependent entity.

With reference to memory and the pattern of neurons which store memory, according to Rita Carter, concepts can be thought of in a similar way. That is, the physical linkages between cells in a neuronal pattern (what Carter calls “unconscious concepts”), which get stronger and stronger with each use or reactivation, when activated to a certain level of energy and “integrated with the general ‘chorus’ of activity in the brain” causes us to become aware of the stored concept—as a concept.  In this way the body, which moving through the world, repeats and repeats and repeats general “knowledge” about sequencing, pattern, movement, cause and effect, etc. creates and stores concepts that our aware selves take to be the product of itself thinking and reflecting.  But, in fact, they are the body thinking.