Yãy hã mĩy Extended – The Body That Imitating, Transcends Itself
Yãy hã mĩy Extended – The Body That Imitating, Transcends Itself
First-Person Consciousness
A Good Dream in the Well-Being of Now
Before understanding, the body imitates.
Gesture precedes thought as the seed precedes the tree.
By observing another and repeating their movements, the infant inaugurates consciousness—not as reasoning but as immersion in presence.
Among the Maxakali, Yãy hã mĩy names this primordial act: the body that imitates in order to belong, the being that repeats in order to learn.
Yet Yãy hã mĩy Extended goes beyond mere imitation: it is the body that, in reproducing the world, reinvents it; that transforms repetition into creation; that learns to transcend its own gesture.
This ancestral wisdom speaks of a faith that is not theological but bodily.
Faith here is trust in movement—the intuitive knowing that the right gesture will open the right path.
The body acts with conviction before the mind understands.
When a musician improvises, when a craftsman shapes clay, or when a leader decides from calm presence, an invisible coherence unites intention and environment.
The gesture anticipates the result because the body predicts it.
Contemporary neuroscience calls this Affordance: the perception of opportunities for action offered by the world.
This perception does not arise from reasoning but from a kinesthetic trust emerging when body and environment fall into resonance (Grafton & Rizzolatti, 2022; Friston, 2022).
The body believes before the mind knows.
This is original faith—not belief in something external, but physiological confidence, a silent pact between gesture and reality.
Action is not sustained by certainty but by possibility, like walking on ground that solidifies under each step.
All human learning begins with this mimetic impulse.
To copy is not to lose authenticity; it is to prepare the ground for invention.
Mirror neurons, first described by Rizzolatti and Gallese, reveal that to watch an action is, neurologically, to act from within.
Seeing another’s hand move or smile activates the same motor circuits in us, creating a bridge between bodies—an embodied empathy (Decety, 2022; Dumas, 2020).
For Amerindian peoples this principle is lived intuitively: before hunting an animal, the hunter imitates it—its sounds, its steps, its breathing.
By doing so, he enters its spirit, and life regains balance.
In Yãy hã mĩy Extended, imitation is participation, not simulation.
The gesture does not represent the other—it becomes the other.
The body learns the world by living it, not as observer but as extension.
Such learning, sustained through repetition, is also the foundation of high performance.
When repetition transforms into bodily faith, the organism reaches an energetic coherence in which intention and action coincide.
Physiologically, this state is described as dynamic coupling—a synchronization of motor and sensory networks that reduces energy expenditure and enhances precision (Deco & Kringelbach, 2023; Northoff, 2022).
At that moment, body and environment cease to be two poles and become one living system in motion.
Performance stops being effort and becomes fruition: gesture flows, body thinks, environment responds.
Bodily faith is also the basis of the brain’s predictive architecture.
The brain does not wait for the world to reveal itself—it anticipates it.
It builds hypotheses about what is coming and acts to test them.
This structure of active inference is what Friston calls inference by action: consciousness as movement seeking to minimize the gap between expectation and reality.
When we believe a sound will occur, the auditory cortex is already preparing.
When we expect a touch, the body is already responding.
Even during sleep the brain keeps predicting, integrating external sounds into dream narratives to preserve experiential coherence (Siclari & Tononi, 2022).
To perceive is to believe, and to believe is to move coherently.
Faith is not a mental content but a biological process—the metabolism of hope, the gesture that transforms possibility into reality.
When this faith manifests collectively, the body ceases to be merely individual and begins to resonate with others.
Inter-brain synchronization—now measurable with EEG and fNIRS—shows that interacting brains can align their oscillatory patterns as if sharing the same field of consciousness (Czeszumski et al., 2022; Dumas, 2020).
Science thus describes what Indigenous wisdom has always known: when we act together, the world breathes with us.
Yãy hã mĩy Extended is therefore the gesture that crosses boundaries—the invisible dance between self and other, body and environment, faith and action.
Imitation is only the beginning; transcendence happens when gesture becomes language, when body thinks and thought becomes movement.
To live is to continue this infinite apprenticeship: to learn the rhythm of life, to imitate what it offers, to return form and meaning to it.
The body that imitates transcends itself not by repeating the world, but by understanding it through movement.
And in that movement it encounters the divine—not as something beyond, but as the very pulse of existence learning to recognize itself.
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A Good Dream in the Well-Being of Now
Sonho Bom no Bem-Estar do Agora
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Movimiento de las Aguas Interiores y Sincronía Circadiana del Ser
Movement of the Inner Waters and Circadian Synchrony of Being
Movimento das Águas Interiores e Sincronia Circadiana do Ser
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Body Territory – The Consciousness of Lived Space
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Movement of the Waters – The Vital Cycle Inside and Outside the Being
Movimento das Águas – O Ciclo Vital Dentro e Fora do Ser
Apus – La Propiocepción Extendida del Ser
Apus – The Extended Proprioception of Being
Apus – A Propriocepção Estendida do Ser
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Yãy hã mĩy Extended – The Body That Imitating, Transcends Itself
Yãy hã mĩy Extendido – O Corpo que Imitando se Transcende
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Extended Taá – The Dream that Connects All Things
Taá Estendido – O Sonho que Liga Todas as Coisas
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Weicho - Being Without Differences
Pei Utupe - El Alma como Información Comprometida
Pei Utupe - The Soul as Engaged Information
Pei Utupe - A Alma como Informação Engajada
Yãy hã mĩy - Imitarse Ser para Trascenderse Ser
Yãy hã mĩy - To Imitate Being to Transcend Being
Yãy hã mĩy - Imitar-se Ser para Transcender-se Ser
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The Dreaming of Information - The Taá
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