Orientation Before Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798243388702)

Orientation as a Biological Process: Neurobiology and Functional Adaptation

This book redefines orientation: not as a conscious decision, attitude, or interpretation, but as a fundamental biological process. It illustrates how balance, movement, and adaptation emerge from the integration of sensory information-long before language or cognitive evaluation even come into play.

Drawing on well-established research in human neurobiology, the human nervous system serves as the primary reference model. The horse is utilized as a comparative model, sharing identical neurobiological foundations. The decisive advantage: in the horse, functional adaptations occur without complex human masking-making changes visible at a much earlier and clearer stage.

By integrating neurobiology with functional observation, this work consistently moves away from:

• Blame or judgment

• Ideological approaches

• Dramatization

Instead, it demonstrates how bodies react directly to environmental conditions. It provides the biological answer to why visible behavior is, above all, neutral and essential information.