Embodied Human Intersubjectivity:Imaginative Agency, To Share Meaning Human beings move coherently as individual selves, body and mind adapted to perform complex activities with imagination, knowledge, and skill; perceiving the environment by engaging it with discrimination and care. Human beings live intersubjectively in communitiesl each with the rituals, beliefs, and language of a culture, along with a history of affective relationships and agreed habits for acting in cooperation. These attachments and cultural habits depend upon an ability to sense the intentions, interests, and feelings of other human selves through sympathetic response to motives and emotions as displayed in the shapes and rhythms of body movement: an ability that infants possess from birth. No brain theory explains this 'felt immediacy' of others' life experience, which philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment accepted as proof that human beings are 'innately sympathetic'. An innate time sense, capacity to 'attune' to the dynamics of body movement, and ability to recognise serial ordering in 'stories' all appear essential. A theory of 'communicative musicality' employs key parameters of pulse, quality of movement, and narrative, applying them to poetry, music, dance, the prosody and rhetoric of language, and the regulation of skillful practices of all kinds. These elements -present in foetal movements and engaged in through joyful intersubjective 'story-telling' from birth -give direct information on how the human brain orchestrates reflex functions to move the body with sensations of grace and efficiency. Their age-related development leads to mastery of language and cultural rituals. They conduct all cognitive functions and all meaning making.One moves with a body and mind adapted to perform many complex activities with knowledge and skill, engaging energetically and sensitively with the environment. At the same time, people also live in communities, each of which has a culture with rituals, beliefs, and language: a history of habits for acting in cooperation, of 'acts of meaning' (Bruner 1990). These cultural habits change one's awareness of the world and of one another's intentions and perceptions. No other species has such powers of mobility, creativity, communication, and cooperation. But these do not mean that human EMBODIED HUMAN INTERSUBJECTIVITY | 7 beings are the best adapted for a secure way of life in the future. Acting together, people also transform their environment. As Alfred North Whitehead observed long ago, humans' intelligent creativity and cooperation may threaten their relationship with nature. Writing about how organisms exist, he said:On the one side there is a given environment with organisms adapting themselves to it…. The other side of the evolutionary machinery, the neglected side, is expressed by the word creativeness. The organisms can create their own environment. For this purpose the single organism is almost helpless. The adequate forces require societies of cooperating organisms. But with such cooperati...