Therese
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I can see why, from the outside, the bundle looks like they are tending to their own self and needs - the object of their focus may seem arbitrary and/or insignificant to most people. But chances are it's not how they themselves perceive it. They may experience it as dedicating themselves to something important and/or meaningful.Perhaps the ‘ship’ is primarily concerned with its own operation. It doesn’t pay much attention to the winds, or completion (e.g. anchoring itself to the dock, which would require thinking outside one’s self and one’s needs). It just does its own thing and attempt to do it well.
It's quite likely that a serious interest in something - anything - will eventually lead to a greater perspective, because it's the nature of life. It's a network. Nothing stands on its own, everything and everyone is embedded in a context. And when you swap from let's say linguistics to psychology, you don't forget your competence in linguistics when you become a psychologist.
For example, we know that Harrison Ford's major interests include carpentry, philosophy (he quit college just before graduation), acting, aviation and the protection of nature.
I imagine that the difference between him and a see-saw person with the same interests would be that a see-saw native could have these items on his list kind of "in bulk" or in parallel. But for the bundle, there is an internal logic or thread that keeps it all together. For example they switched from linguistics to psychology because one somehow led to the other. I think that's what Jones means when he says that the bundle native is the "creator or proponent of an exclusive and well-integrated world".