'IDLE-MINDNESS' - There is nothing 'naturally ready-and-present' to occupy 'the unoccupied mind' other than what experience has caused, precipitated or -critically, what someone-or-society may have 'deliberated' to be registrable and registered there. As essential antithesis of 'deliberate' (or even inadvertently 'captive') mental occupation, the 'idle-mind state' is the state of potential occupation 'out' of which deliberative capability operates in the generation of 'knowledge'. It is thus, the physicality of circumstance, situation and the 'idle-mind-state' in particular and alone that underlie the 'freedom of choice' of one's persona and out of which, consequently, 'life-style-and-quality' and the culture of a people evolve. The 'idle-mind state' in this respect, goes unappreciated for the fact of its transiency -that it is occupied immediately by anything from 'physiologically internal' to whatever situation circumstance happens to present -'naturally, deliberately and/or serendipitously' -even to graffiti and 'mindless vandalism'.
[Anyone doubting the existence of 'idle-mind time' and 'idle-mind occupation' need look no further than Dear Abby or Ann Landers for example -for the complaints of wives about retired husbands who, 'having nothing better to do', follow them around the kitchen, the laundry and anywhere else either babbling or telling them how to do their work. Be that what it be, one might also consider the role this property plays in economics today and our use of the resource/environment -GameBoy playing, cell-phone chatting, flicking-on the TV ('nothing better to do'), The Scorpion King? -see 'Business' and 'Making money'.]
What occupation there is, 'genetically speaking', is only whatever 'indefinable primitive idiomatics' there are that attach basic evolution of 'a sexually congregational organism of deliberative capability' -neonate sucking, hand-to-mouth motions, certain imprintings and, growingly, physiological sensitivities and capabilities registering experience thru genetic disposition -learning mechanisms and eventually evolving companionship and sex. What occupation ultimately depends upon then (learning, knowledge), is its physiologically material constitution and the 'dimensions, mass and quality of experience entered and entering that constitution', the antithesis of which is sensory deprivation. -It is the 'how' and 'by what' of that occupation that is a major factor in the human condition. Idle-mind-occupation, consequently, goes unappreciated for how it plays into 'the nature and constitution of human-being'; present-day life-style-and-quality, persona and culture, consequently, continue to be based largely upon 'hominid-being survival-of-the-fittest' pecking-order(*5).
[Primitive and early man had little 'idle-mind time', taken-up as all time was either by just trying to stay alive or recovering from that -largely a matter of where one stood in 'the pecking-order of things'. But one has only to observe someone with 'nothing to do' -clinically, to understand the importance of 'meritable experience' in life-style-and-quality. In the absence of viability-related or motivating circumstances, the idle mind is occupied either 'best as can out of experience' or it defaults: the 'financially able to indulge themselves' do so, for example, and the destitute or unemployable beg, steal, vandalize, drink or drug-out. It remains the 'how' and 'by what' of that occupation that is a major factor in the human condition.]
The thesis here is that it is not true that we 'know' 'how' 'what kind' of 'idle-mind occupation' should or can play into 'life-style-and-quality and what the system can bear' -except deliberatively and heuristically. In terms of such an organism and its increasingly complex society, it is rather 'a poverty of progressive, communal experience' that leads to 'an impoverished communal presence and response', and it is the 'human-organism-advancing occupation' of this idle-mind state by physically experiential knowledge (-there is no other) that determines the meaning and content of 'hominid-being', 'the human condition' and 'the nature and constitution of human-being'.