ABSTRACT
By the time we can first think about it we have already become the sorts of beings who live in
human worlds. Our particular world will have shaped us in specific ways for its own needs. It will
have taught us some of the paths worth following and how to find our way within what, at that
point, will be ‘our’ world. It may or may not have given us the adaptive skills necessary were the
configuration of our being in this world to change radically, or were we to find ourselves in new
worlds. Either way, whether embedded in deeply traditional worlds or in transition between
new fast-changing ones, a fundamental problem confronting every one of us, and indeed every
sentient creature, is how to position ourselves in the worlds we inhabit and how to find our way
around them. Skills in navigating human worlds are primary requirements for successful human
being. Location is a basic ontological category for psychology.
