Human development from this perspective might then be viewed as progressive achievement of a more profound, enduring, and all-encompassing identification with such states through which identity itself is redefined. This is work as defined by job specifications and classifications. This view would tend to be favoured by those concerned with the objective reality of such states as joy, pleasure, and love. For them, any other kinds of engagement are unreal abstractions of no significance, other than as distractions from the concrete reality of human experience. Human development might then be viewed as a process of achieving more intense experiences more frequently, rather as an art connoisseur seeks greater exposure to better paintings, through which his taste is developed.
Work has a symbolic dimension and engagement in it implies much more than can be captured in words.
Significance is derived from the unexpressed presence or the potential of any moment. Human development might then be viewed as the birth of such potential and the increasing recognition of the immensity that remains unexpressed. Inherently comprehensible phenomena Modes of engagement can be viewed as comprehensible in terms of existing paradigms or through their natural evolution. Work is what economic rationalists define it to be. Human development is then a process of making what is known to the experts more widely accessible and of investigating what they do not yet comprehend.