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From Split to Bridge
I like how this builds from handedness to the capacity to imagine other minds… Beneficent spiral Research at Newcastle University points to a possible source for a particular recursive ability in the human mind: our skill at conceiving of the … Continue reading
Liminal
At the end, on the last page of A Poem As Long As The Highway by Douglas Barbour there is a set of lines that mark the ongoing nature of the poem as an act of cognition (learning). Set off-centre … Continue reading
Setting The Pace: Pacing the Set
The opening chapter of Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking brings the simple act of walking into the gambit of cogitation. Moving on foot seems to make it easier to move in time, the mind wanders from plans to … Continue reading
Mapping, Proximity and Simultaneity
Dan Llyod. Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness Caffeine intake; computer interaction. Provide epiphany. I imagined an arrow swooping like a blackbird through the labyrinth. It says “YOU ARE HERE!” in a point that gets its meaning from the … Continue reading
What is Taught and What Teaches
Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1996) Volume 1 – Looking Forward Looking Back Part Three: Building the Foundation of a Renewed Relationship Chapter 15 – Rekindling the Fire in the subsection “Words Are Not Enough” The perception of the world … Continue reading
Muscle Messages
This is a speculation set up by Alphonso Linguis (“Orchids and Muscle” in Exceedingly Nietzsche) through the thought of Leroi-Gourhan. See how it all pivots on the placement of the expressive function. In the human primate, a distinctive reflexive circuit … Continue reading
Doing Things
Notes made on June 23, 2003, and now brought forward — a bringing forward, a thing we do with things. Read a piece by Stevan Harnad “Categorization as Cognition” in which he lists five things we can do with things. … Continue reading
Roughing It
Terry Eagleton. Saints and Scholars. A eureka moment for the character Wittgenstein. Notable for the physicality with which it is described. Then one day a friend took his photograph on the steps of Senate House and Wittgenstein asked him where … Continue reading
Comprehending Through Creation, Collaboration and Communication
This bit on the Categories of Knowledge and Skills The achievement chart identifies four categories of knowledge and skills that are common to both the elementary and secondary panels and to all subject areas and disciplines. The categories, defined by … Continue reading
Digital Virtues
The following comes from a rather lapidary text from 2001: Per Interactivity ad Virtuality via Textuality. http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ivt.htm In a way it is a meditation upon the micro-theatre of navigating cyberspace. Each tiny moment is an encounter with decisions and such … Continue reading