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SPHERICAL. Go Figure.Honeycomb
∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ Icosahedral
24 January 2015
23 January 2015
"From Vedic times, the bindi was created as a means to worship one's
intellect. Therefore, it was used by both men and women. The worship of
intellect was in order to use it to ensure our thoughts, speech,
actions, habits and ultimately our character becomes pure. A strong
intellect can help one to make noble decisions in life, be able to stand
up to challenges in life with courage, and recognise and welcome good
thoughts in life. The belief was that on this a strong individual, a
strong family and strong society can be formed."
"In Buddhist art and culture, the Urna (more correctly ūrṇā or ūrṇākośa (Pāli uṇṇa), and known as byakugō (白毫) in Japan) is a spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark. It symbolizes a third eye, which in turn symbolizes vision into the divine world;
a sort of ability to see past our mundane universe of suffering."
a sort of ability to see past our mundane universe of suffering."
"The most typical psychological term for functions carried out by the prefrontal cortex area is executive function.
Executive function relates to abilities to differentiate among
conflicting thoughts, determine good and bad, better and best, same and
different, future consequences of current activities, working toward a
defined goal, prediction of outcomes, expectation based on actions, and
social "control" (the ability to suppress urges that, if not suppressed,
could lead to socially unacceptable outcomes).
Frontal cortex supports concrete rule learning. More anterior regions
along the rostro-caudal axis of frontal cortex support rule learning at
higher levels of abstraction.
"But if the brain confusing reality and literalness with metaphor and
symbol can have adverse consequences, the opposite can occur as well. At
one juncture just before the birth of a free South Africa, Nelson
Mandela entered secret negotiations with an Afrikaans general with death
squad blood all over his hands, a man critical to the peace process
because he led a large, well-armed Afrikaans resistance group. They met
in Mandela’s house, the general anticipating tense negotiations across a
conference table. Instead, Mandela led him to the warm, homey living
room, sat beside him on a comfy couch, and spoke to him in Afrikaans.
And the resistance melted away.
This neural confusion about the literal versus the metaphorical gives
symbols enormous power, including the power to make peace. The political
scientist and game theorist Robert Axelrod of the University of
Michigan has emphasized this point in thinking about conflict
resolution. For example, in a world of sheer rationality where the brain
didn’t confuse reality with symbols, bringing peace to Israel and
Palestine would revolve around things like water rights, placement of
borders, and the extent of militarization allowed to Palestinian police.
Instead, argues Axelrod, “mutual symbolic concessions” of no material
benefit will ultimately make all the difference. He quotes a Hamas
leader who says that for the process of peace to go forward, Israel must
apologize for the forced Palestinians exile in 1948. And he quotes a
senior Israeli official saying that for progress to be made,
Palestinians need to first acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and to
get their anti-Semitic garbage out of their textbooks.
Hope for true peace in
the Middle East didn’t come with the news of a trade agreement being
signed. It was when President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Hussein of
Jordan attended the funeral of the murdered Israeli prime minister
Yitzhak Rabin. That same hope came to the Northern Irish, not when
ex-Unionist demagogues and ex-I.R.A. gunmen served in a government
together, but when those officials publicly commiserated about each
other’s family misfortunes, or exchanged anniversary gifts. And
famously, for South Africans, it came not with successful negotiations
about land reapportionment, but when black South Africa embraced rugby
and Afrikaans rugby jocks sang the A.N.C. national anthem.
Nelson Mandela was
wrong when he advised, “Don’t talk to their minds; talk to their
hearts.” He meant talk to their insulas and cingulate cortices and all
those other confused brain regions, because that confusion could help
make for a better world."
Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky
"... On the contrary: he was convinced that what he had encountered could
not be real. At best it must be a hallucination: a trick of the eye or
the ear, or his own mind working against him...
... Though the reverential legends about him are often magnificent, they work as perhaps all legends do: they obscure more than they reveal, and he becomes more a symbol than a human being."
http://www.cbc.ca/tapestry/episode/2013/10/31/muhammad-from-orphan-to-prophet/
... Though the reverential legends about him are often magnificent, they work as perhaps all legends do: they obscure more than they reveal, and he becomes more a symbol than a human being."
http://www.cbc.ca/tapestry/episode/2013/10/31/muhammad-from-orphan-to-prophet/
So some instances call for for closeness to reality and others for furthering symbolics or a combination of both to help bring about the optimal well in evolving our interactions.
10 November 2014
"The famous Poohsticks Bridge...
If you intend to play a game of Poohsticks at the bridge,
you'd better grab a stick along the way,
because the area around the bridge is usually plucked bare"
If you intend to play a game of Poohsticks at the bridge,
you'd better grab a stick along the way,
because the area around the bridge is usually plucked bare"
"The original wooden crossing on which the illustration is based –
known as Posingford bridge, at Hartfield farm, Sussex – had fallen into
disrepair by the 1970s.
It was carefully restored and reopened in May 1979 by Christopher Milne – the author’s son who inspired the character of Christopher Robin.
At that unveiling ceremony it was described
“as important a bridge as any in the world”.
The bridge was completely rebuilt in 1999."
The Guardian
It was carefully restored and reopened in May 1979 by Christopher Milne – the author’s son who inspired the character of Christopher Robin.
At that unveiling ceremony it was described
“as important a bridge as any in the world”.
The bridge was completely rebuilt in 1999."
The Guardian
07 November 2014
02 November 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#mediaviewer/File:Equatorial_sundial_topview.gif
Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. It is often used in conjunction with convergent thinking, which follows a particular set of logical steps to arrive at one solution, which in some cases is a "correct" solution. Divergent thinking typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion. Many possible solutions are explored in a short amount of time, and unexpected connections are drawn. After the process of divergent thinking has been completed, ideas and information are organized and structured using convergent thinking.
Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. It is often used in conjunction with convergent thinking, which follows a particular set of logical steps to arrive at one solution, which in some cases is a "correct" solution. Divergent thinking typically occurs in a spontaneous, free-flowing manner, such that many ideas are generated in an emergent cognitive fashion. Many possible solutions are explored in a short amount of time, and unexpected connections are drawn. After the process of divergent thinking has been completed, ideas and information are organized and structured using convergent thinking.
Sensory gating describes neurological processes of filtering out redundant or unnecessary stimuli in the brain from all possible environmental stimuli.
Also referred to as gating or filtering, sensory gating prevents an
overload of irrelevant information in the higher cortical centers of the
brain. The pulvinar nuclei of the thalamus play a major role in attention, and filter out unnecessary information.
Although sensory gating is largely automatic, it also occurs within the
context of attentional processes. Though the term sensory gating has
been used interchangeably with sensorimotor gating, the two are distinct
constructs.
21 September 2014
James Burke's The Day the Universe Changed contains a story:
Someone apparently went up to the great philosopher Wittgenstein and
said "What a lot of morons back in the Middle Ages must have been to
have looked, every morning, at the dawn and to have thought what they
were seeing was the Sun going around the Earth," when every school kid
knows that the Earth goes around the Sun, to which Wittgenstein replied
"Yeah, but I wonder what it would have looked like if the Sun had been
going around the Earth?" Burke's point is that it "would have looked
exactly the same: you see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing."
... arguing that the meaning of words is best understood as their use within a given language-game [The rules of language
are analogous to the rules of games; thus saying something in a
language is analogous to making a move in a game. The analogy between a
language and a game demonstrates that words have meaning depending on
the uses made of them in the various and multiform activities of human
life. (The concept is not meant to suggest that there is anything
trivial about language, or that language is 'just a game', quite the
contrary.)]
At last, Wittgenstein writes, "Bach wrote on the title page of his Orgelbuechlein,
‘To the glory of the most high God, and that my neighbour may be
benefited thereby.’ That is what I would have liked to say about my
work.”
20 September 2014
"The analyses consume considerable computing cycles and require the use
of Stampede's large memory nodes, but they allow the group to
reconstruct the 'wiring diagrams' of cells by learning how all of the
proteins encoded by a genome are associated into functional pathways,
systems, and networks."
Saṃsara... meaning "continuous flow")... According to the view of these religions, a person's current life is
only one of many—stretching back before birth into past existences and
reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations. During the
course of each life the quality of the actions (karma)
performed determine the future destiny of each person. The Buddha
taught that there is no beginning to this cycle but that it can be ended
through perceiving reality. The goal of these religions is to realize
this truth, the achievement of which (like ripening of a fruit) is moksha or liberation.
"[A] true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the
heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he
is really to rule a ship"
Meanwhile, they dismiss the navigator as a useless stargazer, though he
is the only one with adequate knowledge to direct the ship's course.
14 September 2014
sublimation (uncountable)
- The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor state such that it does not pass through the intermediate liquid phase.
- The transformation of an impulse into something socially constructive.
sublime
From Middle French sublime, from Latin sublīmis (“high”), from sub- (“up to", "upwards”) + uncertain, often identified with Latin līmis, ablative singular of līmus (“oblique”) or līmen (“threshold", "entrance", "lintel”)
beauty
"There is evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily
determined, that things, aspects of people and landscapes considered
beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced
survival of the perceiving human's genes." [also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism]
"The classical Greek noun for "beauty" was κάλλος, kallos, and the adjective for "beautiful" was καλός, kalos. The Koine Greek word for beautiful was ὡραῖος, hōraios, an adjective etymologically coming from the word ὥρα, hōra, meaning "hour". In Koine Greek, beauty was thus associated with "being of one's hour""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
"... Schmidhuber's theory explicitly distinguishes between what's beautiful and what's interesting, stating that interestingness corresponds to the first derivative of subjectively perceived beauty. Here the premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity. Whenever the observer's learning process (which may be a predictive neural network; see also Neuroesthetics) leads to improved data compression such that the observation sequence can be described by fewer bits than before, the temporary interestingness of the data corresponds to the number of saved bits. This compression progress is proportional to the observer's internal reward, also called curiosity reward. A reinforcement learning algorithm is used to maximize future expected reward by learning to execute action sequences that cause additional interesting input data with yet unknown but learnable predictability or regularity."
"The fact that judgments of beauty and judgments of truth both are influenced by processing fluency, which is the ease with which information can be processed, has been presented as an explanation for why beauty is sometimes equated with truth."
"There have also been relatively successful attempts with regard to chess and music.
A relation between Max Bense's mathematical formulation of aesthetics in terms of "redundancy" and "complexity" and theories of musical anticipation was offered using the notion of Information Rate."
"... Schmidhuber's theory explicitly distinguishes between what's beautiful and what's interesting, stating that interestingness corresponds to the first derivative of subjectively perceived beauty. Here the premise is that any observer continually tries to improve the predictability and compressibility of the observations by discovering regularities such as repetitions and symmetries and fractal self-similarity. Whenever the observer's learning process (which may be a predictive neural network; see also Neuroesthetics) leads to improved data compression such that the observation sequence can be described by fewer bits than before, the temporary interestingness of the data corresponds to the number of saved bits. This compression progress is proportional to the observer's internal reward, also called curiosity reward. A reinforcement learning algorithm is used to maximize future expected reward by learning to execute action sequences that cause additional interesting input data with yet unknown but learnable predictability or regularity."
"The fact that judgments of beauty and judgments of truth both are influenced by processing fluency, which is the ease with which information can be processed, has been presented as an explanation for why beauty is sometimes equated with truth."
"There have also been relatively successful attempts with regard to chess and music.
A relation between Max Bense's mathematical formulation of aesthetics in terms of "redundancy" and "complexity" and theories of musical anticipation was offered using the notion of Information Rate."
13 September 2014
11 September 2014
... Synchronicity is the
coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained
by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.
—And we include in our
discussions Kammerer’s recognition of seriality as a form of meaningful
coincidence, which, while not considered by Jung, is encountered in such
events as the significant repetition of songs, numbers, and phrases...
To
understand how synchronicity manifests itself, we’ll look at the three
patterns in which it appears in our lives: single synchronicities; strings
of synchronicities that drive home a point; and meaning-packed, multilayered
synchronicity clusters...
Carl Jung drew upon Kammerer's work in his essay Synchronicity.
Koestler reported that, when researching for his biography about
Kammerer, he himself was subjected to "a meteor shower" of coincidences -
as if Kammerer's ghost were grinning down at him saying, "I told you
so!"
... advocated the Lamarckian theory of inheritance – the notion that organisms may pass to their offspring characteristics they have acquired in their lifetime.
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, where they are unlikely to be causally related. The subject sees it as a meaningful coincidence.
08 September 2014
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true – false
real – unreal
good – bad
right – wrong
affirmable – deniable
The compound of ideas I have in mind is
true (as in comprehensible)
a mixture of real and unreal
true (as in comprehensible)
a mixture of real and unreal
mostly good and sometimes bad (unpleasant in some of its manifestations)
mostly right and partly wrong (as in unsuitable).
Im affirming it and rarely deny it.
04 September 2014
Last Judgment detail
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/giotto-arena-chapel-part-1.html
Joachim
and Anna at the Golden Gate
23 August 2014
"Nu pendlar jag mellan ytterligare två saker som har med det ni sade om världar att göra. Dels talar ni om ett accepterande och ett fungerande inom en given världs, inom logos grundvalar och yttersta gränser, utan att ifrågasätta dem eller försöka omstörta dem… Skulle jag då kunna kalla denna aktivitet kosmografisk?...
Och dels talar ni om en aktivitet som öppnar vägen till det som jag vill kalla kosmogoniskt… Verksamheten som har som sitt mål en kvalitativt grundlig förändring av världen och tillträdet i ett rum som ligger bortom logos övermakt...
Varenda en av era termer måste finnas i hjärtat av de andra..."
http://chromatachromata.com/blanchot-promenerar/
Och dels talar ni om en aktivitet som öppnar vägen till det som jag vill kalla kosmogoniskt… Verksamheten som har som sitt mål en kvalitativt grundlig förändring av världen och tillträdet i ett rum som ligger bortom logos övermakt...
Varenda en av era termer måste finnas i hjärtat av de andra..."
http://chromatachromata.com/blanchot-promenerar/
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