conception and perception
February 17, 2010
Looking at an experimental musical score, I recognized that things aren’t conceived of in the way they are perceived.
There are arts in minimizing the difference.
if madonna can write a kids book
August 3, 2009
for a short story: A landlord’s opulent house is densely surrounded by his tenants. For the tenants the winters are difficult to endure.
It is discovered that plumbing from tenant-building water heaters also runs out the walls in the direction of the landlord’s imposing castle.
caboose thoughts
July 27, 2009
…a symbol, its sole criterion: that it evince thingness.
Is the Color orange a symbol? Yes.
Is the sensation of orange a symbol? No, it is lightly processed stimuli.
The sensation of orange may trigger ideas and relationships, so it is possible to say that “semantic frameworks” are not “symbolic frameworks”. Possibly, then, ‘semantics’ is to deal with processed chunks of stimuli, and is therefore inherently fuzzy, not ideally formalizable. Semantic frameworks encompass symbols, however, though it is obviously of value to retain the distinctions between “semantics” generally and “symbols” specifically.
And why are symbols fallible? Because non-formal systems are relative (increasingly less so with heavily used, common shared symbols), and formal systems are perpetually incomplete, provably so.
And of discrete formal systems, what are we to set ourselves to if “thingness” and ideal (complete) definition are not possible? Determine why good approximations work, where the discreteness arises amidst the abstraction.
Oh, constructively confuddled
June 15, 2009
and just what am I to do about the corner I’ve walked into?
To desire or require that an expressed object be autonomous (be successful, functional, and itself complete without reference)
-BUT-
also to know that nothing is or works without reference.
post-shower writeup
March 21, 2009
No thing can be of a singular, constant nature. If it is, there is evidence suggesting something is being arbitrarily enforced.
two things reveal a great deal upon decoding”
1. The Intuition is driven by impressions made by experiences (for the most part)
2. The reason that we cannot predict with complete accuracy the behaviors of another person is fundamentally the same reason a computer simulation cannot recreate with complete accuracy the behaviors of a natural phenomenon (even beyond the disparity of the digital)
thread
March 21, 2009
1. Minkowski: 4-space
2. Einstein: Relativity
3. Bridgman: Operationalism
4. the dissolution of the staunch project of Science (in some regards), all concepts are of definitive processes, of comparisons
5. the calculation of a semantic frame (sending text through a latent semantic mapping algorithm, for example) is not an end in itself. Its results require interpretation
Thing, Process, Idea
March 21, 2009
thing <—> process <—> idea
“idea” - this word isn’t satisfying. It implies boundaries and more sharpness, which confuses the other two definitions.
“thing” useless (and therefore would have struggled to develop biologically) without process, something to be done with the thing as operation: A thing is conceptualized in the mind by the processes that interact with it.
Processes are meaningless if not set to work upon things. Things, however, are just other processes. When do we classify a group of processes as a thing? When do bundles of brainwaves become a discrete thought, when does a quantum field manifest as atoms and become a rock? “When” is misleading, “Why” is misguided- HOW is the word that should actually be employed in these questions.
a thread
March 21, 2009
Ghostbusters theme
riff sample
Will Smith, Stevie Wonder
continuation of “wholesome homeboy” lyricism
KRS-ONE: Vegetarian- cool via importance
Oh yeah? Well being an omnivore is cool because it doesn’t disrupt the transmission of materials and energy through the biosphere.
seeds finally planted.
March 21, 2009
Here a well of excerpts drawn from the subterranean stream. Postings begin within the red notebook, none yet from earlier.
false distinction
February 17, 2009
Humans concerned with their humanity, or thinkers contemplating the mystery of it all as psychology;
False dichotomy of brain and body, of soul and World, of consciousness and corporeality;
Social veils over sex and eating;
the medicalization of health;
Sure, these have their wobbling levels of validity, but ultimately they reinforce and are reinforced by a widespread misconceptualization of ourselves – a disconnect from the animal; a fuzzy glass through which we try to make sense of our intellect.
