Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Creativity as social mind

/An example of the very close relationship between instrumentation and
theory can be seen by considering the lens, which was indeed one of the
key features behind the development of modern scientific
thought….bringing the correspondence of specified features of object and
image into such sharp relief, the lens greatly strengthened man's
awareness of the various parts of the object and of the relationship
between these parts.(Quantum theory as an indication of a new order-
Wholeness and Implicate Order-David Bohm)/

/Part of m//y research involves the existence of the round shape, in
connection with the conditions of the hole, and the exposure of those
parameters. The scientific terms of 'the hole' connected with
philosophical terms, is what I deal with. Creations of illusions so to
comment the real, on the absence of it, using society's elements, only
'transformed'. The research of the in between spaces, that we do not
consider relevant, when we already know the two points connected. The in
between space of conscious and subconscious, the so called 'intermediary
space', has been my point of research. It still is.
/

http://reaction-lalou.com/observation%20video.htm
http://reaction-lalou.com/observation-more%20info.htm

Would like to thank you Paul and Simon, for your postings!! they seem
very helpful and inspiring sources.
My name is M_ Lalou, I an artist, designer-interior architect, and
individual researcher(for now).
I am working and writing about intermediary spaces,... in sense of
language-poetics-communicating through lines, through my installations
usually interactive and performances, based on illusion, and taking
further my research, about the intermediary space of conscious and
subconscious, as a reflect and a metaphor of the space between of me and
'you', in an individualistic self, with a social awareness, using glass
'that allow us the visual union of the outside with the inside. Other
times mirror that becomes a scepter for vanity - and lets us look at the
hidden corners of ourselves' or in reflect of-creating vexing spaces


/Motion creates a change of form;
'A new from' every single moment of 'Time'.
If time is a passage of elements, thus it forms an acting shape.
Shape of space forming nature of an Organism
cells of the Organism stepping through Time, reforming its shape.

Whilst space is organic nature
Does nature equals logic? Is that an existing formula?

/kindly

M_Lalou

http://reaction-lalou.com

Paul Brown wrote:
> Simon - a predictable response :) [so here's one from me]
>
> As you know I'm happier with the British Analytical tradition and more
> sympathetic to Andy's work rather than what I see as the platitudinous
> imponderables of the Continental School.
>
> However I agree it is interesting that these two strands become
> adjacent as they develop. I'm interested in discovering links that
> bridge what we have become used to calling Modernist and Postmodern
> thought like this. Another good one is Varela & Kauffman's
> application of Spencer Brown's calculus of indications (essentially a
> boundary grammar) to self-reference and autopoiesis. (Form Dynamics,
> J. Social Biol. Struct. 1980 3, 171-206).
>
> Best
> Paul
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> On 12 Aug 2009, at 00:59, Simon Biggs wrote:
>
>> Andy is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics here at Edinburgh and he has
>> close links with the art college so I am very familiar with his work. To
>> some extent it is relevant to what I am arguing but our points of
>> departure
>> are profoundly different. Andy is coming out of the Anglo-American
>> rationalist tradition of philosophy and very much involved in debates
>> around
>> the neurophysiology of mind. I am taking my references from people like
>> Foucault, Ortiz and Latour whose concerns are more with socially
>> situated
>> ontologies of mind. However, what is interesting is that whilst these
>> perspectives have such differrent sources they do connect up further
>> down
>> the road. The arguments would tend to strengthen one another whilst
>> putting
>> the sources for each under a critical microscope.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> Simon Biggs
>> Research Professor
>> edinburgh college of art
>> s.biggs@eca.ac.uk
>> www.eca.ac.uk
>> www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
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>> simon@littlepig.org.uk
>> www.littlepig.org.uk
>> AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk
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>> From: Paul Brown <paul@paul-brown.com>
>> Reply-To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:29:44 +0100
>> To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS <yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
>> Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Creativity as social mind
>>
>> I think Andy Clark's name has come up in this discussion before but
>> Simon's
>> comments remind me of his concept of the extended mind:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark
>> http://mymindonbooks.com/?p=815
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> On 11 Aug 2009, at 17:51, Simon Biggs wrote:
>>
>>> Wittgenstein wrote:
>>>
>>> It is misleading then to talk of thinking as of a 'mental
>>> activity'. We may say that thinking is essentially the activity
>>> of operating with signs. This activity is performed by the hand,
>>> when we think by writing; by the mouth and larynx, when we think
>>> by speaking; and if we think by imagining signs or pictures, I
>>> can give you no agent that thinks. If then you say that in such
>>> cases the mind thinks, I would only draw attention to the fact
>>> you are using a metaphor, that here the mind is an agent in a
>>> different sense from that in which the hand can be said to be
>>> the agent in writing.
>>>
>>> If again we talk about the locality where thinking takes place
>>> we have a right to say that this locality is the paper on which
>>> we write or the mouth which speaks. And if we talk of the head
>>> or the brain as the locality of thought, this is using the
>>> 'locality of thinking' in a different sense.[1]
>>>
>>> -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Preliminary studies for the
>>> "Philosophical investigations".
>>>
>>> The argument Wittgenstein is proposing here is that thinking is an
>>> activity
>>> that might be located in all sorts of places other than the mind. He
>>> suggests that mind itself might be little more than a metaphor, a
>>> conceptual
>>> receptacle we can use so as to be able to identify where we
>>> subjectively do
>>> things like thinking, talking, perceiving and feeling. Wittgenstein
>>> suggests
>>> that the mind might not exist as anything more than metaphor or,
>>> that if it
>>> does exist, it might exist in place(s) we do not expect.
>>>
>>> I'd like to add to the places mind can exist the creative space that
>>> exists
>>> between us all; the social relationships we forge and are forged by,
>>> through
>>> our exchanges, whether large (a significant cultural intervention, for
>>> example) or so small we are not aware anything is there at all. I
>>> would like
>>> to think it is in the innumerable small things we share that we
>>> largely
>>> exist, only being reminded of ourselves as a phenomenon of this
>>> process of
>>> culturation when we encounter the big event (what might sometimes be
>>> called
>>> genius – a word I find unuseful). Through this view we might gain a
>>> more
>>> profound understanding of what is often called popular culture but
>>> which
>>> might be better characterised as of the same ilk as Fernando Ortiz's
>>> concept
>>> of transculturation.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>> Simon Biggs
>>> Research Professor
>>> edinburgh college of art
>>> s.biggs@eca.ac.uk
>>> www.eca.ac.uk
>>> www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
>>>
>>> simon@littlepig.org.uk
>>> www.littlepig.org.uk
>>> AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk
>>>
>>>
>>>
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