by orchaeus | Jun 13, 2018 | Shared Link
https://aeon.co/ideas/the-medieval-senses-were-transmitters-as-much-as-receivers∞ Our ideas about senses have been damaged by science. Senses have both polarities. Send and receive. (Nearly) all of them. And there are hundreds, not five. Seeing transmits...
by orchaeus | May 31, 2018 | Shared Link
∞ We are trained to see paradoxes as novelties and contradictions. In fact, we have misevaluated the entire terrain. Paradoxes can (must) be ‘unpacked’ to reveal the model on which they are founded. Their originators were deeply aware of this power. As...
by orchaeus | May 26, 2018 | Shared Link
https://medium.com/repcog-intelligence/incursion-recursion-af561349bf93∞ It was a while ago, tomorrow. https://medium.com/repcog-intelligence/incursion-recursion-af561349bf93
by orchaeus | May 23, 2018 | Shared Link
https://wondercloud.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/active-sensing-tawny-the-magpie-and-ryan-heavyhead/∞ Like many forms of inveterate ignorance, certain forms of developmentally self-accelerating intelligence… are contagious. They arise and proceed as the result of...
by orchaeus | May 22, 2018 | Shared Link
“Fictions can approach forms of Truth that are entirely unavailable to nonfiction. So, too, imagination can present metaphors and similies that are ‘more like’ the nature of reality and relation than our everyday perspectives… yet are entirely...
by orchaeus | May 18, 2018 | Shared Link
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer”No matter how hard they try, brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain – or copies of words,...