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August 5, 2010
The pictures on this site make me laugh in an uncontrollable way. Just silly or something deeper going on?
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Inspiration for New Topic
— Aug 06, 2010
We haven't had a new "weekly symbol" for awhile, and after looking at this photo - which is eerily both funny and disturbing, I would like to suggest that we focus on anthropomorphised things and how they represent key events in our lives. For instance, the anthropomorphised sink - which really did require a double take on my part to actually "see" the sink (i.e., I saw the face first!) - may represent our need to "clean up" the environment.
I know some of the group are having difficulties posting photos, and others may not have a way to do so even if they could figure it out, but even reporting back on curious or outstanding sights that anthropomorphise a non-human entity, be it an animal, plant (Meg Rivers is VERY good at posting these with her blogs!), or anything else for that matter, and then deciphering what it means to us individually and/or as a group and/or as a larger collective....well, what do you all think?
Stace Tussel
Hung out to dry
— Aug 06, 2010
My son spilt paint on the kitchen chairs today, so I removed the chair pads and washed them. This evening when I was sewing I spied this little posse hanging out to dry in my garden.
Decipherment
— Aug 07, 2010
Do you get any sense about a possible message in this imagery? I see faces...but I'm not sure how I feel about them or if they respresent anything special to me.
Stace Tussel
the brain
— Aug 07, 2010
it speaks to me only about the complexity of the human brain, and our amazing ability for example to recognize someone we haven't seen for years, at a distance, on a crowded street. Amazing but we take it for granted. In technology face recognition is difficult to replicate.
Yes, good example -
— Aug 07, 2010
I can see that too. That we see faces in everday items - like woodwork or linoleum, for example - is uncanny. Are we somehow "programmed" (by society and/or by our selves) to seek out the familiar, or assign a rather mundane meaning to chaos? If so...why? Does reassembling a broken mirror bring us to a personal comfort level, perhaps - or is it a stepping stone to finding meaning in life itself?
On a related note, fractals may be pleasant to view precisely because they already represent order in chaos. Yet even fractals can be anthropomorphised. Leonardo's human in a squared circle may be pertinent to our topic here, in a way, referencing how the golden mean provides a sort of basic algorithm for anthropomorphism.
There I go, confusing myself again. But I sense a key in the haystack here...
Stace Tussel
self referencing
— Aug 07, 2010
I was thinking about the artist Escher, he made works representing hands, eye and waterfall but this seems relevent to the discussion
SELF-REFERENCE AND INFORMATION
our final consideration of Escher's art involves its relationship to the fields of information science and artificial intelligence. This aspect of his work has been largely overlooked in previous studies, but the case for its importance to these fields was forcefully made by Douglas R. Hofstadter in his 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
A central concept which Escher captured is that of self-reference, which many believe lies near the heart of the enigma of consciousness – and the brain's ability to process information in a way that no computer has yet mimicked successfully.
The lithograph Drawing Hands and the woodcut Fish and Scales each captures this idea in a different way. In the former the self-reference is direct and conceptual; the hands draw themselves much the way that consciousness considers and constructs itself, mysteriously, with both self and self-reference inseparable and coequal. In Fish and Scales, on the other hand, the self-reference is more functional; one might rather call it self-resemblence. In this way the woodcut describes not only fish but all organisms, for although we are not built, at least physically, from small copies of ourselves, in an information-theoretic sense we are indeed built in just such a way, for every cell of our bodies carries the complete information describing the entire creature, in the form of DNA.
On a deeper level, self-reference is found in the way our worlds of perception reflect and intersect one another. We are each like a character in a book who is reading his or her own story, or like a picture of a mirror reflecting its own landscape. Many of Escher's works exhibit this theme of intersecting worlds, but we will here consider only one of the exemplars. As is common in Escher's treatment of this idea, the lithograph Three Spheres II makes use of the reflective properties of a spherical mirror. Here, as Hofstatder noted, “every part of the world seems to contain, and be contained in, every other part . . ..” The spheres relfect one another, the artist, the room in which he works, and the paper upon which he draws the spheres.
And so we end where we began, with a self portrait: the work a reflection of the artist, the artist reflected in his work.
You can view the Escher image gallery here including hands, eye and waterfall
http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/
p.s just realised the
— Aug 06, 2010
p.s just realised the relationship to the chair. I think I posted my comment at the same time as Quanta, and to be honest without the aid of my teenage tech wizard son, I would not be able to upload pictures to this site. He uploaded them to an image hosting site and then transported them. Plus filled in the html code for the images, too complicated for me.
Wow, I just sat down in my chair to catch up
— Aug 10, 2010
After meeting all my long lost evolver co-sporeganizers (and the HQ team (including Jennifer Palmer)) in a historically recursive context curiously called Heartland in the left half of NY which strangely evokes my hometown environment... The long drive has my rear end and legs kinda sore while reading this amazing... I can't even believe how happy I am! We got connected for real, yo! And I think the sky's the limit now.
Really, the Green Bus that drove evolvers from the Washington statue in NYC to Heartland is quantum possibly coming to your town soon. Probably with a bunch of merry co-evolvers on board!
We have begun to connect in many dimensions to evolve this emerging vision across all available networks. Strong themes were: gathering, cross-pollinating, and bringing ideas into spatial manifestation on the ground. This was a game-changing initiation, and I am exceedingly happy in my happy chair! It's quite abundantly obvious to me now that we are each long lost friends here.
In Lak'ech,
<3 River
An Owl on the Sun
— Aug 14, 2010
Sunspot 1093 now resembles an owl, as this photo posted at Spaceweather suggests:
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I believe we should be watching the Sun more closely for clues to what is going on in our solar system, and the geomagnetic effects we're seeing on earth - including large earthquakes. We've already hit 18 magnitude 7+ quakes this year - eight of them in the last couple of months alone - and that means we are set to far exceed the maximum of 18 mag 7+ quakes seen in a single year since the the depths of the last solar minimum 13 years ago. I have explored the solar activity/quake connection for several months now and I feel we need to be aware of what is possibly happening to our fragile planet, yet most information about the subject is being ignored or suppressed.
From the website Animal Totem: "Owls know when to move silently and when to be still, which makes them the keepers of secrets. These solitary birds don't feel the need to proclaim their presence to anyone until the timing is right. Owl comes to us when we need to open our eyes, and study the situation at hand. If we watch and listen with our inner selves we can figure out what is happening behind the scenes, and confront those who are trying to deceive us at the appropriate time."
Stace Tussel
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— Aug 24, 2010
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