“So I am always between two currents of thought, first the material difficulties, turning round and round to make a living; and second, the study of color. I am always in hope of making a discovery there, to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of a light tone...
“As long as Knecht permitted the flow of inner images to come without direction, as they do, like dreams, in the initial stage of relaxation, there were two principal scenes which emerged from the stream and lingered, two pictures or symbols, two parables. In the first Knecht, as a boy, followed the Master along a variety of ways. The Music Master strode before him as his guide, and each time he turned around and showed...
From Wikipedia on The Vitruvian Man: “This image exemplifies the blend of art and science during the Renaissance and provides the perfect example of Leonardo’s keen interest in proportion. In addition, this picture represents a cornerstone of Leonardo’s attempts to relate man to nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica online states, “Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his...
In Squigglespeak posts, we talk about the squiggle sign (~), and give examples of its use by ourselves and others… The following excerpt comes from the article by Fred Cummins, Deep Affordance: Seeing the Self in the World: Fred Cummins – Cognitive Science Programme – University College Dublin “Let us now consider the Umwelt of the E. Coli bacterium in this cartoonishly simple sketch. As we have...
CONCEPT – Convection is a mode of energy transfer that involves movement of material in the middle, as opposed to thermal conduction or diffusion of matter. The matter is advected (carried-driving, but these terms are in fact unfit) by at least one fluid. In, individual coordinating elements begins to move spontaneously in groups near a heat ‘source’ expand, become less dense and rise, and those of the...
RICHARD STROHMAN – “The 20th century is well named as the Century of the Gene. Biologists focused on establishing linkages of genotype (the genetic composition of the organism) to phenotype (what the organism looks and behaves like) and, in relationship to public health, to the mechanisms by which the phenotypes of premature senescence, disease, and death are encoded in the genome. All of the essential data have...
WOLFGANG PAULI – “To us, the only acceptable point of view appears to be one that recognizes both sides of reality—the quantitative and the qualitative, the physical and the psychical—as compatible with each other, and can embrace them simultaneously.” “Shall we be able to realise, on a higher plane, alchemy’s old dream of psycho-physical unity, by the creation of a unified conceptual foundation...
Among other ways of saying it, the complementary nature is about grounding yin~yang relationships in a new principle of how the human brain works. For example, on the one hand people think the brain works as an integrated organ where information from different parts of the brain is integrated to form a representation of an object or a plan of action. On the other hand, people think of the brain as a group of segregated...
What follows is an excerpt from The Complementary Nature, where we outline a novel learning paradigm. It is framed in a subset of the complementary pairs (squiggles) of coordination dynamics. The complementary aspects of each of these squiggles is in itself a well known phenomenon in learning (or any adaptive process). However, it is often the case that one aspect is considered more important or fundamental then the other,...
INNA SEMETSKY – “I cite Kelso and Engstrøm who use the sign “~” to pinpoint the relation: “In the case of human beings, complex nonlinear self-organizing systems of energy~matter have managed to evolve to the point of organizing a sense of self~other” (Kelso and Engstrøm 2006: 253). Deleuze’s transformational pragmatics of self-becoming-other (a self~other relation) takes place at the limit, and the...
“Perfect defenses are not always an advantage. Complete protection can become a hindrance for it limits you in other ways.” House Harkonnen, From The Dune Series — Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson “Body and mind are two phenomena, observed under different conditions, but of one and the same ultimate reality. Body and mind are aspects of the living being. They operate within a peculiar...
