Shannon McCarthy
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Hi Jeff,
Wow! What an encounter! You are blessed. A mother grizzly with her cub?! I would not expect many to come back from that able to tell the tale. There’s a lot there.
Long time ago I interviewed many people in South Africa. All kinds of people. I really liked almost every single person. What made them so dear? I thought and thought for a long time, trying to figure out what they each held in common, and could find only two things: a post-apartheid country and exposure to apex predators. I began to think about this more a few years back, pondering my own childhood by the swamp full of gators and later by the sea with the sharks. We knew we could be eaten. That does something to a person. You describe it wonderfully! I’m grateful you have this beautiful story to tell.
And it fits so nicely with how Iain says the LH grabs and gets, and the RH looks all around at the whole environment. When we are at risk of becoming prey, the emissary may only then cede to the real master.
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Hi Jeff,
Sure thing. Yes it is shocking to me too that this would get through all their creative, advertising, and managerial boards. Yikes!
If you look at the link Peter posted above, the page shows a reverse video by an artist that makes the whole thing come back to life, using the same footage backwards. A bit more inspiring!
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Ha! Oh gosh that is funny.
Speaking of jokes, there is one going around about small fish. If you hear it, please let minnow.
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“The Parallel Architecture on Language and Elsewhere”, 2023- just gave it a read- thanks for letting us know.
“We do not understand conceptual structures very well yet.” -Jackendoff
It all seemed pretty straight forward until he gets to the Spatial Structure part. I can see why you’d want to talk about his ideas on parallel architecture and maybe his thoughts on tonal music theory and its implications or overlap with the hemispheres! Nice little bit here:
“Further consideration suggests that Spatial Structure cannot be just a <i style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;”>visual representation. The size and shape of objects and their spatial layout can be determined haptically, that is, through the sense of touch. In addition, information about the spatial configuration of one’s body comes from proprioception (Lackner, 1988; Lackner & Dizio, 2000). All three of these—vision, hapsis, and proprioception—have to be correlated with each other in order to understand what is going on in physical space. This job belongs to Spatial Structure. Moreover, Spatial Structure is not just for perceiving: it also has to be used to plan action in the world.”
What part are you thinking about? I’m curious!
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Hi again Whit,
Jackendoff is new to me, thanks for the heads up. It looks like he has two great books out. Is it A User’s Guide to Thought and Meaning that you recommend, or his 2002 Foundations book?
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Thank you, Manuela, Bob, Peter, Christina, and Forest. I’m glad for the space we had together!
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Hi Matt!
I was excited to see your post with an Alex Grey painting. I like to go see him at the Chapel of the Sacred Mirrors in New York. And he makes the images for Tool! Yes I agree their work is incredible. Schism is my favorite!
Maynard, because he is a creative genius, has to know well how to move out of black and white thinking and into the surety of the human experience. I agree that the lyrics you shared convey it so beautifully.
It sounds like the journey of the westernized adult to me, as opposed to the childhood to adulthood journey. There’s a little joke about how three year olds are all “little philosophers” because they ask such extraordinary questions. I spend time with 3-5 year olds each weekend, and they stun me with the depth and nuance of their thoughts.
Great to read your thoughts about Tool and excited to see Alex Grey’s work here. Do you like his paintings?
🙂 Shannon
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Hi Gary,
I like reading your post. Thank you for the update- how lovely that living organisms show greater entailment power. A lot of good news here!
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Hi Peter!
“Compression of Life” 😞
I love that rewind version! How wonderful. Technology under the thumb of a robust value system- that is a hopeful image. Thanks!
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Hi Whit,
True enough. Well, I see a machine crushing beautiful meaningful things, and ‘replacing’ them with a flat computer. To me, it is an accurate narrative of the left hemisphere overpowering the right, showcasing its failure to comprehend what is beyond it. What is unique, precious, memorable, and human is destroyed by a machine to make a machine. In one minute it tells the terrible story.
I think public outcry for the arts is good. It demonstrates that we do still hold some things sacred.
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I agree, Chuck.
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Christina, Thanks for sharing that quotation and your questions. I like them. Yeah what would it look like?
I’m curious to hear more of his thoughts on that topic and yours too. I always wonder how ideas reach their moment and quicksilvery flow through a people. If I had to guess about the 3-5%, I’d guess it to be the top people in academia, corporations, policy-making, and government for the tipping point to work. Having met farmers and simple people in this world, I don’t think the beatific vision is lost on them. I think it’s lost on the most educated and powerful, sadly. But then there’s (possibly many?) would-be brilliants that hide their lights under a basket because of a hostile environment. Maybe that’s where the small percentage makes a big difference; first the status quo embankment is breached, then the river starts to rush.
I think it’s a lovely question to ponder, what it looks like for us personally to “really get” the message. I’m with you in that question.
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Bob, thank you! Yes that is helpful in London time. It looks like noon for me in New York City’s time. Thanks!
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Hi Iain,
The way Jung describes schizophrenia in his papers seems quite different from the modern definition. It seems like he saw it as an overwhelming flood of the unconscious, but not necessarily the tragic undoing of a person. Do you think Jung was talking about the same thing as when we say schizophrenia now?
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What time are we calling in on May 3, Peter? Somehow I’m always an hour off.