On Jun 29, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Wesley Smith <wesley.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The aspect of Bersgon that I was thinking about though was the concept > of duration, particularly that of the cerebral interval (the time > between a received movement and an executed movement), which generates > perception. Yet perception is both matter (made of up of neurons, > cells, chemical networks, sensors, ...) and the perception of matter. > It's a self-loop of something perceiving itself. We see the same kind > of self-loop pattern in von Foerster's Cybernetics of Epistemology and > Notes on an Epistemology of Living Things where computation is > understood as com + putare or thinking together. "Thinking together" is a really interesting thought. Have you ever read Minsky's Society of Mind? I'm wanting to quote it but I lent my copy to a curious stranger two days ago, and I don't want to misquote, so I'm just going to have to recommend it:) It's one of my favorite books to lend people. They always come back with stars in their eyes. _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
