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From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: RANT & Three basic realms
> Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
> [snip]
> > the terms denotatitve and
> > connotative are much older that Semiotics and have been torn form their
> > roots by philosophers and scientists who believe that they can replace
the
> > pleasure principle of Poetic Art with the science of communication.
They
> > are the ones who end up using math and have orgasms over the beauty of
Math
> > as opposed to Beethoven. I think they just have tin ears.
>
> But surely we should not judge too harshly any human
> activity which both: (1) leads to orgasms, and (2) DOES NOT
> HURT ANYONE. Yes?
Just as long as they don't insist that their art is the only art that has
significance and that everything else led up to their great discovery and is
therefore an anachronism.
>
> [snip]
> > Per-form-ance means to make the form or structure clear to
> > an audience in the act of dialogue. Reflection in Action, as defined
by
> > the late Donald Schoen is what Artists do in the act of expanding the
> > communication of base forms into a dialogue between audience and
performer.
>
> What a shame my school tor-mentors did not understand this!
What does the prefix "tor" mean in this case?
>
> They thought that works of art were opportunities to
> test each student on how well that student could
> recall Who? What? When? Where? and more facts, after
> solitary study of a text with no help ("cheating"!)
> from anyone else.
Bad teaching and poor pedagogy is so rampant that it is a wonder that anyone
survives. In Bloomsbury's "Guide to Human Thought, Ideas that shaped the
world" you can find almost everything listed alphabetically including
Information Theory and the Theory of Codes as well as the "biggies" like
Science, Math, Music, etc. but no place can you find the word "Pedagogy" or
Education even. It is as if they didn't exist as a system of thought and
had no structure or learning process. That is the way it is treated in
life as well. Why DO a school if you don't know the difference between an
instructor and an educator and pedagogy is just a root word for pedant?
> > Now, do any of you know anything about Information Theory and if so,
could
> > you explain it simply because I'm not sure I can.
> [snip]
>
> I do not understand information theory (i.e., "the math"), but
> I believe its purpose is to compute the maximum number
> of bits per second which can reliably be transmitted over
> a noisy data channel. Since most human misunderstanding
> takes place between persons who have already gotten past
> data transmission, acoustic or visual signal reception, and
> even semantic decoding, I will state as a strong hypothesis:
>
> INFORMATION THEORY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HUMAN COMMUNICATION,
> AND THE PEOPLE WHO THINK IT DOES DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT
> HUMAN COMMUNICATION IS.
>
Nope. Genius is essential for creative breakthroughs but does not
guarantee such. Information theory is just a way of looking at the
structure of the system known as human communication. As for human
communication. We all sit blindfolded around the elephant on that one.
However, I would enjoy someone else or better still you take another look at
Information Theory or the Theory of Codes as a basis for examination of the
Three Basic Realms of Harry and Company.
Harry I'm still looking for a denotative definition of your nouns and active
verbs in your assumptions because I have visceral reactions to your
statements but in truth I have no conscious idea of what you mean since your
words are your own. Contextual descriptions are just hints and not nearly
specific enough for examination of a word. A number maybe in a math
formula but not a word. Words are not Math formulas. They are
something else. A symbol that goes to the root of our being and even
carries meaning and power across space. Imagine how important 2 is.
You remember 2 don't you? But if I say Jerusalem. That is indeed
different and you have to know which Jerusalem I am speaking of, otherwise
we will fight over it for 4,000 years.
Hi Selma,
Regards
Ray Evans Harrell, performing artist
New York City,
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