I was hearing "Mein Zei", which a quick search of revealed this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_e-XkgWgKsc8/TPWZp-qQcQI/AAAAAAAAHtU/cmRoxuAftl4/s1600/Die+Gab%2527s+Nur+Einmal+2.jpg
Was ist das, Gabs? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:11 PM, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > I am hearing "Minds Eye", or maybe not. > > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Loads of stugg comes up on googling images related to the term 'Mind's >> Eye' - not surprisingly a lot of the stuff has an eye in it. I tend >> to run the 'eye' bit out in my pondering on what a mind's eye might >> be. Some former science colleagues better at maths than me used to >> try and describe 'visualisation' - how they could manipulate images of >> geometry involving complex shapes and transformations. I could never >> do this and even have trouble working out what happens to, say, door >> hinges if you turn the door upside down and round-a-bout. I could >> often 'guess' how a complex system of transformations would end up, >> but could never 'see the process' as some claimed. This was something >> of a handicap in some stochastic work with molecule shape. >> >> I'm watching an old Oliver film and have no sympathy with Oliver - all >> with the other kids and the brilliantly played evil roles. I often >> have a lot of difficulty 'seeing' what others are being suckered by in >> propaganda directly and instead a form of critique of the stuff >> arises. I really dislike, say, Huckleberry Finn being played by the >> rich director's all too clean kid. I have a cinematic daydreaming >> imagination, but no imaging comes from words when someone says 'table' >> - my sister 'sees' gargoyles if you say the word. >> >> I'm struck there is no 'eye' in mind's eye even though I might as well >> be in a cinema when daydreaming. Though one might ask if what I see >> 'in cinema' relies on past sight - though again I'm not usually >> 'seeing' recalled events. I find the artist's attempts at 'mind's >> eye' disappointing. >> >> I'm unsure how I notice so strongly that "economics" (a subject I >> teach with no enthusiasm) is just a 'smell of words' around and >> obvious failure in human cooperation always leading to a very small >> number amassing riches. It's like a gas keeping he truth-seeker at >> bay. We are as far from the double-helix in this as the tribe that >> denies paternity through sex, investing it instead in ghosts with the >> 'father role' played by maternal uncles. >> >> It's been my view for many years that argument fails except in very >> special circumstances. The Greeks knew this because equally powerful >> argument could be adduced for many different views. They invented a >> kind of "mind's eye" (see Pyhrronism) in which competing arguments >> could be assessed. This is rather too expert for me. I suspect that >> what we can't do is strip argument of its propaganda, and suspect >> again this is a matter of fear of violence in challenging 'deeply' >> held views - and further that these views are ill-considered dross. >> One can feel another danger here of the zealot and know-all. In my >> mind's eye argument comes with smells, emotions, incredulity, >> doubt,probability ... and the coldest, most lying voice of all is the >> disinfected smell of the objective voice. > > >
