At 08:40 AM 9/14/2007, David wrote: >Hi Joe/all >What role do ideas play in our experience? Derrida suggests >ideas/language require writing, and begin with writing. I agree with >this. Ideas are our way of making sense of our experience and >differentiating objects and other patterns out of our whole >experience. How do we seperate the ground from the sky? Well we draw >a line, a form of writing, between the two. It is an imaginary line >and we call it the horizon. We do the same when we differentiate the >nose from the face. We can then imagine the nose on its own without >a face, we have drawn a line round the nose and then cut round it in >our imagination. So imagination is the great power we use to make >sense of our experience/s. What is this power? A power that enables >not just to take experience as it is given but to enrich experience >and evolve? Seems to me it shows that we are dealing not only with a >constantly changing environment open to DQ, but that we too are a >dynamic complex of evolving or dis-evolving patterns open to DQ. >Having ideas, enriching your experience, taking on new ideas from >others, is the DQ of human being. Regards David M
Greetings, This was very beautifully written. Marsha Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
