Thanks Max,
This seems interesting, maybe useful - I will keep it in mind (free flowing
for now)
Annie
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 9:57 PM Max Herman wrote:
>
> I like the use of nonrecursion, if that is not too off base.
>
> In neuroscience, the Default Mode Network is interesting. It's a network
> in each of our brains that kind of "kicks in" during resting state, perhaps
> integrating, perhaps involving mindfulness. I'm not expert at all but
> gleaned some of this from Olaf Sporns' 2011 "Networks if the Brain" which a
> friend recently recommended to me.
>
> The DMN it was recently learned also may have a role in active state for
> cognition of self and situation of self.
>
> I can't really articulate this very well but I think the art event will so
> look forward to it.
>
> Perhaps this quote from Sporns can help me: "Great progress
> notwithstanding, neuroscience still cannot answer the 'big questions' about
> mind and intelligence. Consequently, most cognitive scientists continue to
> hold the position that intelligence is fundamentally the work of symbolic
> processing, carried out in rule-based computational architectures whose
> function can be formally described in ways that are entirely independent of
> their physical realization. If cognition is largely symbolic in nature,
> then its neural substrate is little more than an inconsequential detail,
> revealing nothing that is of essence about the mind. Naturally, there is
> much controversy on the subject." (Networks of the Brain, page 179.)
>
> The ideas about the DMN are page 176:. "The relationship of task-evoked
> brain activations with resting-state networks has been documented[There
> is] significant overlap between brain regions identified as centrally
> involved in social cognitive processes and the brain's default
> networkThis suggests the idea that the physiological baseline of the
> brain is related to a 'psychological baseline,' a mode of cognition that is
> directed internally rather than being externally driven and that is
> concerned with self and social context."
>
> Page 181: "Cognition is a network phenomenon
> Yet...[parallel distributed processing oriented models'] utility as models
> of actual neural processes was limited since their computational paradigms
> often imposed narrow constraints on the types of network structures and
> dynamics that could be implemented."
>
> To help myself understand and integrate Sporns' ideas, it helps me to
> include Bohm's ideas in "On Dialogue" (1996) about "non-occupation" and
> "interoception of thought," as well as free-flowing non-determinative
> shared information groups. This recipe then requires that I add James
> Austin's ideas from his 1998 book "Zen and the Brain," which works better
> for me somehow if done via his first book, from 1979, "Chase, Chance, and
> Creativity." Then to add a final missing compass-point I try to include
> Calvino's "Six Memos fro the Next Millennium" from 1985 which argues on
> page 124 that the novel is a network and the self is a network.
>
> Sorry for missing italics and typos, hand-typing on phone with one thumb.
>
> It helps me to keep the physical copies of the four books mentioned close
> by, like bricks or stones. Looking around the room, they are in order
> left-to-right and high-to-low Calvino, Austin, Bohm, Sporns; correction,
> Calvino, Bohm, Austin, Sporns.
>
> Somewhat related, I've been trying to think about an undergraduate
> curricular concentration in Network Studies and haven't found much yet. Is
> anyone doing this in a concerted way, or, anticlimactically, everyone,
> since years ago? :)
>
>
>
> --
> *From:* NetBehaviour on
> behalf of Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, September 21, 2019 6:41 AM
> *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org>
> *Cc:* Annie Abrahams
> *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] distant feeling - resisting speed - you are
> welcome to join
>
> no Ruth people online won't hear the sound file at all
> only people in Malte in realspace will hear it while watching the people
> online busy distanced feeling and resisting speed
>
> afterwards we will make a video out of the screenrecording and the
> audiofile
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 12:47 PM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
> Annie,
> Does this mean that those people who join online will hear the sound file
> in the room in Malta?
> Beautiful recursion!
> :)
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 2:26 PM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
> Next *Thursday 26/09 2019 at 18h30 Paris time* you are welcome to join us
> for a session of distanced feeling.
>
> Distant FeelingS a series of online webcam meetings trying to experience
> each other’s presence *eyes closed and no talking*.
> Distant FeelingS an ever-changing re-enac
