Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile/ the mind is a muscle

2013-07-06 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hi all Terry replies that he is out there hoping to catch more glimpses of the developing paradigm there (why going to Venice?), the externalized memory system of velocitized selves, the cognitive distributive system. Meanwhile, Terry

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile/ the mind is a muscle: mere note

2013-07-05 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- I think the body learns to move and will know what it will have done. And with it the mind knows or learns to comprehend how it moves and thinks. For me, the entrainment has to do with rhythms of understanding or intuiting and listening.

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile/ the mind is a muscle

2013-07-04 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all following up on Terry Flaxton's postings, especially his suggestion to give emphasis to practical investigations of consciousness rather than resist the increasing uselessness (?) of theory and ratiocinatory construction

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile/ the mind is a muscle: mere note

2013-07-04 Thread simon
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- so much of this seems bad abstraction, yet I'm drawn in by Johannes's image to say, the stories we tell make up the body - but I don't like stories so perhaps I should say, the plots we make thicken as the body - since we don't yet

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile/ the mind is a muscle

2013-07-04 Thread Terry Flaxton
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thank you Johannes. Firstly I'd like to say that I see all of these kinds of discussions as narratives which can be adopted or discarded in relation to perceived worth - and that is a completely relativistic judgement. So we're already

Re: [-empyre-] Resistance is Futile/ the mind is a muscle

2013-07-04 Thread Christina Spiesel
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear All, A couple of responses -- I will attempt to knit them but will probably not succeed. I asked my husband, the pediatrician, this morning whether the Monsessori teacher that Johannes described [and what a wonderful morning