atw: Re: de argentum defence

  • From: "Chris lofting" <lofting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:52:00 +1100

 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Clarke
> Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2009 10:07 AM
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> Subject: atw: Re: de argentum defence
> 
> Poor diddums.
> You may note that I criticised your puff for its total lack of facts.
> You then moved to ad hominem attack. You stick to 'features' 
> and I'll stick to facts.
> %&*% off, to paraphrase Janice's offering..
> Brian. 
> 

oh dear - you grumpy old man you! Time to retire dude - the mindset of the
1950s no longer applies and if you refuse to update then it is the scrapheap
for you!

Some 'lite' reading for your armchair days (based on your comments about my
so called 'neologisms'):

From G. Spencer-Brown"Laws of Form" EP Dutton :

"The theme of this book is that a universe comes into being when a space is
severed or taken apart. The skin of a living
organism cuts off an outside from an inside. So does the circumference of a
circle in a plane. By tracing the way we
represent such a severance, we can begin to reconstruct, with an accuracy
and coverage that appear almost uncanny,
the basic forms underlying linguistic, mathematical, physical, and
biological science, and can begin to see how the
familiar laws of our own experience follow inexorably from the original act
of severance.
.Although all forms, and thus all universes, are possible, and any
particular form is mutable, it becomes evident that
the laws relating such forms are the same in any universe" p xxix G.
Spencer-Brown"Laws of Form" EP Dutton
(1972,1979)

and :

"It becomes apparent that if certain facts about our common experience of
perception, or what we might call the inside
world, can be revealed by an extended study of what we call, in contrast,
the outside world, then an equally extended
study of this inside world will reveal, in turn, the facts first met with in
the world outside: for what we approach, in
either case, from one side or the other, is the common boundary between
them" p xxv "Laws of Form"

This applies to how we think and so brings out different forms of thought
mapping to the biases of our brains covering wholeness (symmetry), partness
(anti-symmetry) and mediation (asymmetry). For more then see the following -
by then you should be more up-to-date in understanding how 'in here' works
and so how we can use such information to map social development as well as
psychological development etc etc etc and in doing so identity styles of
thought fitting different audiences etc:

Basics of asymmetry/symmetry, brain dynamics and information processing:

Rosen, J., (2008)"Symmetry Rules : How Science and Nature are Founded on
Symmetry" Springer
Muller, S., (2007)"Asymmetry : The Foundation of Information" Springer
Hugdahl,K., & Davidson, R.,(eds)(2004)"The Asymmetrical Brain" MITP
Kauffman, L., H., & Varela, F,." Form dynamics". Journal of Social and
Biological Structures (1980), 171-206.
Kauffman, L., H.,." Self-reference and recursive forms." Journal of Social
and Biological Structures (1987), 53-72.
Zaidel, E., & Iacoboni, M., (2003)"The Parallel Brain : The Cognitive
Neuroscience of the Corpus Callosum" MITP
Ivry, R.B., & Robertson, L.C., (1998) "The Two Sides of Perception" MITP
Matte Blanco I., (1991)"The Unconscious as Infinite Sets", Karnac Books,
(originally published 1975) (Covers asymmetry vs symmetry thinking and
associated differences in use of logic)
Matte Blanco I., (1998) "Thinking, Feeling, and Being" Routledge
Jung, C. G., (1971) "Psychological Types" Routledge (covers William James
distinctions of directed/no-directed and change to directed/mythic)
Jung, C. G., (1984) "Two Kinds of Thinking" IN "Symbols of Transformation"
Routledge (covers directed vs mythic thinking)
Kelly G.A. (1955, 1991)"The Psychology of Personal Constructs Vol 1"
Norton/Routledge (covers use of layered dichotomies to derive meanings)
Kelly, G.A. (1969) A mathematical approach to psychology. Maher, B. Ed.
Clinical Psychology and Personality: The Selected Papers of George Kelly.
pp.94-113. New York: Wiley.
Parsons, L.M., & Osherton, D., (2001) "New Evidence for Distinct Right and
Left Brain Systems for Deductive versus Probabilistic Reasoning" Cerebral
Cortex, Vol. 11, No. 10, 954-965, October 2001
Oaksford, M., and Chater, N., (2001) "The probabilistic approach to human
reasoning" IN Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol 5. No8 August 2001: 349-357
Scott-Kelso, J.A., & Engstrom, D.A., (2006)"The Complementary Nature" MITP
Spencer-Brown, G., (1979) "Laws of Form" Dutton
Wallace,A.F.C.,(1961) "On Being Just Complicated Enough" Proc. of N.A.S. 47
(1961): 458-464
Watts, J.D., (1999)"Small Worlds" Princeton
Rogers, L., & Andrew, R., (2002)"Comparative Vertebrate Lateralisation"
Cambridge
Peitgen, Jurgens, & Saupe (2004)"Chaos and Fractals : New Frontiers of
Science(2nd Edition)" Springer (especially chapter 6 : "The Chaos Game: How
Randomness Creates Deterministic Shapes")

Some of the backup material covering in-depth considerations of brain-mind
dynamics and on into social networks etc:

Banich, M.T., "Hemispheric Interaction" IN p 270 Hugdahl,K., & Davidson,
R.,(eds)(2004)"The Asymmetrical Brain" MITP
Banich,M., & Karol (1992) "The sum of the parts does not equal the whole:
Evidence from bihemispheric processing" Journal of Experimental Psychology
:Human Perception and Performance 18, 763-784
Friedman,A & Polson,M.,(1981)"The hemispheres as independent resource
systems: limited capacity processing and cerebral specialisation" Journal of
Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance 7, 1031-1058
Passarotti, A.M., Banich, M.T., Sood, R. K. & Wang, J. M. (2002) "A
generalized role of interhemispheric interaction under attentionally
demanding conditions: evidence from the auditory and tactile modality"
Neuropsychologia 40 (2002) 1082-1096
Lomber, S.G., & Malhotra, S., (2008)"Double dissociation of 'what' and
'where' processing in auditory cortex" Nature Neuroscience 11, 609 - 616
(2008)
Monaghan, P., & Pollmann, S., (2003) "Division of Labor Between the
Hemispheres for Complex but Not Simple Tasks: An Implemented Connectionist
Model" Journal of Experimental Psychology: 2003, Vol. 132, No. 3, 379-399
Buzsaki, G., (2006)"Rhythms of the Brain" OUP
Thompson, E., (2007)"Mind in Life : Biology, Phenomenology, and the Science
of Mind" Belknap (gets into autopoiesis etc)
Bradley, R.T. (1987) "Charisma and Social Structure : A Study of Love and
Power, Wholeness and Transformation" New York : Paragon House
Bradley, R.T., & Pribram, K.(1998) "Communication and Stability in Social
Collectives" IN Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems 21(1):29-81
Goldberg, E.(2001)"The Executive Brain : Frontal Lobes and the Civilised
Mind" OUP
Hurford, J.R., (2007)"The Origins of Meaning: Language in the Light of
Evolution" OUP
Kircher, T., & David, A., (eds)(2003)"The SELF in Neuroscience and
Psychiatry" CUP
Posner, M.I., (Ed) (2004) "Cognitive neuroscience of attention" The Guilford
Press
Robertson, L. C. & Delis, D. C. (1986). "Part/whole processing in unilateral
braindamaged patients: Dysfunction of hierarchical organization".
Neuropsychologia, 24, 363-370.
Sampson (2005) "The Language Instinct Debate"
Scott-Kelso, J.A., (1995) "Dynamic Patterns" MITP
Watts, J.D., (2003)"Six Degrees" Heinemann
Barabasi, A-L (2002)"Linked : The New Science of Networks" Perseus
Strogatz, S., (2003)"Sync" Allen Lane
Ball, P., (2004)"Critical Mass : How one thing leads to another"
Heinemannnes


OTOH you could ignore all of the above and just play with the questions in
the Emotional I Ching post working through the introduction (on the website
as a .pdf).

Chris
http://www.emotionaliching.com


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