[lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a story ...
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 14:59:26 +0900
Some here might be interested in
*Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from
Matter<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393049914?ie=UTF8&tag=thneyoreofbo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393049914>
*
by Terrence W. Deacon
Deacon's theory for how consciousness emerges involves what he calls
"absentia," things that might be but are not yet, goals for self-sustaining
systems to achieve.
Cheers,
John
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:38 PM, <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Further to David Ritchie's:
>
>
> It's a cliche in art that the negative space is compositionally as
>> important as the positive space.
>>
>
> The 'compositionally' there reminds me of another art form in which
> 'negative space' plays a significant role: music - in which the 'negative
> space' is termed 'silence'. (This point has been brought to our attention
> nowhere more strongly than in John Cage's 4'33".)
>
> My definition of music has always acknowledged this: the aesthetic
> arrangement of periods of modulated sounds and silence.
>
> And 'silence' - metaphorically speaking - plays an essential role in
> George Mackay Brown's 'The Poet'.
>
> Therefore he no more troubled the pool of silence
> But put on mask and cloak,
> Strung a guitar
> And moved among the folk.
> Dancing they cried,
> 'Ah, how our sober islands
> Are gay again, since this blind lyrical tramp
> Invaded the Fair.'
>
> Under the last dead lamp
> When all the dancers and masks had gone inside
> His cold stare
> Returned to its true task, the interrogation of silence.
>
> Chris Bruce,
> ,
> (I hope I've pronounced that correctly)
> in Kiel, Germany
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- References:
- [lit-ideas] Grice on the alethic
- [lit-ideas] Re: Grice on the alethic
- [lit-ideas] It is worth a theorem, which is not the p minimal adequacy, since as it is, it is inconsistent. Hence Alfred Tajtelbaum, known to the ignorant of history as "tarski" proved that there exists a hierarchy such that the minimal adequacy is satisfied. That is in the "concept of truth in L" by the way studying helps.
- [lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a theorem, which is not the p minimal adequacy, since as it is, it is inconsistent. Hence Alfred Tajtelbaum, known to the ignorant of history as "tarski" proved that there exists a hierarchy such that the minimal adequacy is satisfied. That is in the "concept of truth in L" by the way studying helps.
- [lit-ideas] Re: It is worth a theorem, which is not the p minimal adequacy, since as it is, it is inconsistent. Hence Alfred Tajtelbaum, known to the ignorant of history as "tarski" proved that there exists a hierarchy such that the minimal adequacy is satisfied. That is in the "concept of truth in L" by the way studying helps.
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