small cloud box - peter alexander (1966)
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Can a soul, a conscousness, an “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? If it can, then how can we udnerstand baffling emergence?
Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic seething sout of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call “symbols” The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call “I”. An “I” is a strange loop in a brain where symbolic and physical levels feed back into each other and flip causality upside down, with symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse.
Music of Gounod - Annie Besant, Thought Form
Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930) - William Empson
1.The first type of ambiguity is the metaphor, that is, when two things are said to be alike which have different properties. This concept is similar to that of metaphysical conceit.
2.Two or more meanings are resolved into one. Empson characterizes this as using two different metaphors at once.
3.Two ideas that are connected through context can be given in one word simultaneously.
4.Two or more meanings that do not agree but combine to make clear a complicated state of mind in the author.
5.When the author discovers his idea in the act of writing. Empson describes a simile that lies halfway between two statements made by the author.
6.When a statement says nothing and the readers are forced to invent a statement of their own, most likely in conflict with that of the author.
7.Two words that within context are opposites that expose a fundamental division in the author’s mind.
Merchants’ National Bank (1914) - Louis Sullivan
Edgar Martins.
Enter The Void
The Muqarnas Dome of the Hall of the Two Sisters in the Alhambra in Granada
Serlio, Dwelling for a King
Consciousness is a wonderful thing, but it initially presents the world to us as if reality were physically located in our heads. It takes training to see that consciousness is a story, and the natural world works independently from it.
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