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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Brain and Culture
V.S. Ramachandran (Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Distinguished Professor with the Psychology Department and Neurosciences Program at the University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute) – lecture begins at … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, nature, psychology
Tagged cognition, E.O. Wilson, neuroscience, V.S. Ramachandran
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Going Down, Going Deep
Going Down – 14×11″, from a photograph, 2015, Stephen Calhoun – my symmetry experiments on tumblr bonus: Coral City from The Creators Project on Vimeo.
Teaching Cartoon, Cave Man
Caveman A caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman. Directed by Carl Gottlieb. Starring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid and Shelley Long. Dr. Puck’s Prejudicial Proposition Number One: If you step backward in … Continue reading
Posted in education, history, philosophy, psychological anthropology, sociology
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Hebrew Pairs & Opening Trunks
Excerpt from Opening Trunks, The Chuang Tzu, Chuangtse Translated by Yutang Lin [source] But nowadays any one can make the people strain their necks and stand on tiptoes by saying, “In such and such a place there is a … Continue reading
Posted in cultural contradictions, history, philosophy, self-knowledge
Tagged Chuangtse, Judaism, traditionalism
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Energizer Drone – Keeps On Bouncing
This evoked thoughts of Buckminster Fuller. Dymaxion Vehicle pdf of 1972 Playboy Interview with Buckminster Fuller
Generating Paradox – Glimpsing Some Pre-work
Once again my generous colleagues in the Experiential Learning Community of Practice (LinkedIn news and discussion feed) have invited me to present to members and anybody else who can find their way to quarterly virtual meeting. It takes place … Continue reading
Posted in experiential learning, folk psychology, my research, psychology
Tagged David Kolb
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Spelling Troll? Anyway, Happy Birthday to the Blog
I make it hard to interact with the blog and myself. You have to register to comment, and next your comment will await my moderation. I will allow any comment that is sincere. Very rarely does someone not comment on … Continue reading
A Round, A Hole
Some years ago, being with a camping party in the mountains, I returned from a solitary ramble to find everyone engaged in a ferocious metaphysical dispute, The corpus of the dispute was a squirrel -a live squirrel supposed to be … Continue reading
Posted in history, psychology, William James
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Anish Kapoor
Just as you can’t set out to make something beautiful, you can’t set out to make something spiritual. What you can do is recognise that it may be there. It normally has something to do with not having too much … Continue reading
Unafraid
GO Cuba from Joshua Morin on Vimeo. Our late mother Jean emphasized for decades that she believed Cuba would make a fine candidate for statehood, were we just to open up our relations all the way. I’ve always wanted to … Continue reading
Cold Baby
The studio on the third floor of our century home is rarely the warmest location in the house, but, whereas the first floor had settled in at 56–as our gas furnace just couldn’t keep up–the studio in the attic was … Continue reading
Posted in personal, visual experiments, my art
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Coincidentally Fragile
Confusions about probability cause probable errors. A possible conjunction supposes a chance of eventuation and has a chance of happening, yet after it has happened its chances of happening collapse to unity by virtue of the happening having occurred. … Continue reading
Posted in cultural contradictions, experiential learning, my research, Religion, science, serendipity
Tagged coincidence
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Revisualizing the Experiential Learning Cycle of David A. Kolb (I.)
I’ve been pondering the hidden polar dynamics of the learning cycle of my friend, colleague and softball teammate David Kolb. By definition those implicit yet ‘out of sight’ dynamics are anchored by various factors which instantiate or otherwise ramify … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, analytic(al) psychology, experiential learning, psychology
Tagged cognition, constructivism, cybernetics, enactvism, schema
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“Once is good!” Your February Rollercoaster
Drops: Context: Imagination
Moon, Other Side, Sound
Moon Gathering Eleanor Wilner, 1937 And they will gather by the well, its dark water a mirror to catch whatever stars slide by in the slow precession of the skies, the tilting dome of time, over all, a light mist … Continue reading
Posted in music, poetry, psychological anthropology, science
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Maslow + Cube-O-Probe Mashup
Right hand column is what I term a totem. Cube were randomly drawn in a bottom-to-top order. The cubes were next placed against the basic classes of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This creates novel, and other types, of pairings. Question … Continue reading
Posted in experiential learning, psychological anthropology, serendipity
Tagged enactivism, polarity
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