Thanks Max, This seems interesting, maybe useful - I will keep it in mind (free flowing for now) Annie
On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 9:57 PM Max Herman <maxnmher...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I like the use of nonrecursion, if that is not too off base. > > In neuroscience, the Default Mode Network is interesting. It's a network > in each of our brains that kind of "kicks in" during resting state, perhaps > integrating, perhaps involving mindfulness. I'm not expert at all but > gleaned some of this from Olaf Sporns' 2011 "Networks if the Brain" which a > friend recently recommended to me. > > The DMN it was recently learned also may have a role in active state for > cognition of self and situation of self. > > I can't really articulate this very well but I think the art event will so > look forward to it. > > Perhaps this quote from Sporns can help me: "Great progress > notwithstanding, neuroscience still cannot answer the 'big questions' about > mind and intelligence. Consequently, most cognitive scientists continue to > hold the position that intelligence is fundamentally the work of symbolic > processing, carried out in rule-based computational architectures whose > function can be formally described in ways that are entirely independent of > their physical realization. If cognition is largely symbolic in nature, > then its neural substrate is little more than an inconsequential detail, > revealing nothing that is of essence about the mind. Naturally, there is > much controversy on the subject." (Networks of the Brain, page 179.) > > The ideas about the DMN are page 176:. "The relationship of task-evoked > brain activations with resting-state networks has been documented....[There > is] significant overlap between brain regions identified as centrally > involved in social cognitive processes and the brain's default > network....This suggests the idea that the physiological baseline of the > brain is related to a 'psychological baseline,' a mode of cognition that is > directed internally rather than being externally driven and that is > concerned with self and social context." > > Page 181: "Cognition is a network phenomenon.... > Yet...[parallel distributed processing oriented models'] utility as models > of actual neural processes was limited since their computational paradigms > often imposed narrow constraints on the types of network structures and > dynamics that could be implemented." > > To help myself understand and integrate Sporns' ideas, it helps me to > include Bohm's ideas in "On Dialogue" (1996) about "non-occupation" and > "interoception of thought," as well as free-flowing non-determinative > shared information groups. This recipe then requires that I add James > Austin's ideas from his 1998 book "Zen and the Brain," which works better > for me somehow if done via his first book, from 1979, "Chase, Chance, and > Creativity." Then to add a final missing compass-point I try to include > Calvino's "Six Memos fro the Next Millennium" from 1985 which argues on > page 124 that the novel is a network and the self is a network. > > Sorry for missing italics and typos, hand-typing on phone with one thumb. > > It helps me to keep the physical copies of the four books mentioned close > by, like bricks or stones. Looking around the room, they are in order > left-to-right and high-to-low Calvino, Austin, Bohm, Sporns; correction, > Calvino, Bohm, Austin, Sporns. > > Somewhat related, I've been trying to think about an undergraduate > curricular concentration in Network Studies and haven't found much yet. Is > anyone doing this in a concerted way, or, anticlimactically, everyone, > since years ago? :) > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on > behalf of Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > *Sent:* Saturday, September 21, 2019 6:41 AM > *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > *Cc:* Annie Abrahams <bram....@gmail.com> > *Subject:* Re: [NetBehaviour] distant feeling - resisting speed - you are > welcome to join > > no Ruth people online won't hear the sound file at all > only people in Malte in realspace will hear it while watching the people > online busy distanced feeling and resisting speed > > afterwards we will make a video out of the screenrecording and the > audiofile > > > > > On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 12:47 PM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > Annie, > Does this mean that those people who join online will hear the sound file > in the room in Malta? > Beautiful recursion! > :) > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 2:26 PM Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > Next *Thursday 26/09 2019 at 18h30 Paris time* you are welcome to join us > for a session of distanced feeling. > > Distant FeelingS a series of online webcam meetings trying to experience > each other’s presence *eyes closed and no talking*. > Distant FeelingS an ever-changing re-enactment of our intra-action with > machines. > Distant FeelingS creates an online communality while resisting the speed > of daily live and producing uninteresting data for AI? > You need to install the zoom <https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting> > application on your device and on the 26th connect at 6:25 pm Paris time to > meeting no *3210554238. * > At t=0 we set a clock and close our eyes. > > *Distant FeelingS #6* will be projected live during the opening > ceremonies of Video Vortex > <http://networkcultures.org/videovortex/video-vortex-12/> Malta. > The session will last 15 min. > In Malta there will be one onstage participant. During the session the > audience in Malta will hear a soundfile: a textcollection of past > participant reactions spoken by *Ruth Catlow* and > > *Marc Garrett. It would be lovely to feel some of you online next > Thursday.* > (btw online there is no soundfile - we will publish it later together with > the recording of the session) > > "Looking" forward > Annie > > ps: > *Articles*: > *Preconditions for Online Participation > <https://aabrahams.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/abrahams_annie_paicfin.pdf>* > for PAIC (2018) > *Learn together what it means to be connected* > <https://www.academia.edu/40052680/Learn_together_what_it_means_to_be_connected> > my chapter in * Cyposium the Book* (2014) and > *Trapped to Reveal - On webcam mediated communication and Collaboration > <https://www.academia.edu/3564683/Trapped_to_Reveal_-_On_webcam_mediated_Communication_and_collaboration>* > (2012) published in JAR #2 > now all three on academia. > > *Sound:* > ConstallationsOuverture > <https://soundcloud.com/annie-abrahams/constallationsouverture> for Radio > Play #7. Played live online Sunday 25 Aug. 7pm UTC+01 2019 via > channingtatum. > Mixage: Annie Abrahams. > Voices: Annie Abrahams, Alix Desaubliaux, Pascale Barret. > Laughs: Alice Lenay, Gwendoline Samidoust, Alix Desaubliaux, Annie > Abrahams and Carin Klonowski. > Music: "Ouverture 14" by Jan de Weille. > > > More photos > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/bramorg/albums/72157709880218681/with/48373432186/> > by Peter Westenberg of the ConstallationS event at ISELP > <https://constallations.hotglue.me/?ISELP> Brussels last Mai. > > *Upcoming 12/10* Performance *XD,^_^,:3,:-D*, Annie Abrahams, Pascale > Barret, Alix Desaubliaux, Alice Lenay, Carin Klonowski et Gwendoline > Samidoust. *10/10 14h30 CDN*. Table ronde. *Entre virtuel et incarné, > quelles innovations sociales et écologiques ? * > 7-12/10 festival Magdalena Montpellier > <http://theatredelaremise.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/MAGDALENAMF19-ProgrammeWeb.pdf> > . > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > >
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