Replying to Leonardo's Miracles Fragment 5 LO25544
Dear & Loving Sajeela;-)
>My Love, You are edging into enlightenment, sure as the sun rises in the
>skies. I have snipped what I think sounds like something my spiritual
>Master would have said, including that his discourses always were
>preceded by a disciple's question. Loving you loving you loving you,
"In conclusion, we have proposed a theory of pattern perception that can
explain how patterns generate meaning in the environment. Although this
theory is entirely general, it was applied here to discuss pavements. A
strictly utilitarian approach to pavements requires no sign of any promise
of destination or completion that attaches meaning to built forms and
spaces. When the environment becomes more complex, the pavement becomes
the guarantee that the environment is planned to embody destinations and
connections. Pavements as a definition of space represent the highest
order of mapping between an architectural theme and a theme that the human
mind can understand. Meaning in the pavement thus allows one to "know" the
place without seeing all of it."
From, Pavements as Embodiments of Meaning for a Fractal Mind. Terry M.
Mikiten, Nikos A. Salingaros and Hing-Sing Yu
A thought is like such a pavement, A snowflake is like such a pavement, a
sunbeam is like such a pavement, an equation is like such a pavement, a
child is like such a pavement, a 'rich picture' is like such a pavement,
you are like such a pavement. At some last nominal step all the pavements
become a desert, home. The sun no longer rises and falls, light is
omnipresent, there are no shadows and there is nothing left;-) (I am
winking at Master Leonardo) to paint.
In his essay The Range of Imagination, David Bohm asks, -"How, then, can
thought respond to a problem or a difficulty without being dominated by an
irrelevant, confusing and generally destructive mechanical pattern and
reaction? Evidently, what is needed for this is a quality of insight going
beyond any particular fixed form of reaction and associated reflexive
thought. This insight must be free of conditioning to previously existing
patterns, otherwise it will, of course, ultimately be just an extension of
mechanical reaction. Rather, it has to be fresh and new, creative and
original. --And thus whenever there is a difficult problem, the mind is
able, if necessary, to drop the old categories and to create new forms or
rational and imaginative insight, which now serve to guide thought along
new lines that may be necessary for resolving the problem. It is
implicitly accepted in a large part of our common notions that
intelligence is an extension of thought. Regarded as a sort of 'base' or
'ground' on which in turns it operates. It cannot be too strongly
emphasized here that what is being suggested is that intelligence does not
arise primarily out of thought. Rather, the deep source of intelligence is
the unknown and indefinable totality (whole;-) from which all perception
originates. When these are absent, thought quickly gets lost in confusion.
Clearly then, intelligence is not to be regarded as a result of
accumulated knowledge or as a technique. [It is non-linear and generative
a multiversa, multidimensional, polyphonic, recursing and perhaps even,
yes, 'sin of sins' in 'consulting' circlesâ^Ŕ¦complex! ] --With the right
quality of mental energy [freeenergy;-)] insight and skill, the art of
intelligent perception may arise [emerge;-)] without getting lost in the
fixity of categories that leads to irresolvable confusion [in the
unceasing movement]. And so it may perhaps be said that it is just in such
creative perception of disharmony in the process of thought, that man may
come upon the deepest harmony that is open to him."
Marginalia folio 112 recto Codex Madrid dated November, 30th 1504, " The
night of St Andrew, I finally found the quadrature of the circle; and as
the light of the candle and the night and the paper on which I was writing
were coming to an end, it was completed; at the end of the hour." [ Alas
and of course he had not;-( ]
It was I believe St. John of the Cross who first said we should have to go
by a way we know not...to come to a place we have not.
Another 'letting go?'
Love,
Andrew
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