Replying to LO30119 --
Don wrote that he 'feels',
> ...it would be of
> benefit to sketch out a broad theoretical context which establishes
> interconnections between these discrete areas.
>
Don, the word 'discrete' always used to get me in 'science' contexts. In
science it apparently ;-) means 'distinct' and 'discontinuous' ...but then
'metaphy;-sic' the dictionary offers the meanings of, 'not concrete' and
'detached from the material' (OUP)
Art;-)hur Schopenhauer once wrote ..." But in addition to this, the very best
- is too spiritual to be given directly to the senses; it must be born in the
beholder's imagination, though it must be begotten by the work of art. It is
due to this that the sketches of the great masters are often more effective
than their finished paintings.'
When the politicians, the beaurocrats, technowizardprats, teachers, teacher's
assistants education theorists are no longer at war within themselves and
withinin the microcosms and macrocosms of which they are a part they may stop
for a moment and wonder....what is it that they really are trying to do when
they rise everymorning...prove and dispense some cockeyed theory as a
personalised career progression move or ...educate the child.
Maturana is expressive to me on the issue ;-) - It is vision not more modish
'abstract models' that will educate the child, today. It is a 'clarity of
vision'. Oh how I detest the 'tidy uppers' of it all. I do mean it all...the
premature e-----'s (fill in your own suffixes;-) Don.
Donella Meadows spoke to people like you and me ( a presumption on my part,
one that I clearly own up to) when she advised that at moments of losing the
vision, or need of acquiring one we could do no better than listen to the
universe's intent and will since it is probably more coherent than ours, at
that moment.
In David Bohm I read that into his ' ...finer faster form of attention'
through 'simple attention' - which i expect is manifestly complex ;-) fugue
like and polyphonical and not a little embodied ;-)...in the faces of our
confusions.
Someone called Dennis Sandow was asked to reflect upon his owned learnings
upon Maturana's contention that we can ask ourselves, 'what is it we wish to
conserve, and how do I do so.' (for me, now, it is [for as long as possible]
co-conserve the capacity for learning (impolicit((typo)) implicit to the
infant stage)
for Dennis it is the realization, implicit in himself- that all this is no
more than, and no less than, '' -the conservation of these and other desires
to serve people and the earth transformative."
At, you asked me what I missed about my art teachers? I miss that, I miss
that every day, present and absent that they supported and lifted me up, out
into the capacity to create my own visions.
Maturana speaks to us of the possibility of a 'Transformation Through
Conservation'.
Imagine this if you will;-)..
What if the infant is continually recalling;-) a 'state' that is both awake
and asleep within her, even Paradisical? (Paradoxical) And at each human
inter-action and especially through language she feels a force, pulling her
away from that center which is most special and sacred and most pure, like a
heaven up-on earth...Platonical...she senses albeit ;-) implicately an
innered urge, to conserve herself at this interference. ...well...Maturana
goes on and I cannot...but I am struck by this, and like a sketch by the
master he is I find it both 'discrete' and 'discrete' (spot the difference?
anyone;-) we, " confuse outcome with process...Similarly something is only an
opportunity if one desires it. So it is our desires that define what becomes
what; what is conserved and what disappears in our living." - " We follow the
path of our desires." ( the whole may be viewed at
http://www.sol-ne.org/res/wp/maturana/)
Jesus, given the choice would have led us back to the world of the choices of
the child.
Partim velle, partime nolle ( Augustine. Confessions VIII, 9,21)
Schopenhauer's great work was called, if I recall, "World as Will and Idea"
Augustine writes of the unwholeness of human will and sketches by absence its
longing to return - or - move on - reflectingly, roundedly
" For that will commands that there be a will, and that this be itself
and not something else. But the complete will does not give the command, and
therefore what it commands is not in being. For
if the will were complete, it would not command itself to be; it would
already be. Hence, it is not monstrous partly to will
a thing and partly to nill it, but it is a sickness of the mind. Although the
mind is supported by truth, it does not wholly rise up, since it is heavely
weighed down by habit."
Let me close like this...if a child be a work of art...by simple metaphorical
example...let the child remain a sketch for as long as humanly possible,
don't bring him to the measuring tables...enable him rather to become
activated into his infinite aspirations, learn from her or him more than you
(perhaps) do, think you can, think practical, think wise...she-he is closer
to an ideal than you might know ;-) imagine a little child with whom you
spend the day, like a man wandering some desert garden, today..." -you may be
entirely satisfied by the impression he has made upon you when leaving you
there is something, somethings, that in spite of all your reflections upon
it, you cannot bring down to the distinctness of your concepts." That might
be a door left open, to a splace ;-) (splice) of 'free energy', two words,
one thing ;-)
Love,
Andrew
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