Leo is als een boom LO31116

From: ACampnona@aol.com
Date: 06/28/04


Replying to LO31074 --

dear Leo,

> I am a rather doubtful person and tend to walk more and more crooked.

perhaps the world is crooked. A crooked walk in a crooked world is in
general harmony and sympathy then, and it is ''as straight as one
gets''...where do de-formations comes from and what do they tell
us?...That is/was\will be an implication of picking up Michael's book,
(see previous post) which was on my desk when i contemplated your
response to my Double Dutch ;-)...

Here is something from Maturana which i noted down a few years ago...

“I propose an image that conveys this notion of inventing a history
to explain the present. Consider what happens when a pebble is dropped
in a still pool and a wave begins to expand. The expanding wave-front
occurs wherever it is: It is a continuous “now.” If a couple of
points are selected on the wave-front, an origin for it can be
invented, but the wave-front itself exists now. Similarly, an origin
for the universe can be invented from observations we make now. In the
same way, when we propose an origin for the living systems on earth,
what we are proposing is the origin of the historical wave-front of
living beings that is the biosphere now. What is interesting is that
we do find coherences that are adequate for inventing an origin in a
way that remains consistent with other observations we make now. The
image of the little pool helps to explain this, too. Consider various
bits—leaves, little sticks, seeds—floating here and there on the
surface of the water, some of them touching one another. If we look
at the movements of these floating bits, we shall find that they have
two kinds of coherences, some of which are historical, others that
have to do with nearness, and still others that have to do with other
influences. When the pebble makes a wave, all the little bits that
the wave encounters move simultaneously. They are coherent because the
movements on the wave-front have to do with the history of the
wave-front, in the sense that the wave-front has a coherence that has
to do with its history. Other coherences have to do with nearness
(e.g., when one leaf touches another). Still other coherences have to
do with other wave-fronts that inter-cross the original wave-front.
Imagine, for example, what would happen if the wave-front from the
pebble triggered a floating seed to pop so that it started a new
wave-front. What we have in this image of a pool is not only an
evocation of our existence in the present but an image of the
coherences among ourselves and in the world in which we exist. Some
coherences are of a historical nature (i.e., they exist because we
belong to the same history). Others exist because we are making this
history of a changing present through the interactions we have now
with what we encounter (i.e., through nearness). “ Humberto Maturana

i learned many things from reading and then imagining Humberto
Maturana, in situ ;-)...sometimes with his son...;-) one thing i
imagined from the above is that coherence does not have to be formed
from straightnesses...like elegance is not to be formed from
simplicity alone...

A couple of years ago our LO friend Dan Chay wrote me a note, telling
me about his experiences of sea faring and sky flying in fog, up there
in Alaska...and there was talk of dreamtime too, re-writing of some
mythic stories for his lovely grrrrls Maya and Freda. Hello
Grrrrrls;-) I have placed a pic file for you to see Leo, one i made
that invoked the response seen, there were others unseen, unexpected,
later, consequentially, or knot as the case may become;-)...seeing in
fog is a funny thing...for example, some things look further away than
they actually are, while others sound closer than they really
are..which makes me wonder about this thing called
''reality''...me...i continue to live in and out of my dreams...

love,

andrew

PS. for the technically minded here is some information about the
nature of the image in the PPt, which itself is rather groundless ;-)

[Host's Note: Andrew's PPT is at

   http://www.learning-org.com/docs/LO31116_ParadisiacalNotionsCalledFog.ppt

And, I think it is a very interesting image!

  .. Rick]

Notes of an Aesthetic Nature
Art [this] is [in part] not anymore so concerned with the recognition of the
part, as in the figurative representation for example, being on the other hand
dedicated to the emergence of the Whole; and in the paradigm shift, with the
surpassing of an artisan and manual art, to become concept and context.
The digitalised images here are taken from original ‘concrete’ images
constitute part of a larger, more whole, more true revolution in perception since
the reproduction of an image does not drift on the colour accumulation, but
rather on the decay of the black.
While in a normal typographical impression the colours are made by the
accumulation of four inks, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, in the RGB system, used
for the monitors, the colours derive from the grey gradations of three
channels, Red, Green and Blue. The images in the three different channels, are not
then an accumulation of (just) inks, but an interaction between image states.
[The colour does not depend on a simple accumulation of inks, but on a process
of adding and subtracting levels of grey.] This process of ‘adding’ and ‘
subtracting’ is present in practically all life mechanisms, namely on natural
collective systems, and biological networks where phenomenon like ‘self-organization
’ relies on simple mechanisms of positive and negative feedback. To start
with the interaction of life and death, which appears as a metaphor in a RGB
environment .

-- 

ACampnona@aol.com

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