Re: [-empyre-] writing and pattern flows

[Roman Danylak <rdanylak@it.uts.edu.au>]

I would propose that the goal of human culture is to re-experience
fundamental myths, myths being patterns of recorded action. The computer as
a pattern making machine then becomes highly significant as the new "fire"
around which we sit hearing the stories of the past to be told and re-told.

Roman

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On 9/10/05 10:38 AM, "Bill Seaman" <bseaman@risd.edu> wrote:

> Pattern Flows
> 
> ontology
> 
> 1. <philosophy> A systematic account of Existence.
> 
> 2. <artificial intelligence> (From philosophy) An explicit
> formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts
> and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of
> interest and the relationships that hold among them.
> 
> e·pis·te·mol·o·gy      P   Pronunciation Key  (-pst-ml-j)
> n. 
> The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its
> presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity.
> 
> 
> Pattern Flows
> 
> I wrote a major text for Convergence Magazine. I also have a different version
> of the text on-line at billseaman.com.
> 
> Pattern flows are multi-modal experience. (multiple sense modalities as
> experienced/generated over time)- another way to say this is sense
> perturbations causing bodily flows over time, (and constructions arising out
> of operating on these sensual inputs [thought processes][related * see Turing
> * input and output organs].
> 
> We have an on-going experience of multiple senses. Any word comes to be known
> in relation to(through) this experience. In fact the employment of the
> associational network tied to a word later enables the projection of a history
> of pattern flows back onto experience, calling forth an associational network
> of relations.  I smell (sense) something and I recall a place or a particular
> person or a special event (or other)*these multiple senses [assuming
> experience in a time-based n dimensional flow (in mind)] fuse and form a
> time-based pattern flow {the conjecture is that this is an embodied flow that
> also forms a particular neuronal flow in the brain/mind/body (nested in
> environment). So I (we) learn a word in an embodied context as well as through
> a relational set of varied embodied contexts*This is a bit like Wittgenstein's
> 'The Meaning is the Use" but much broader --- I am not just "pointing" at
> words here but how words and multi-modal experience dynamically intra-act in
> an ongoing manner (we are functioning in a subjectobject continuum).
> (Heidigger's Being and Time points at this --- but in English one may be
> outside of the nuance of the German language*) I have a pattern flow of
> experiences (multiple senses become enfolded,  I associate a word with these
> experiences, and with other experiences, in an ongoing accretive manner.
> 
> The computer enables one to author dynamic relations to pattern flows.  The
> "input/output organs of Turing" are very much open to interpretation and use
> (steering) [see cybernetics]. This is the beauty of the computer * how it can
> be re-purposed (re-focused) [Turing machine as universal potential machine of
> focused communication / interaction potential].
> 
> So language/meaning production is about the generation of pattern flows in the
> service of  communication (or miscommunication) or other* Thus computers have
> great potential at the creation of multiple kinds of patterns* multi-modal
> flows [pattern flows].  Code becomes enfolded * the flows always have multiple
> levels and valences (conveyances) and potentialities.
> 
> Best
> bill
> 
> ------
> 
> [Pierce was also interested in subjectobject unity but I think code injects
> contingencies that semiotics has not as yet fully articulated*]
> see - http://www.peirce.org/writings/p32.html
> On a New List of Categories
> 
> Charles S. Peirce
> 
> 
> 
> See also Open Order Cybernetics with A. Gaugusch.
> 
> 
> 
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