DESMA 9: Art, Science and Technology

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DESMA 9Art, Science and Technology
Consciousness / Memory
"The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of
our consciouness are one and the same." "The
Spiritual Problem of Modern Man" ) C.G Jung
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consciousness (kon'sh?s-nis) n. The state or
condition of being conscious. A sense of one's
personal or collective identity, including the
attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or
considered characteristic of an individual or
group Love of freedom runs deep in the national
consciousness. Special awareness or sensitivity
class consciousness race consciousness. Alertness
to or concern for a particular issue or
situation a movement aimed at raising the
general public's consciousness of social
injustice. In psychoanalysis, the conscious.
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Camillos memory theater
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Miss Atomic Bomb, 1957
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Roy LichtensteinAtom Burst, 1966Acrylic on
masonite24 x 24 inches (60.9 x 60.9 cm)
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DAVID BOHM
Thought as a System Similarly, thought is a
system. That system not only includes thoughts,
'felts' and feelings, but it includes the state
of the body it includes the whole of society -
as thought is passing back and forth between
people in a process by which thought evolved
from ancient times. A system is constantly
engaged in a process of development, change,
evolution and structure changes...although there
are certain features of the system which become
relatively fixed. We call this the structure....
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Quantum Mechanics or Theory Coined by Max Bohr
in 1924 is a physical science dealing with the
behaviour of matter and energy on the scale of
atoms and subatomic particles / waves. QM also
forms the basis for the contemporary
understanding of how very large objects such as
Stars and galaxies, and cosmological events such
as the Big Bang, can be analyzed and explained.
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Gregory Bateson
"I have taught various branches of behavioral
biology and cultural anthropology to American
students ranging from college freshmen to
psychiatric residents, in various schools and
teaching hospitals, and I have encountered a very
strange gap in their thinking that springs from
a lack of certain tools of thought. This lack is
rather equally distributed at all levels of
education, among students of both sexes and
among humanists as well as scientists.
Specifically, it is a lack of knowledge of the
presuppositions not only of science but of
everyday life." (Gregory Bateson in Mind and
Nature, p. 23)
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MEME
Cover painting by Desmond Morris, zoologist
Surrealist painter
Coined by biologist Richard Dawkins, a "unit of
cultural information" which can propagate from
one mind to another in a manner analogous to
genes (i.e., the units of genetic information).
1976
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Research Dreams, art, mythology, World religion,
philosophy, Alchemy, astrology
Psychology archetypes, Collective
unconscious, Theory of synchronicity
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Life has always seemed to me like a plant that
lives on its rhizome. Its true life is
invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that
appears above the ground lasts only a single
summer. Then it withers awayan ephemeral
apparition. When we think of the unending growth
and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot
escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I
have never lost the sense of something that
lives and endures beneath the eternal flux. What
we see is blossom, which passes. The rhizome
remains. (Prologue from "Memories, Dreams,
Reflections")
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RHIZOME
In botany, a rhizome is a usually underground,
horizontal stem of a plant that often sends out
roots and shoots from its nodes, though a number
of species of plants have above ground rhizomes
or rhizomes that sit at the soil surface
including some Iris species. Rhizomes may also be
referred to as creeping rootstalks, or
rootstocks.
rhizome has been used by Carl Jung as a metaphor,
and by Gilles Deleuze as a concept
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Francisco Varela
Philosopher trained as biologist. Proponent of
the embodied philosophy which argues that human
cognition and consciousness can only be
understood in terms of the enactive structures
in which they arise, namely the body and the
physical world with which the body interacts.
Autopoiesis literally means "auto
(self)-creation" (from the Greek auto - a?t?
for self- and poiesis - p???s?? for creation or
production) and expresses a fundamental dialect
between structure and function. The term was
originally introduced by Chilean biologists
Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela in 1973
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NOOSPHERE
The noosphere can be seen as the "sphere of human
thought" being derived from the Greek ????
("nous") meaning "mind" in the style of
"atmosphere" and "biosphere". In the original
theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third
in a succession of phases of development of the
Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and
the biosphere (biological life). Just as the
emergence of life fundamentally transformed the
geosphere, the emergence of human cognition
fundamentally transforms the biosphere. The
word is also sometimes used to refer to a
transhuman consciousness emerging from the
interactions of human minds. This is the view
proposed by the theologian Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin who added that the noosphere is evolving
towards an ever greater integration, culminating
in the Omega Pointwhich he saw as the ultimate
goal of history.
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MEMORY Fragility of memory distortions
illusions Multiple forms types Dr. Schacter,
Harvard University
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