integer on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:35:37 +0200 (CEST) |
[Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]
[Nettime-bold] [ot] [!nt] \n2+0\ !tz good 2 ... |
saul ostrow <so5@nyu.edu> >I figured out what your problem is -- i like to read. the certainty of ideas is not the foundation of the certainty of perception but is, rather based on it - in that the perceptual experience which gives us the passage from one moment to the next and thus realizes the unity of time ... in this sense all consciousness is perceptual, even the consciousness of ourselves. maurice merleau-ponty [1947] derrida wrote: reading is writing. nn: i uant 2 read you [comme ca - http://membank.org/biosemiotics/produkzie.html it's good 2 laugh >I figured out what your problem is -- researchers who have taught sign language to chimpanzees will no doubt take issue with that. banana +? [it's good to eat] >trotskyite nn searched for her trotsky book + i must tell you i could never be 01 trotskyite because trotsky is ugly. and you - are you beautiful + tall +? [it's good 2] it's good 2 read. it's good 2 write. >you only know how to attaack >or stand in judgment of others this forces me to wear elegant mirrors. and ... if aging brains get it right, the coming rigidity is tempered by tolerance and detachment. with advancing years and the accumulation if experience at one point, brains reach a threshold and undergo a state transition, such that on passage there is a remarkable coming together of all that is past, an awareness of global interconnectedness between the accumulated recollections and understandings over the years. this is the state of wisdom. it cannot be directly sought or striven for [daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa] but it is recognized when it comes [palms with little drawings of branches and dirt +?] and it brings a serenity and graciousness of knowing how small the sense of self is, how transient are its aims and impacts, and how broad is the range of interconnection with other selves by influences too small to be singled out and labeled, yet undeniably acting within - in the way that a single neuron in cortex `knows` what is to be done from the field of activity within which it is embedded, without the need to know `why` or `what the big picture is`. it is sufficient for a neuron to perform as a neuron is designed to do, and for a woman or man it is enough to know that one has met a challenge or passed 01test without realizing that a test was in progress. not everyone achieves this state of mind, and it is not communicable in words or by teaching, but it is there and has been written about, and when one arrives, one knows that the future has joined with the past to make a circle outside time. space folds onto itself. love does as well. Andreas Broeckmann [being romantic dear +?] >listening, darling. how deep is your love? [you arent addressing me though are you +?] folding. i have a lot of protein folds. long long folds. that's why it's tiring. they're all folding around[in]beneath you. the fishtank bursts in mid air, and the z!l!kon in the glass melts with your body want a bite +? it's good to eat. nn - my students and i train rabbits - hier triffst du life forms mit echten namen statt nicknames! m9ndfukc.com macht spaß! und sie macht ernst: die virtuelle koridor wird zum bindeglied ins real life: life forms mit echten namen treffen sich auch im echten leben. da+da! - 553kretar!at.0+55 - f3.MASCHIN3NKUNST @www.eusocial.com 17.hzV.tRL.478 e | | +---------- | | < \\----------------+ | n2t | > e _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold