tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-178981602024-02-18T21:12:10.627-08:00CINEMORPHICSWorkshop info: cinemorphics@yahoo.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-82104453488262380272016-12-21T03:08:00.000-08:002016-12-21T03:10:11.000-08:00Live Your Own Myth<br />
<br />VERY Cinemorphics-like!
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The Trickster Marseille Deck is now available at <a href="https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/trickster-marseille">https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/trickster-marseille</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-44143917134825763402016-08-12T21:34:00.000-07:002016-08-12T21:34:07.604-07:00Meta-identity...All the World's a Stage...<br />
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The effectiveness of newly reconstructed personas...self shifts... may be tested on two stages...the "real world" and the World Wide Web (via social media). As Shakespeare said..."All the world's a stage". In the 21st century this is actually the case.<br />
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One result of this self shifting, whether as a result of intentional Cinemorphic reality handling or accidentally through the obsessive use of social media, is the falling away of the ordinary psychological process of identification with a particular persona...inventory of "this is me". What replaces it is what I am calling <b>"Meta-identity"</b>...i.e. identifying with and embracing the process of ever changing "selves" rather than identifying with just one "me".<br />
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Several articles which relate to this either directly or tangentially may be found through the following links:<br />
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<a href="https://prezi.com/esyd90erfu4n/the-impact-of-social-media-on-identity-construction/">https://prezi.com/esyd90erfu4n/the-impact-of-social-media-on-identity-construction/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/blog/self-selfie-identity-age-social-media">http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/blog/self-selfie-identity-age-social-media</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.utne.com/science-and-technology/discover-your-meta-identity-twitterfy-yourself.aspx">http://www.utne.com/science-and-technology/discover-your-meta-identity-twitterfy-yourself.aspx</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-36569342654832534872015-09-18T19:09:00.001-07:002015-09-18T19:13:15.617-07:00The Mask of Persona<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The mask of persona...what's inside?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have been asked on numerous occasions (I first posted this several years ago and am re-posting it now because of new questions) if Cinemorphics is a magical system. One of the early names I considered using for the approach and techniques for looking at and handling reality that became Cinemorphics was Alchemical Conjuration Tech (Training, Technique, Theory, Tao, etc.), so I guess I was looking at what I was putting together as a magical system all along. As these ideas developed, in my mind, what evolved was more of a post modern therapy model (sometimes compared to NLP) or a role playing reality manipulation “game” like Second Life…only occurring in “ordinary” reality rather than cyberspace. But the magical system take on Cinemorphics …from the POV of Chaos Magick especially… seems as appropriate as these.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What Cinemorphics technology DOES when someone re-writes, re-acts, re-directs, re-produces one’s persona…when someone realizes the fictitious and malleable nature of the “self”…creates and thoroughly inhabits a new “self” and all that goes with it…including a new belief system…IS…at the same time…call forth a new reality…a new world…in which to live. It has long been realized…in the case, say, of manifesting one’s desires…that whatever new is manifested into one’s reality changes the entirety of that reality. For example, addicts who quit realize this…along with their families…and the “new world” of the person minus the alcohol or drugs is oftentimes not what the ex-addict’s loved ones expected or wanted. One change is accompanied by many others. So Cinemorphics…Alchemical Conjuration Tech (the “real” A.C.T. as in Method acting) can “bend” reality to the will of the practitioner by evoking a new fictitious character (entity?) which the practitioner then inhabits (or is possessed by?). I have also used shape shifting and other metaphors for this process of transformation in the basic writings about Cinemorphics.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As is pointed out in these writings, though, this is not the whole story. Effectively exchanging one fiction for another is not what Cinemorphics…or Alchemical Conjuration Tech…is, finally, all about. If one realizes that one’s persona, and indeed one’s entire worldview, is a fiction, an illusion…fun to play with maybe, but still an illusion…then one can…maybe…realize who (what?) one really is. In this sense, this “system” is like Taoist alchemy…The Secret of the Golden Flower…which was why I originally thought of using alchemy as part of the name to begin with. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">TAO</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-90742339391237354532015-07-29T07:54:00.000-07:002015-11-30T21:16:43.162-08:00Tarot-icons<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: large;">Look at Tarot card
layouts (also I Ching hexagrams, cast bones, etc.) as icons on the “desktop”
(user interface with “reality”) of the person being read…a synchronicity…an
array of symbols that “are” the person at a given moment in time…another way of
telling their story. This chance set of icons can be re-arranged, resulting in
changes in the person in the “real” world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: large;">This kind of
manipulation is a sort of Cinemorphic (re-write yourSELF) manipulation…an
alternate reality game. i.e. don’t just use divination methods to “tell a
fortune” or read someone “as they are” but also manipulate the oracle to change
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Look at the Tarot as a
semiotic web (like an organism with an intelligence?) which we can interact
with…have a conversation with…talk to….cajole.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A Conscious Agent (see Hoffman, 2008, Conscious Realism and the Mind Body Problem) can be a symbol (and part of the semiotic web) but not all symbols are Conscious Agents. Patrick Dunn’s semiotic web is roughly analogous to Donald Hoffman’s user interface, in which symbols = icons. An individual Conscious Agent’s semiotic web (user interface) includes other Conscious Agents as well other types of symbols (icons). Reality consists of inter-related and interacting semiotic webs, each with a Conscious Agent at its center. The Conscious Agent at the center is the Persona of Cinemorphics. The symbols in the semiotic web are the persona’s “inventory” of characteristics. Cinemorphic change (deleting and adding characteristics) is the same as changing the symbols in the semiotic web to bring about reality shifts. “Symbol changing” can also be brought about by creating NEW metaphors…i.e. “You” ARE a persona/ego/self becomes “You” ARE a character that can be changed around (like in a script). Re-framing…re-metaphorizing is the “reality handling”/manipulation that results in <material> changes.</material></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-19391451881259026852015-07-06T10:24:00.001-07:002015-07-07T06:01:12.863-07:00At Play In The Semiosphere<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I will be discussing Patrick Dunn's approach to reality handling and manipulation within the context of Cinemorphic self shifting in future posts. Interesting parallels and implications...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">“Think of a huge web stretching across the
black emptiness of space. In each nexus of lines rests a symbol connecting to
an infinite number of other symbols. It is important to grasp this concept,
because symbols are the underlying girders of the universe. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I call this complex of recursive symbols ‘the
semiotic web.’ When seeking meaning, the mind says ‘I can place any idea in my
semiotic web, which I've built up from all the symbols of our culture, and have
it make sense to me.’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I believe the semiotic web is the substance
of ultimate reality. More than just an abstraction to explain the way the human
mind works, I think it is the abstraction to explain how Mind works. Mind is
not separate from reality, nor is reality separate from the semiotic spaces it
inhabits.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Manipulating symbol systems manipulates the
semiotic web, and therefore manipulates reality.”<br />
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Patrick Dunn. Postmodern Magic: The Art of Magic in the Information
Age <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Magic-The-Art-Information/dp/0738706639">http://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Magic-The-Art-Information/dp/0738706639</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"How Artificial Superintelligence Will Give Birth To Itself" by George Dvorsky is a particularly interesting window on the world of AI research from the POV of Cinemorphics...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">"There's a saying among futurists that a human-equivalent artificial
intelligence will be our last invention. After that, AIs will be capable
of designing virtually anything on their own — including themselves.
Here's how a recursively self-improving AI could transform itself into a
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Ruby Wax put her comedy career on hold a few years ago in order to
research mental illness and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy at
Oxford. It's there that she first encountered neuroplasticity: the
ability to rewire your brain just by changing the way you think. Wax,
who sports a Master's in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behavioural
Therapy, now travels the world promoting mental health awareness and
stigmatization. Her new book is titled "Sane New World." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To play video please visit: <a href="http://bigthink.com/videos/ruby-wax-on-neuroplasticity">http://bigthink.com/videos/ruby-wax-on-neuroplasticity</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-19185850130834498862015-01-30T22:28:00.002-08:002015-01-30T22:28:54.800-08:00Dean Radin Interview<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k-G6V7f5h-E" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-63236499757871012532015-01-24T08:58:00.000-08:002015-01-24T08:58:29.308-08:00WLOR.net Life Omni Radio Interview by Kip Baldwin<iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/KKcM21rMDKk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-51597254776676158982015-01-11T11:21:00.000-08:002015-01-11T11:22:20.413-08:00Should Schools Teach Personality!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Axiom, adopted from Sean Murphy. This says,and I quote,"The normal does
not exist. The average does not exist. We know only a very large but
probably finite phalanx of discrete space-time events encountered and
endured." In less technical language, the Board of the College of
Patapsychology offers one million Irish punds [around $700,000 American]
to any "normalist" who can exhibit "a normal sunset, an average
Beethoven sonata, an ordinary Playmate of the Month, or any thing or
event in space-time that qualifies as normal, average or ordinary."...(cont.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the entire piece about the genesis of patapsychology, click <a href="http://www.rawilson.com/csicon.html">HERE</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-40320912958894202922014-12-13T15:35:00.001-08:002014-12-14T15:49:38.839-08:00Is Consciousness A Product Of The Brain Or Is The Brain The Receiver Of Consciousness?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s great to see that in today’s day and age, multiple prominent scientists from all over the world have started to study and examine several different areas that deal with non-physical phenomenon and human consciousness. Truth is they’ve been doing it for decades, but it’s just now starting to receive the recognition it deserves.</span></div>
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that continues to rage within the world of video games, is the game that
touched it off. <a href="http://www.depressionquest.com/">Depression Quest</a>,
created by the developers Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey and Isaac
Schankler, isn’t what most people think of as a video game at all...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">To read the entire article please click <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/magazine/twine-the-video-game-technology-for-all.html?ref=magazine">HERE</a>. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898160.post-35841043966998421882014-11-16T16:32:00.003-08:002014-11-17T08:08:36.742-08:00play/search - A Quest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">This Alternate Reality Game/Quest is offered as an amusing challenge to all (science/art) players of good will...a new game is afoot...let's see where it leads...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><b>A Quest…(a treasure hunt)...</b></span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"> Find the
best source(s) of funding for an initial <b>play/search project </b>entitled...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">(Please
read the link material and watch the videos before embarking on the quest.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b>Here are a few clues…</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">…in the
form of questions, observations, quotes, links to websites, articles and
videos. It is important to read the articles and watch the videos all the way
through.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b>What
could “play/search” refer to? Several things? Do we have a fork in the road here?<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b>Yogi Berra</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><b>An
opinion:</b></span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"> Most
scientific <b>research</b></span><span style="font-family: Geneva;">, even “basic” research, conducted inside of established universities
and other types of conventional academic institutions and funded by either the
government or various grant awarding foundations is severely limited by self
imposed constraints on the types of questions allowed to be asked and the standardized methods used to acquire evidence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">As <b>Joseph
Chilton Pearce</b> said, “Science should be a key unlocking phenomena, instead of a
lock shutting out any phenomena not fitting its keys of preconception”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">On the
opening page of Part II of Supernormal <b>Dean Radin</b> quotes <b>William James</b>…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">“There is
no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a
fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">Also from
J<b>oseph Chilton Pearce</b>…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">“(<b>William
Blake</b> said that) Ordinary seeing is mechanical and dead; vision is seeing that
the universe is the material for creation, not the fixed deadness of matter.
Blake lost his argument, to say the least. Indeed there was no contest. We are
now living in the pandemonium he foresaw should Newton, Locke, and company win
the day, as they surely did. The “Enlightenment” proved no boon to man – just
one more frying pan to switch into – and it may prove the final fire.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Check out… CHM Revolutionaries: Reality is Broken- Jane McGonigal with NPR's Laura Sydell at this link…<a href="http://youtu.be/ZjSVo8N31r4">http://youtu.be/ZjSVo8N31r4</a><!--EndFragment--></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Science is truth with her wings clipped”.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Austin O’Malley, Keystones of Thought </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Check out… Games for Change: Solving the World's Biggest Problems Through Alternate Realities: Jane McGonigal…here… <a href="http://youtu.be/yLUdxqYmDdc">http://youtu.be/yLUdxqYmDdc</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Institute For The Future: <a href="http://www.iftf.org/focus-area/global-landscape/">http://www.iftf.org/focus-area/global-landscape/</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Wilhelm Reich</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mind/Shift: <a href="http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/what-makes-an-extreme-learner/">http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/07/what-makes-an-extreme-learner/</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Extreme Learners Overview: <a href="http://youtu.be/FYoWKEZ0Xuw">http://youtu.be/FYoWKEZ0Xuw</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What are TechShops (<a href="http://techshop.ws/">http://techshop.ws/</a> ), MakerSpaces (<a href="http://makezine.com/2013/05/22/the-difference-between-hackerspaces-makerspaces-techshops-and-fablabs/">http://makezine.com/2013/05/22/the-difference-between-hackerspaces-makerspaces-techshops-and-fablabs/</a> ), and Learning Shelters (<a href="http://news.typeamachines.com/the-learning-shelter/">http://news.typeamachines.com/the-learning-shelter/</a> )?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">An Infinite Game of Global Unity: <a href="http://youtu.be/1Jj7lT7ED_M">http://youtu.be/1Jj7lT7ED_M</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b>What
would scientific play/search instead of scientific research look like?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">“The most
exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is
not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny!’”<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b>Isaac Asimov<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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methodology, overall approach and “atmosphere”…a key clue in the play/search quest?<o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b>Is Science (with a capital "S"), one of humankind's stories, a mythological undertaking worthy of a noble quest...(and...a construct subject to a re-write)?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b>What if </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Baobah Novas
Formas de Inteligência turned "essential" experimental protocols upside down?</b></span><br />
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radical quantum theater projects as play/search?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">Baobah Novas Formas de Inteligência - Cia Lápis de Seda -</span> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><a href="http://youtu.be/7-i9TYd_Bvo">http://youtu.be/7-i9TYd_Bvo</a></span></div>
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out…<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.theatrehorizon.org/education/autism.html">http://www.theatrehorizon.org/education/autism.html</a> , </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AlzheimersCommunity/alzheimers-disease-improv-helps-patients-live-moment/story?id=14307386">http://abcnews.go.com/Health/AlzheimersCommunity/alzheimers-disease-improv-helps-patients-live-moment/story?id=14307386</a>
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Theater:</b></span><span style="font-family: Geneva;"> <a href="http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3585&context=etd_theses">http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3585&context=etd_theses</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;">“The most
beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion
which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” </span></span><br />
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Aesthetics:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;"><b>"Trans-intelligence:
New Approaches to Aptitude Formation"<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Propose definitions for "play/search" and "trans-intelligence".</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Draw a detailed treasure map showing how to get to the funding source(s) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">and complete the quest(s)...please indicate all emerging forks... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;"><i>“We are limited by our
agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate
possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three
gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in
which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world.
The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding
other possibilities.” </i></span><i><br />
</i><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-style: normal;">Joseph Chilton Pearce,
The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: large;">I read The Crack in the
Cosmic Egg over forty years ago when it was first published. I have found since
then, that the book seems to mysteriously re-enter my life every few years,
seemingly to remind me where parts of my thinking came from. Either I will my
tattered original “lost” copy behind some other book on a hopelessly
disorganized shelf, or find someone else’s “lost” copy forgotten in a coffee
house, or receive a new edition as a gift, or turn up a PDF…click <a href="http://selfdefinition.org/psychology/Joseph%20Chilton%20Pearce%20-%20The%20Crack%20in%20The%20Cosmic%20Egg.pdf">HERE</a>…of the
entire book on the internet while searching for something else (which just
happened and prompted this post). In any case…check it out if you have not read
it. If you don’t, it will eventually “find” you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A relatively new edition
with a new Foreword and Preface may be found <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Crack-Cosmic-Egg-Constructs/dp/0892819944">HERE</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The science of learning is a relatively new discipline born of an agglomeration of fields: cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience. As with anything to do with our idiosyncratic and unpredictable species, there is still a lot of art, especially in teaching. But the science of learning can offer some surprising new perspectives:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23px;">One day in the fall of 1981, eight men in their 70s stepped out of a van in front of a converted monastery in New Hampshire. They shuffled forward, a few of them arthritically stooped, a couple with canes. Then they passed through the door and entered a time warp. Perry Como crooned on a vintage radio. Ed Sullivan welcomed guests on a black-and-white TV. Everything inside — including the books on the shelves and the magazines lying around — were designed to conjure 1959. This was to be the men’s home for five days as they participated in a radical experiment, cooked up by a young psychologist named Ellen Langer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23px;">For the rest of the article please visit:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23px;">This work bears a strong relationship to Cinemorphics. I discuss it in Method Aging and the Infinite game. </span><br />
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