It's Elemental

Tag: brain

  • Ross Ashby is smarter than you

    Ross Ashby says:

    That homo has a brain no more entitles him to assume he knows how he thinks than possession of a liver entitles him to assume that he knows how he metabolises.

    (http://www.rossashby.info/aphorisms.html)

  • Harmonic Points and Lines: A Projective Geometric Exercise

    WARNING: PROJECTIVE GEOMETRY MAY PUT HOLES IN YOUR BRAIN.  YOUR MIND MIGHT LEAK OUT – IF YOU WANT YOUR MIND IN YOUR BRAIN STOP READING NOW.

    Okay, here is a geometric exercise that I find very interesting (for some context about WHY it is interesting, look here).

      It is, however, more complicated than the previous one and will likely require you to actually take out a pencil (not a pen, please, and go for mechanical – 0.5mm lead… do it for me), a ruler, and unlined paper.

    HARMONIC POINTS – Phase 1

    The short setup first, then construction hints, then process, then comments:

    1. Draw line a.
    2. Mark point A on line a.
    3. (more…)

  • brain(s)

    my fingers are tapping to an unknown rhythm
    a sightless pattern just below consciousness
    feeding somewhere in the background of my eyes
    it swirls, dives, escalates, tumbles
    and words – my God, words! appear

    mysteries profuse my skin
    invisible knives punctuating reality
    letting the dreams out
    all the while
    tap tap tap
     
    and more: you, unquietly reaching
    impossibly leeching, receiving 
    growing dreams of my dreams
    with another blind seeming
    a different kind of feeding

    we, the complex together
    cradle each other now
    discovering pathways to ourselves
    shouting keys and rending walls
    loosing what we have found

     

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