Sunday, July 22, 2007

Of course


7 comments:

Bill Gusky said...

on the second diagram --

(a) says -- ??? -- that these narratives extend from a core of the true self but are not the self. Whereas...

(b) says that the self is all of these narratives, or at least includes them --

???? am I understanding this at all?
What's the source, Steve?

thanks - B

Steven LaRose said...

Let the plagiarism begin:

I am stealing from Jacques de Beaufort, who I can only assume stole the graph from someone else.

I started to Google some of the language from the image and quickly realized that it would be much easier to ask Jacques.

Stealing from many is "research".

I wonder if the more important thing is, do we (Steve and Bill) understand these diagrams in the same way.

I see the "Self" as existing as a graph (which is a fog) betwixt these extremes. But. . . sometimes you got to define your extremes... in order to explain a fog.

Jacques de Beaufort said...

I'm pretty lazy about footnoting sources but those came from
here andhere

I also liked this,this,this, andthis


I think that the graph of self is a way of looking at being as a decentered holistic experience rather than as ego based with a core. One is Eastern, the other Western.

Personally my point was to demonstrate that all these nets, graphs, and maps are somewhat humorous and futile methods for reigning in experience which is esentially without intrinsic order. Grass isn't really green unless we make it so by naming it such. Similarly all structure applied to experience is the product of it's maker more than a description of that which it aims to describes.

Jacques de Beaufort said...

I think that first link was fuzzed, try this cut and paste:
http://kybele.psych.cornell.edu/~edelman/Psych-231/week6.html

Jacques de Beaufort said...

there's some amazing shit on that kybele.psych link
ypu have to press the yellow forward arrow down by the little pictograph of a house

Jacques de Beaufort said...

also:
http://interactive.usc.edu/projects/cloud/cloudtypes&interactions.jpg

http://interactive.usc.edu/projects/cloud/cloudshapingprocess.jpg

http://interactive.usc.edu/projects/cloud/clouddevelopment&weathers.jpg

Steven LaRose said...

whoa whoa whoafuggin whoa

these are all precious links

My bookmarks are now stacked to toppling

Jacques answered Bill Gusky's question and sent me down several Rabbit holes.

I thank them both