An experiment in graphic description. ... Is it fair/appropriate ?

"... (as well as in his more recent book,
'A Mind So Ra The Evolution of Human
Consciousness),'

The Canadian neuropsychologist Merlin Donald
Has proposed a promising answer
To this key question."

~ Michelle Marder Kamhi,
From "Art and Cognition: Mimesis vs. the Avant Garde"
From "Arisotos"
[January 2003]

"Imprinting ~ !
Me, my Mum, and I."
~ Folly

http://www.aristos.org/aris-03/art&cog.htm

*

"Imagine a thought experiment again,
One in which you are to undertake a mapping experiment
In V1 by making one or more long tangential
Electrode penetrations through it,
A thought experiment which is technically feasible."

~ Semir Zeki,
From "A Vision of the Brain"
[p. 176]

"... opening
The brain, as one might
Crack a wallnut, to peek inside,
As Bert once explained to me."
~ Twittering

"... but Twitty,
Are you cogent, do you know
Your address, had your supper yet ~ "
~ Capsicum

~ * Modelling High-Level Cognitive
Processes * ~

Richard P. Cooper
with contributions from Peter G. Yule, John Fox and David W. Glasspool

"This book is a practical guide to building computational models of
high-level cognitive processes and systems. High-level processes are
those central cognitive processes involved in thinking, reasoning,
planning, and so on.

These processes appear to share representational and processing
requirements, and it is for this reason that they are considered
together in this text."

http://cogent.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/

"O, how stable
Your foundation, twittering, or

Well grounded,
Well founded,
Well rounded ~

All your Liberal Arts,
All your Science

Homework done ~

Your Equestrian Dressage
Well honed, well pollished ~ ?"
~ Mum

"Commenting on the power of mimetic representation
in his Anthropologist on Mars,
neurologist Oliver Sacks

writes of Stephen ~ an autistic boy
whose capacity for abstract and symbolic thought
and communication are severely impaired ~

that he comes fully to life through artistic expression,
through his "genius for concrete
or mimetic representations,

whether drawing a cathedral, a canyon, a flower,
or enacting a scene, a drama, a song."

Mimesis, in Sacks's view,
is "itself a power of mind, a way of representing reality
with one's body and senses,

a uniquely human capacity
no less important than symbol or language."

~ Michelle Marder Kamhi,
From "Art and Cognition: Mimesis vs. the Avant Garde"
From "Arisotos"

[January 2003]

Twittering One wrote:
"Commenting on the power of mimetic representation
in his Anthropologist on Mars,
neurologist Oliver Sacks

writes of Stephen ~ an autistic boy
whose capacity for abstract and symbolic thought
and communication are severely impaired ~

oh!

... so THAT what autism is supposed to be about !!!

NOT using 'Abstraction' ...

O.K.

The follow up is WHAT ELSE IS THERE ????

I agree, the IS something so?

So?
So?
So?

Sincerely ..
... i would appreciate knowing ... being made aware. ... being
informed.



that he comes fully to life through artistic expression,
through his "genius for concrete
or mimetic representations,

whether drawing a cathedral, a canyon, a flower,
or enacting a scene, a drama, a song."

Mimesis, in Sacks's view,
is "itself a power of mind, a way of representing reality
with one's body and senses,

a uniquely human capacity
no less important than symbol or language."

O.K. Have to ponder it ...

Sacks ought to know!

This contextual usage of Mimesis is an essential and unconsidered topic
for me.

A huge heck of a lot is missing. This description is taking place at
far too coarse-a-grain of consideration, IMO. Discontinuous. Many
gaps.

RL


~ Michelle Marder Kamhi,
From "Art and Cognition: Mimesis vs. the Avant Garde"
From "Arisotos"

[January 2003]

So?
So?
So?
Lo!
Lo!
Lo!

"Although the connection is infrequently
( if ever! ) made, a 'Duality'
is much the same thing as a paradox.

A paradox is an apparently true statement
or group of statements that
seems to lead to a contradiction
or to a situation that defies
intuition."
~ Raving

"A Pair of Dox,
What's that ~ ?"
~ Twittering

"Flip your coin ~
Heads or Tails ~ ?"
~ Black Chalk