just to echo roger's comments on invention / consciousness - I love
the way this is developing into a process philosophy of invention. As
the discussion draws to a close soon - I already know that I will miss
the stimulus and would be very happy to continue these discussions
derek
2009/3/29 roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>:
> ramon
>
> thank you so much for the addition of "invention of the self" to
> the discussion on artists as inventors !!
>
> it seems to me that the brain is such a "plastic organ" that
> indeed many things that we take to be part of innate nature
> actually are the result of our interactions with the artefacts we
> invent
>
> one of the big mysteries in the history of human beings is why
> it took so long to invent written languages= written languates are
> a really recent invention in the history of homo sapiens
>
> so much of what i consider to be part of "myself' comes not only
> from my interactions with other people and the world, but with the
> artefacts we build= what was it like to be a human being before
> written language and the visual arts were invented ?
>
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