my mind begins to hum...

[mayavin]

"Interiority" sounds like a potentiality of which exteriorisation would be
the act (in Aristotelian terms) —the expectation or promise of, the
tendency to, exteriorisation. But expectation already means projection
and future—anticipation. Thus the problem is that the tool appears to be
both the result and the condition of anticipation. The tool is like a mirror, a
place of recording and inscription but also a surface of reflection, the
reflection that time is, as if the human were reading and linking his future
in the technical. There are two sides to anticipation: the anticipation
without which tool-making would be impossible; and that implied by the
fact that tool-making is not only stereotypical, that it transforms,
becomes. But can these be separated? And if this technical becoming is
not simply directed by the "who," then does the "what" have a return
effect on the "who", governing its differentiation?

[mayavin]

A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another.

[the fire elf]

[the fire elf]

[mayavin]

Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing
from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon
exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and
wander with human heart throught the world. -- Carl Jung

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

The mandate was minutiae--specks on or against the horizon of angry
process. At the point of near invisibility, garrulously joined is the diversity
of art's ethical claims, expressed in the only way they can be, through the
temporalities of negligibility, the visibilities and agencies of negative
increment. Things almost no things, oppositely pulling the connective
tissue of the mass, now whim and now woe, those that take and those
that unknow the measure of the responsibility for calamitous change, the
ones causing to be unnecessary a story that others--with the status of
blood debt--to scare us tell. King and economy-sized smalls, belittling
littles of the "big house"--evidence of merited suffering--and those of its
revolving door, the bread crumbs or body parts with which Hegel's return
path to self-love is strewn. There was the sequence that made a point,
and the point that unmade the sequence of Hegel's negativity cycle, the
blazing appearance and disappearance of the master--small of the
vanishing point and small of the missing of the point of vanishing. Small
minus the recall of a splendid atrocity, and small as caput mortuum, the
forensic small--the too-much-too-soon that became the too-little-too-late.
A splitting of the function--memory of a mistake, the small as baleful
vestige of an arrogance that had invited an overcoming, or the mistake of
memory, small of explanation, small of interpretation, fine print of the
dialectic.

see we all but pieces... forsaken contexts

... a much misunderstood phenomenon in the history of philosophy — the
refutation of one system by another, of an earlier by a later. Most
commonly the refutation is taken in a purely negative sense to mean that
the system refuted has ceased to count for anything, has been set aside
and done for. Were it so, the history of philosophy would be, of all
studies, most saddening, displaying, as it does, the refutation of every
system which time has brought forth. Now although it may be admitted
that every philosophy has been refuted, it must be in an equal degree
maintained that no philosophy has been refuted. And that in two ways. For
first, every philosophy that deserves the name always embodies the
Idea: and secondly, every system represents one particular factor or
particular stage in the evolution of the Idea. The refutation of a
philosophy, therefore, only means that its barriers are crossed, and its
special principle reduced to a factor in the completer principle that follows.

[the fire elf]

the same stimuli, or absence of them, may result in different percepts depending on subject’s culture and previous experiences.

Normally, when a person is in a serene, unstimulated state, the "firing" of
neurons in the locus ceruleus is minimal. A novel stimulus, once
perceived, is relayed from the sensory cortex of the brain through the
thalamus to the brain stem. That route of signaling increases the rate of
noradrenergic activity in the locus ceruleus, and the person becomes alert
and attentive to the environment.

[the fire elf]

establishing, maintaining, or disrupting the relation between the organism and the environment on matters of significance to the person

[mayavin]

Music therapy is used with individuals of all ages and with a variety of
conditions, including: psychiatric disorders, medical problems, physical
handicaps, sensory impairments, developmental disabilities, substance
abuse, communication disorders, interpersonal problems, and aging. It is
also used to: improve learning, build self-esteem, reduce stress, support
physical exercise, and facilitate a host of other health-related activities.

[the fire elf]

social constructionism is typically described as a sociological construct
whereas social constructivism is typically described as a psychological
construct.

[mayavin]

social constructionism is typically described as a sociological construct
whereas social constructivism is typically described as a psychological
construct.

Aristotle wrote that ambiguity can arise from the use of ambiguous names, but cannot exist in the "facts" themselves:

It is impossible, then, that 'being a man' should mean precisely 'not being
a man', if 'man' not only signifies something about one subject but also
has one significance. ... And it will not be possible to be and not to be the
same thing, except in virtue of an ambiguity, just as if one whom we
call 'man', and others were to call 'not-man'; but the point in question is
not this, whether the same thing can at the same time be and not be a
man in name, but whether it can be in fact.

[Simon of the Playa]

Music therapy is used with individuals of all ages and with a variety of
conditions, including: psychiatric disorders, medical problems, physical
handicaps, sensory impairments, developmental disabilities, substance
abuse, communication disorders, interpersonal problems, and aging. It is
also used to: improve learning, build self-esteem, reduce stress, support
physical exercise, and facilitate a host of other health-related activities.

the beat the beat the beat the beat.





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[Simon of the Playa]

In Zoroaster's revelation, Ahura Mazda will ultimately triumph, but cannot (or will not) control the druj in the here and now.

Fire as the agent of Truth

Fire is the physical creation that is the domain of AÅ¡a and in which the Amesha Spenta of "Best Truth" (Asha Vahishta) is immanent. Fire is "grandly conceived as a force informing all the other [Amesha Spentas], giving them warmth and the spark of life."[24]

In Yasht 17.20, Angra Mainyu clamours that Zoroaster burns him with Asha Vahishta. In Vendidad 4.54-55, speaking against the truth and violating the sanctity of promise is detected by the consumption of "water, blazing, of golden color, having the power to detect guilt."

This analogy of truth that burns and detecting truth through fire is already attested in the very earliest texts, that is, in the Gathas and in the Yasna Haptanghaiti. In Yasna 43-44, Ahura Mazda dispenses justice through radiance of His fire and the strength of aša. Fire "detects" sinners "by hand-grasping" (Yasna 34.4). An individual who has passed the fiery test (garmo-varah, ordeal by heat), has attained physical and spiritual strength, wisdom, truth and love with serenity (Yasna 30.7). Altogether, "there are said to have been some 30 kinds of fiery tests in all."[25] According to the post-Sassanid Dadestan i denig (I.31.10), at the final judgement a river of molten metal will cover the earth. The righteous, as they wade through this river, will perceive the molten metal as a bath of warm milk. The wicked will be scorched. For details on aša's role in personal and final judgement, see aša in eschatology, below.

Fire is moreover the "auxiliary of the truth," "and not only, as in the ordeal, of justice and of truth at the same time."[9] In Yasna 31.19, "the man who thinks of aša, [...] who uses his tongue in order to speak correctly, [does so] with the aid of brilliant fire". In Yasna 34-44 devotees "ardently desire [Mazda's] mighty fire, through aša." In Yasna 43-44, Ahura Mazda "shall come to [Zoroaster] through the splendour of [Mazda's] fire, possessing the strength of (through) aša and good mind (=Vohu Manah)." That fire "possesses strength through aša" is repeated again in Yasna 43.4. In Yasna 43.9, Zoroaster, wishing to serve fire, gives his attention to aša. In Yasna 37.1, in a list of what are otherwise all physical creations, aša takes the place of fire.

Asha Vahishta's association with atar is carried forward in the post-Gathic texts, and they are often mentioned together. In Zoroastrian cosmogony, each of the Amesha Spentas represents one aspect of creation and one of seven primordial elements that in Zoroastrian tradition are the basis of that creation. In this matrix, aša/arta is the origin of fire, Avestan atar, which permeates through all Creation. The correspondence then is that aša/arta "penetrates all ethical life, as fire penetrates all physical being."[10]

In the liturgy Asha Vahishta is frequently invoked together with fire. (Yasna l.4, 2.4, 3.6, 4.9, 6.3, 7.6, 17.3, 22.6, 59.3, 62.3 etc). In one passage, fire is a protector of aša: "when the Evil Spirit assailed the creation of Good Truth, Good Thought and Fire intervened" (Yasht 13.77)

In later Zoroastrian tradition, Asha Vahishta is still at times identified with the fire of the household hearth.

[mayavin]

Hence when all such inventions were already established, the sciences
which do not aim at giving pleasure or at the necessities of life were
discovered, and first in the places where men first began to have leisure.
This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the
priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure.
...
It is evident, then, even from what we have said before, that all men
seem to seek the causes named in the Physics, and that we cannot name
any beyond these; but they seek these vaguely; and though in a sense
they have all been described before, in a sense they have not been
described at all. For the earliest philosophy is, on all subjects, like one
who lisps, since it is young and in its beginnings. For even Empedocles
says bone exists by virtue of the ratio in it. Now this is the essence and
the substance of the thing. But it is similarly necessary that flesh and each
of the other tissues should be the ratio of its elements, or that not one of
them should; for it is on account of this that both flesh and bone and
everything else will exist, and not on account of the matter, which he
names,-fire and earth and water and air. -Aristotle

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

put together soo wellit all falls apart

[the fire elf]

mood at the mercy of imagination

[mayavin]

Positive Disintegration

[mayavin]

To make it possible for scientists to describe nature mathematically,
Galileo postulated that they should restrict themselves to studying the
essential properties of material bodies—shapes, numbers, and
movement—which could be measured and quantified. Other properties,
like color, sound, taste, or smell, were merely subjective mental
projections, which should be excluded from the domain of science.

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

To make it possible
they should restrict themselves.

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it
differs from almost every other game. The primary activity of Nomic is
proposing changes in the rules, debating the wisdom of changing them in
that way, voting on the changes, deciding what can and cannot be done
afterwards, and doing it. Even this core of the game, of course, can be
changed.

[Simon of the Playa]

Lets Go Swimming !!!

[Ugly Dougly]

[Ugly Dougly]

[mayavin]

[mayavin]