Motors

I haven't played with a motor in over 10 years - and Make blog has been making me jealous lately with all their toys. It makes me want to do something, anything, that skitters around and plays with the basic elements of electronics.

Electromagnetic motor #1

Electromagnetic motor #2

linky

ancient scripts archive and cool stuff
rotational force

japanese paper dimensions
Digital behaviours and generative music cool mathematical/artistic images here.

the beauty in the universe

Marie Winger-Meyer 1/7/2007 10:20 am


I never felt special -- instead I felt -- different. Like I was right in some way I should be - and everyone else just didn't get it. And since no one else was 'open' there - I tried my hardest to shut it down. That is -- until I went to the college and discovered the drawings.

There were always littler ways it 'got out/made itself clear' to me before - I couldn't change what I was - just what I did with "what was me." But the drawings made themselves LOUD AND CLEAR - no denying it - no 'voices' or 'visions' - just a sincere sense of ("what you are doing right here - it is the beautiful thing - do it until you finish -- when it is done - it will be apparent when it is finished - and it should be finished and finished to its true completion.")

and so the art became both the medium and the messages and the teacher of many things -- by suggestion, not by force. [I still love that feeling |[-|x-F-© makes me feel it)

And over time the messages have changed much - I would expect no less from it - it tells me more about truth, beauty and being than anything else -- and then tells in its way [[when and sometimes how, or no direction at all -- that wisdom of this message so beautiful in itself]] to go out into the world and seek and practice -- for I am not only the container - but also the medium - and the motivator. If in it I did not feel motivation to comply - I wouldn't. It is by this simple revelation and truth that I comply at all - and when the ties/(threads?) of the world fight or (comply as well)agree -- then -- beauty is in the fight or the singing -- the synchronicity and the harmony - which is the closest thing I can identify - physically - with here in this [container - body - medium] -- all the rest of life is the threads that others weave - and often they are in discord [[not to say mine at times aren't for I am not an expert at following (the) beauty -- only a continuous learner -- there is too much to learn for any one soul - it is expressed by all -- at once -- in different ways - and also, *sadly* is the "opposite of the beauty" *sadly* which by its nature - seeks to balance?) and thus I must always twist my [strings - my weaving - my life - my song] around/about what is already constructed.

this is being - this is existing - to be within the song and the singing at once - and the turning - and the flowing of the time in the universe. It is to make the time beautiful in its own unfolding from the point where it passes over and within you.. over and over, listening and internally 'singing' the song of the Universe, as best to your knowledge, ability and motivation.

very hard to describe, but this is my best.

This passage floored me today...

Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil.

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Indeed, to understand how the abstrusest metaphysical assertions of a philosopher have been arrived at, it is always well (and wise) to first ask onselef: "What morality to they (or he) aim at?" Accordingly, I do not believe that an "impulse to knowledge: is the father of philosophy; but that another impulse, here as elsewhere, has only made use of knowledge (and mistaken knowledge) as an instrument. But whatever considers the fundamental impulses of man with a view to determining how far they may have here acted as inspiring genii (or as demons and cobolds), will find that they have all practised philosophy at one time or another, and that each one of them would have been only too glad to look upon itself as the ultimate end of existence and the legitimate lord over all the other impulses.

For every impulse is imperious, and as such, attempts to philosophize. To be sure, in the case of scholars, in the case of really scientific men, it may be otherwise -- "better," if you will; there may really be such a thing as an "impulse to knowledge," some kind of small, independent clock-work, which when well sound up, works away industriously to that end, without the rest of the scholarly impulses taking any material part wherein. The actual "interests" of the scholar, therefore, are generally in quite another direction -- in teh family, perhaps, or in money-making, or in politics; it is, in fact, almost indifferent at what point of research his little machine is placed, and whether the hopeful young worker becomes a good philologist, a mushroom specialist, or a chemist; her is not characterized by becoming this or that. In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS, -- that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

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floored me:

1. Impulses acting as genii and demons.
2. The clockwork of the impulse to knowledge, set in motion - by what? Not specific - but the result is still a search for knowledge.
3. In What ORDER the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other. Such that his morality defines who he is by the order of the deepest impulses (deciding which are acceptable and which are to what ends.)

More on neurons and related subject

signal transduction - the cascading of signals is very relevant to electricity outside of the brain - such as in electronic or robotic things - and can be the beginning of something very interesting, even on a small simulation in a program type of beginning.

reference: neural net

more interesting: Neurons - and synaptic transmission - the way photoreceptors process information about light and colour in the environment transmitting light in its intensity and wavelength to something that is recognized in a dual process (rods and cones) and reformulated into information about the environment in the mindboggling miracle of the human (or animal) eye.

mathematical musings

Quadratic equation - in program, it is said that we do not need to test if the discriminant is less than 0, why is this. -- "Thus the roots are distinct, if and only if the discriminant is non-zero, and the roots are real, if and only if the discriminant is non-negative." Thus, if the discriminant is negative, the values returned will not be real numbers, and thus will not be able to be presented by the program? No, because we have tested if the result is positive, and if the absolute value of it is less than 0. If it has failed those two tests, it is a negative number and thus will produce non-real roots (complex).

Other:
positive and negative number facts

brain language links

Neurolinguistics and article (semantic processing in music and words).

Cognitive neuroscience

                      Plato
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  Descartes -?- Kant   |
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Schopenhauer__/________|

Chomsky

visual imaging in the brain - cognitive processes and psycholinguistics.

links, and a strange dyslexia I am experiencing

Equanimity, Charisma, Enlightenment, satori, asceticism,

Ocular dominance and Anisometropia and cross-dominance.

Other Notes: I have farsightedness in my left eye, and nearsightedness in my right eye. Before I began to wear glasses, my art teachers noticed a decided 'slant' to some of my work, especially when concerning the human body. I would reverse hands on the figure without noticing the problem.

I favour my right hand for most tasks - but can use my left hand for legible writing and taking up of other tasks more convenient to the left (shooting across the table in pool - grabbing something that is falling etc.) I am decidedly left-leg dominant (aches after a walk of several miles to a much greater degree when the muscles are not used to the activity).

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Personal Note: There are two things that assist me in reading comprehension - that is, to absorb deep or difficult material with certainty that it has been understood.

method 1: To read at normal pace, and - when something particularily seems important and/or difficult to wrap my head around, to write it out with my right hand while looking at it with my dominant left eye.

method 2: To put on wordless flowing music (classical strings or orchestral are perfect for this) at a medium tone. I believe that this occupies my right brain just enough that it relinquishes some dominance over the reading of the text to the left brain - which can better deal with the language concepts. This is not always practical - but for true study, it is useful.

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However - since I have a strange ability to draw large works, possessing of often literal symbolic translations - perhaps all of this shows some that my right brain takes a part in my language processing, moreso than is normal or average - and perhaps it has interfered with some of my learning in the past.

When I was six years old in the first grade, my teacher came to the house to speak with my mother. I was not learning to read as quickly as my peers - even though I seemed to pick up on things very quickly in general - there were certain elements that seemed very difficult, specifically words where the letters were unlike their sounds (laugh, cough, other, hour) etc.

My mother does not read or write very well, either - but she is a very artistic person. After speaking with my mother - the teacher began private tutoring with me She brought me a set of books, which were to be read in order - and a children's Bible. I did a lot of extra reading practice - out loud, and silently. Before the halfway point of the year (midterm) - I was promoted to the advanced reading group within the class. (Mrs. Nikki Holden - I am still in your debt for this, although I have not seen you since this time and I know you have passed away.)

This was also the time we were learning to write - and several of my letters, although appearing forwards, were drawn in reverse order of what was taught - starting a letter 'B' at the bottom right, or a letter 'N' at the right side going to the left. I still catch myself doing this on occasion - and can write legibly with my left hand, and backwards legibly with my right hand, as well as forwards.

Something about all of this - not the typical dyslexia, but something akin to it - is still being experienced in my adult life. It is not exactly hampering - and can even be helpful - if I learn where to improve it(where it is deficient from 'normal') and where it excels.