First post February 28, 2022
Making Growing Thinking
https://youtu.be/FptmjWzj6Vw
How do you recognize a living organism when you see one? How do you distinguish it from an artificial artifact?
Form? Function? Imagine of a perfect robot and it is clear: This is not really helpful. So what describes a living organism? It might be the way it came into being. An artificial artifact got its form for the outside, a living organism from within. One ‘thing’ is made the other ‘thing’ grows.
-> Thinking is prior to making -> Thinking as part of the process marks the difference of making and growing, of what is an artifact and what is a being.
material world | human mind, and the thing in between, the thin layer that separates, the surface.
Objects of human manufacture: material culture: On the inside is stuff, on the outside is thought. Wow! – (This are of course just words, and the logic of words, but this play of words can provide us with different angles to look at and think.)
- Making : focus on product (“What are you making?”)
- Growing : focus on process (“What is going on here?”)
Ref. Heidegger Building, Dwelling, Thinking
Martin Heidegger – Vortrag “Bauen Wohnen Denken” (1951)
https://youtu.be/mqSSzgg5eio
“We should think quite differently about thinking itself.”
Conventional thinking: Start with the idea, end with the object. In the middle “stuff happens” growing. Idea and final form are the two “ends of making”.
Growing in(side of) Making.
TI argues to look at it the other way round: Making in(side of) Growing.
Idea, growing,
Adhere, cohere (weave)
With coherence things last (withstand time).
Henri Bergson – thinking is linked to solid.
Can there be a thinking that flows, that joins with the world (as fluids join solids)?
The psychology of cognition : Any new thought can only arise as new combinations of elements of old ones (-> Korsakow can help to create new connections between SNUs (elements of old thoughts) ) (ca min 22:00). Kaleidoskop. Fixed structure of mirrors. New patterns. “Every shake of the mind.” “In reality no mind is on its own.” 22:43
“A mind can only think the thoughts it does, because of what the world lends to it.”
23:27
“If we go back to the analogy of the Kaleidoscope, we find that thought lies not so much in the succession of patterns but in the shake itself – in the disturbance of the mind.”
-> Korsakow “shakes” the patterns (SNUs), while a K-film is played.
24:00
TI talks about pause. Fascinating! Pause a huge thing in Korsakow as well!
TI says thinking goes beyond thought, good! (Korsakow is not a thinking machine but it can help humans to think, like a pocket calculator helps them to do math).
32:55
“Generation of now.” (I am leaving the generation of now.) And the ones outside that generation can point to a more sustainable future.
34:43
“My academic colleagues are throwing up
their hands they don’t know what I’m
talking about.”
34:59
“We really have to to do something about
the way academics are trained to think
and to write because at the moment it’s
really driving out the creatives thought.
[..]
What I’ve been trying
to find, is a way of writing
that which shows that it is possible to
be a scholar and a theoretician and a
poet at the same time.
[..]
It shouldn’t be that that division and but
at the moment there is and it’s because
of the sorts of pressures that it that
are on the academic and research
environment.
-> Roger Kneebone “Thinking with your hands” surgeons and craft people