A Facebook friend Joe Van Myers posted a paper by SCRWeightman called ‘The Domains of Discourse’ (Systematics Vol 7 December 1969). A previous paper contained a pyramid-shaped model which was intended to depict the relationship between Language, Speech and Meaning as mutually exclusive contributions to the supposed Unity of the experience of self:- ‘Self-unity’ is […]
Being an entirely personal account of a weekend spent on a course run by Robert & Deborah Dilts and in the company of splendid people… Everything is relative. Motorbiked 170 miles in pouring rain & poor visibility… I was so wet & cold when I got to the posh hotel in Cheltenham on Thursday on […]
Neuroscience and Architecture Anna-Maija Tuunanen wrote a paper on Neurophenomenological Approaches to Embodiment in Architecture. In the context of the 6th Annual Architecture Research Symposium (‘Designing & Planning the Built Environment for Human Well-Being’) 2014 her aim was to alert fellow architects to the relevance of neuroscience to architecture. Her main point was that, because […]
On 26th January 2013 my left hip was chopped out and replaced by a bit of bionic gadgetry. Remembering what it was like when I had the right hip done ten years ago, I had been putting this off for many months, preferring to suffer the relatively simple pain of putting one foot in front […]
Why do New Year Resolutions almost always come to nothing? One reason, rarely acknowledged, is that the ‘I’ that makes a resolution, whenever it makes one, is not the same ‘I’ that defines the scope of the resolution which is not the same ‘I’ that has to set about carrying out the resolution which is […]
Nothing New Under the Sun As I get older and older I notice that the same old ideas keep on circulating round the world as though they were brand new—never been thought before… A good friend of mine says that the old books contain everything you need. I agree and I have even seriously contemplated […]
A huge three-year project is all over bar the shouting. For the last four weeks, as things drew to a close, I’ve been lining up all the things I’ll be able to turn my attention to when I’d done with it. The very first thing on the list was to have a grand clearout of […]
Making a Heap into a System You can have a heap of ideas—most people, including myself, do—this one, that one & several others all higgledy-piggledy; it’s possible that they may be connected in some way—everything is sub specie aeternitatis—but when they are in a heap all the possible connections are difficult, if not impossible, to […]
How is it that mentally we hold on to some things (remembering thoughts, ideas, images, experiences) in life and not others? What is it that contributes to our holding some things close to our central being and not others? How is it that people we know hold on to some things (thoughts, ideas, experiences) that […]
Make a determined effort to capture it, right now! It’s a slippery customer, isn’t it? As soon as you shift your attention from this flow of words and begin to stretch out your hands (as it were) to capture whatever it might be wherever it is it eludes your grasp, doesn’t it? If you deny […]
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