19 FEB 2015 by ideonexus
All Art is Plagiarism
Any text is woven entirely with citations, references, echoes, cultural languages, which cut across it through and through in a vast stereophony. The citations that go to make up a text are anonymous, untraceable, and yet already read; they are quotations without inverted commas. The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are secondhand, consciously and unco...30 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
The Brain Making Sense of an Orchestra
But our unconscious feats of unweaving and weaving are greater even
than this. Think what is happening when you listen to a whole orchestra.
Imagine that, superimposed on a hundred instruments, your neighbour
in the concert is whispering learned music criticism in your ear, others
are coughing and, lamentably, somebody behind you is rustling a
chocolate wrapper. All these sounds, simultaneously, are vibrating your
eardrum and they are summed into a single, very complicated wriggling
wave of p...03 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
A Thought is Like Film Being Exposed Over and Over
A thought is a system, and is inherently conceptual-though often
only dimly and confusedly conceptual at the moment of first
awareness of the as yet only vaguely describable thinking activity.
Because total universe is nonsimultaneous it is not conceptual.
Conceptuality is produced by isolation, such as in the instance of
one single, static picture held out from a moving-picture film's
continuity, or scenario. Universe is an evolutionary-process
scenario without beginning or end, because the ...Each new exposure layers onto the old, with echoes of the old still faintly visible. The Universe shares this characteristic over time.
21 MAR 2012 by ideonexus
The Earth as an "Old Warrior"
Our earth is very old, an old warrior that has lived through many battles. Nevertheless, the face of it is still changing, and science sees no certain limit of time for its stately evolution. Our solid earth, apparently so stable, inert, and finished, is changing, mobile, and still evolving. Its major quakings are largely the echoes of that divine far-off event, the building of our noble mountains. The lava floods and intriguing volcanoes tell us of the plasticity, mobility, of the deep inter...Folksonomies: metaphor earth science
Folksonomies: metaphor earth science
It's many features the weathering on it's face and its scars.