Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Epistemological Nightmarish Treadmill

Science, logical, and literal understanding lineinates cause and effect ideas.

You can understand things like by-laws, how-to-fix-computer-when-it-blue-screens, disarming-a-knife-attack-via-karate-move-#1, when-cells-process-energy.

The brain synapes follow a specific route.

A -> B -> C -> D

This can be taught, memorized, repeated, and printed.

Artistic, intuitive and representative understanding has no fixed path.

Therefore parables, metaphor, and abstraction is used to convey such understanding.

Brain synapes burst outward in all directions, seeking relative meanings, concepts, connections.

c
^
|
B <- A -> D
|
?

This cannot be taught, memorized, repeated, or printed.

It can only be alluded to.

Seeds can only be planted.

Fingers can only point the way.

These are ideas that are alive and can only be discovered but never captured.

No comments:

Post a Comment