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Henry Gurr’s Talk (OriginHO3), Was At => South Atlantic Coast Section (SACS), American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), Spring 2014 Meeting Program. Spelman College, Atlanta, GA March 21-22, 2014.)) This talk was titled => The Flash of Insight” .... ***AHA*** .... Like The Tip Of An Iceberg ... Can Reliably Indicate That There Is Something Very BIG Below: But Just Because You Can’t See What’s Down There, Causing It, Doesn’t Mean It Doesn’t Exist, or Isn’t Important!! ''
... Also Discussed In This Talk => An overall understanding of a topic, especially in science, have been called a “Paradigms”, ever since 1962, Thomas Kuhn’s Book, “\The Structure of Scientific Revolutions On this page you should “Think of Kuhn Paradigm, whenever you see words => “World View”. ... ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS TALK => You Can Best Understand the Operations Of Yout Own Mind, At The Most Basic Level, By Studying Princeton Physicist J J Hopfield’s Physical Mathematical Theory For The Mammalian Brain Mechanism, HereIn Called ”The Hopfield Mathematical Model Of the Human Brain” =>
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APPENDIX I Constructivism. (More Information About OriginHO3 Henry S Gurr’s List of Mental Arrivals.) I Coin A New Term => “Radical, Radical Constructivism”. My Take-Off From Radical Constructivism by Ernst Von Glasserfield.
I Coin A SECOND New Term => “Radical, Radical, Radical Constructivism”. My 2nd Take-Off From Glasserfield Above.
1) Be a Partial Fit General Problem Solver Brain, where as stated in NOTE 1 below: “It is useful and revealing to consider everything our mammalian brain does, is “Automatic Spontaneous Problem Solving”.
2) Where, In response to life’s problems coming at us (over ~95 percent of the time), our Problem Solving Brain, very quickly, Generates, Constructs (Constructivism) Creates Valid Problem Solutions (Answers), which Mentally Arrive into our conscious mind, and amazingly are the Best Or Near Best Answers, for the problems presented.
3) Where the Achieved Solutions to problems, will be learned, and the learned solutions, are permanently added to memory, and thus get gradually built up into an integrated Constructed World View
4) Hence my name (and meaning) “Radical, Radical Constructivism”!
5) Keeping in mind the virtues of the above-mentioned Partial Fit General Problem Solver Brain, it is to be understood that this document, and particularly the below List of Mental Arrivals, is ~observed data, in support of the hereabouts discussion re The Problem Solving Brain.
BOTTOM LINE #2: Above are the reasons, I coin an-extended-new-term => “Radical, Radical, Radical, Constructivism”.
NEW TOPIC: In My Mind Princeton U Professor J. J. Hopfield Shows Us How Our Brain Works On The Inside, Is The Most Productive Way To Understand How A Physical System (Mammalian Brain), Can Find These Optimal (Best Or Near Best) Solutions, And Thus, At The Most Basic Level, Is An Excellent Foundation Explanation Of How Our Mind Works!!
6) The whole Arena Called Constructivism!! And
7) Gives us a Physical Theory that supports in most ways, what Robert Pirsig says how our brain nearly always recognizes “What Is BEST” and in general responds to keep us on “The Quality Track Ahead of Us” !! See additional explanation at NOTE 2 below: =>
8) The Hopfield Physics Based Neural Network Model, With A Quite General Mathematical Proof, Shows Just How A Real, Physical Collection Of Interconnected Biological Neurons, Automatically Spontaneously, Following Its Own Internal Quality Criterion, Might Truly And Reliably Be Able To Find Such “Near Best” Solutions.
BOTTOM LINE #3: Hopfield’s Model, shows us how our brain works on the inside, is the most productive way to understand how A Physical System (Mammalian Brain), can find these Optimal (Best or Near Best) Solutions, and thus is an excellent Foundation Explanation of How Our Mind Works. Just wonderful!! :-)) :-)) SIDE NOTE: Here Is How =>I Came to My Own Sudden ***AHA*** Realization Trail => My own Track of Quality! AND Thereby Find, More Highly Recommended Reading, At Three Links Next Below. To get more information (for the above), I Google On Topic of Constructivism, and studied about 8 of the WebPages Google Found. . When done, I Left Up On My Computer Screen, two most interesting Links (The TOP two below). My Plan Was To Additionally Study These Two Links Later, Fully Expecting More Realizations, Discoveries, & Mental Arrivals!!), I Thus Next-Morning, Purposefully, I Take The Time To Dig Deeper & Re-View These Two Wikipedia Pages. Here’s What Happened =>
Suddenly, I Have My Own ***AHA*** Realization Trail = My own Track of Quality! 1) These pages well capture my-own-self-arrived-at Philosophy Of Teaching & Methods!!
2) This thought, slides to **AHA** => Hooray!!
3) This means my (own) book on this, topic “Is already written!!”
5) And I’m off the hook to have to write any of this Constructivist Teaching Topic myself!!
6) Arrives a Big Wave of Relief!!!
7) Because I have way more to “get-into-print”, than I have a lifetime for!!
8) Added bonus => In the above mentioned Google, I also found the third link below. It lead to a Webpage with topic “Constructivism in philosophy of science”, which favorably discussed the significant points of Thomas Kuhn’s Book, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” Digging deeper (and learning deeper), I eventually purchased this most important book. To cut it short Professor Thomas Kuhn’s Whole Book Is About The In’s And Out’s of => The Mental Framework called a Scientific Paradigm: Also We Can Well See History Of Perceptual Blindness, What Is Necessary For Scientists To Eventually Achieve Needed Mental Arrivals, & Especially the Flash-Of-Insight!!
Teachers must study first
((NOTE THIS WELL => IF I had I NOT gone back to these same two pages, I would NEVER have had the Arrivals 1) thru 7) above, and I STILL would be ON-THE-HOOK, to write a Constructivist Teaching Manual!! :-)) :-)) END APPENDIX I Constructivism. (More Information About OriginHO3 Henry S Gurr’s List of Mental Arrivals.)
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APPENDIX II An ADDED Introduction To Mental Arrivals. (More Information About OriginHO3 Henry S Gurr’s List of Mental Arrivals.) AN ADDED TWO PAGE INTRODUCTION TO HENRY GURR’S LIST OF MENTAL ARRIVALS Beyond What Is On My Larger OriginHO3 Page => This Is Added Explanation, To Help You Understand “An Anatomy of An Idea Come to Mind” !!
… The purpose of this original larger OriginHO3 page called, “Henry Gurr’s Original “26 Major Catagory => “Lists Of Mental Arrivals” Document”, is to show how clear observed cases of the mental phenomenon called a "Flash of Insight", merge (with no boundary), into ordinary thought and conversation. Correspondingly, this document illustrates words, phrases or exclamations, that indicate “Mental Arrival(s)”, in the mind of person making such statements.
There Is As Yet No Single Commonly Accepted Name For The Type Of Mental Arrival Events Such As **AHA** "Flash Of Insight", Eureka, Epiphany, It Dawned On Me, Light Bulb, Etc However, A Mental Arrival” In A Person’s Mind Can Be Identified By A Person’s Sudden Speaking, Of Noteworthy Phrases Or Exclamations.
“A word is a conceptual system in which the letters do not enter consciousness separately, as they do when apprehended alone. ….. The conceptual system may mean many [a great variety of] sensible objects, [and] may later be translated into them, but as an actual existent mental state, it does not consist of the consciousness’s of these objects [considered separately].”
NOTE 1: For Books Which Are Excellent Brain Owner’s User Manuals, I highly recommend Mr. Robert Pirsig’s books, both ZMM & LILA: These are “Hand Books For Efficient ‘Getting-On-With-It’” in: Physics Research, Teaching, and Personal Life” !! NOTE 2: As Stated In My Various Talks Concerning Princeton Physicist J J Hopfield’s Model of the Mammalian Brain”: “It is useful and revealing to consider everything our mammalian brain does, to be “Problem Solving”.''' In other words, our brain (like those of all animals), is a General Problem Solver (GPS). In this view, “Mental Arrivals”, are successive “Partial Fit Solutions To Problems”, which Generates, Constructs, (Constructivism) Creates Into Conscious Mind, Best Or Near Best Solutions For Life’s Oncoming Problems: second by second, guiding that person’s life, in thought and action. Just How Our Problem Solving Brain Can Generates, Constructs (Constructivism), Creates Mental Arrival Solutions (Answers), May Be Understood By A Study Of => Henry Gurr’s Theory (Explanation) Of How Our Mind Works”
… And we can understand from this theory, how a physical system, automatically spontaneously can self-organize, to be dynamic problem solvers!! Where each solution, is a “brain state”, which often we recognize (subsequently) as a Mental Arrival in our Conscious Mind: Hence This Hypothesis, of the Philosophic Etymology, Called Constructivism.
And At Its Most Basic Level, To See Just How Our Problem Solving Brean Can Find Best Or Near Best Solutions, Is Best Understood Through Study Of J J Hopfield’s Mathematical Model Of The Mammalian Brain, Wherein Hopfield Effectively Shows Us How Our Mind Works:
NOTE 3: My Henry Gurr’s Discovery OF J J Hopfield’s Mathematical Theory Of Brain Operation =>
NOTE 4: When Physics Professor Hopfield’s theory came out ~1982 (and continuing ever since) there blossomed a huge literature concerning, how to apply his theory to artificial intelligence, and most especially self-learning systems. These so called Neuronal Network Systems (although most naturally achieved on “hard-wired Neuronal Networks) were simulated (comparatively the hard way), on large digital computers. Compared to this huge literature, I can’t find literature re specific applications of Hopfield Theory otherwise! Yes … and I know … this is hard to believe!! Thus …. If you know of any discussion, anywhere resembling this document (or anywhere on this my ZMMQ WebSite) Please let me know right away: No clue or hint is too small. This includes, books, articles, persons stories, stray typed documents, newspaper scrap, etc!! Foreign language is OK!!! Please 'Send Email To => HenryG__USCA.edu
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Below Is My Listing Of The Twenty Seven Intellectual Fields, I Have Discovered To Date, That Are Illuminated By My => Henry Gurr’s “-Theory (Explanation) Of How Our Mind Works” :
NOTE 5 As stated in NOTE 3 above, You will see that in OriginHO3, Henry Gurr’s 26 Major Category => “Lists Of Mental Arrivals”, .goes off into many areas (fields) of “knowledge”: This is a simple (and good), consequence of the fact that “An Investigation of the Applicable Areas of Henry Gurr’s “Theory (Explanation) Of How Our Mind Works”, naturally applies to ALL areas of human knowing!! NOTE 6: A Surprising Fact, Concerning The Process Of Writing This WebPage You Are Currently Reading: Despite the fact that I’ve long known the ABOVE NOTE 5, I’m actually surprised to see, how this WebPage (you are currently reading), has continued to grow and meander, off into so many fields of human knowledge”!!“I shouldn’t have been surprised, because it’s the same reason that: Henry Gurr’s “Theory (Explanation) Of How Our Mind Works”, of course, applies to any human activity!! (Some examples are listed next.) NOTE 7: This document mainly is concerned with successful and wanted Mental Arrivals. This is because, most of the time, our brains are marvelously fast & correct
You are intending to do one thing but find yourself doing something else (possibly similar)!---->You intend driving to your new job route, but just out the drive way, by habit turn opposite!
Concerning these failures, I will write a separate document. But here suffice it to say these words to the wise … 1) Be sure to notice, and remember your Mental Failures, when they happen. Make notes, and study why the error was made. With care and attention, you can learn to avoid many.. Especially for those cases which statistically are most numerous: We clearly are obliged, to learn about these, and add to our tool box of what to watch for.
2) Not all Mental Errors, are necessary bad, or un-wanted. I believe a certain low level rate or errors is our evolutionary heritage and left this way, so to speak somewhat on purpose (Although “purpose” should NOT ever be ascribed to Biological Evolution)
a) First off, it is just too hard Evolutionary Evo Devo to reduce error rate below the existing. That we see. And
b) Errors have constructive virtues: They show NEW responses, that may be BETTER, than what normally happens in a certain circumstance. It is up to us to notice why it happened, because this may show a new, unknown, pathway. And what happened, needs to be examined to see if a new idea, method, result is there that again was un-known.
c) It is possible that we have been making erroneous wrong decisions, for a long time. A sudden departure from our norm, due to what is first considered “an error”, may in fact be a correction, to what was our former long-time error!!
d) This Brings To Mind The So The Called Freudian Slip. Wikipedia says “A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed") subdued wish, conflict, or train of thought ... “ Many think A Freudian slip, reveals persons secret darker illicit nature, hidden in UNconscious … I think (hypothesis), that these are just and merely, due to our normal brain errors, and are especially noticed (and thus especially remembered), because titillating, revealing, humorous. or embarrassing. … Plus: Yes these indeed such do come from the UN-conscious, because that is where (my hypothesis), that is where, 95% of our brain work is done, with only 5%, used for conscious awareness. This naturally explains (no dark revelations), the fact that such thoughts were indeed, NOT on the persons mind at the time, and clearly do come from the persons previous experience & thoughts, repressed of not.
And ... Oh Yes!, Oh-Ho!!, AHA!!!, Just Realized!!!! =>
Freudian Slips (Whether Mental Errors Or Not), Are Excellent Examples Of Mental Arrivals!! NOTE 8: In Offering This Henry Gurr’s Original “26 Major Category => “Lists Of Mental Arrivals”, No Claim Is Made That It Is => Adequate, well stated, logically organized, or appropriately complete. … You will see that these Mental Arrivals, have been somewhat listed, in order of observed intensity. Often Mental Arrivals”, as mental responses, are merely called "Insight":
SUMMARY => Mental Arrivals, in a person’s mind, sometimes happen when a person’s troubles or problems are resolved by a Flash of Insight **AHA** or Similar. This event in a person, is indicated by => Sudden, unexpected, changes (even reversals), of person’s behavior, body posture, and face expression FOR EXAMPLE, HERE IS WHAT TO WATCH FOR => 1) Motionless, Hang-Dog Posture, Hazy Eyes, Frowns, Troubled Eyebrows & Face …
That are suddenly ….
In An Instant …. Replaced By => 2) Instant Smile, Laughter, Showing Of Pleasure Plus => Throwing Of Head + Body, Back,
3) Followed by Expressions Of Word Excitement Or Other Indications Of Pleasure Or Success!!!
This happens because their Puzzle(s), Or Troubles, Or Problems => Were suddenly automatically spontaneously solved (or resolved), resulting in happiness, and feeling of success!! ((If you are still confused, send me an email. Click “Contact Me, in the footer at the bottom of this (and every) page this site. ))
END APPENDIX II An Added Two Page Introduction To Mental Arrivals, which offered => More Information About OriginHO3 Henry S Gurr’s List of Mental Arrivals.
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APPENDIX III A Four Page Introduction, Plus A List of Quick Tip-Offs To Mental Arrivals. (More Information About OriginHO3 Henry S Gurr’s List of Mental Arrivals.) Back On OriginHO3, Showing “26 Major Catagory “Lists Of Mental Arrivals”, You Just Saw That => List A) Was Given FIRST, And Included Such As => The Light Came On!!--It Dawned On Me!!-- Flash Of Insight !! ***AHA*** !!
1) Please keep in mind that each of these “ Mental Arrivals”, Are Indicators Of “Successful Problem Solutions”, The perception of which is one of the marvels of how our brain works.
2 ) AND when you happen to notice a Mental Arrival (in yourself or another person) => As each of these flows into conscious mind, please keep noticing THE RIGHT NOW ----HAPPENING, SPLIT SECOND BY SPLIT SECOND, AS THEY AS THEY “ARRIVE” IN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS.
3) Of Course there are LESSER Dramatic Mental Arrivals, in a person’s mind, happens when a person, has been relaxing, thinking, and a new realization (or useful idea) came into their mind.
… Thus, for most Mental Arrivals => You may not-especially-notice, any change in the person’s behavior. Without any visible change in face-expression (or body-posture), They may (perhaps suddenly), just start talking, or perhaps start a new sentence, or somehow suddenly interrupt, & change other topic, perhaps because they just remembered something they had been wanting to say. Or perhaps, their mind has hit-upon one of their favorite gripes! Or larger issues in their life: Particularly sensitive emotional topic, such as: trouble at school, friends, or family, or nasty boss, or recent personal problems; Financial loss, divorce, death, Etc. There are reasons (trivial – earthshaking), where a person has an automatic “knee-jerk’ reaction. .... So you just learn to watch ... you will see (in yourself and others), “the changes that mean a Mental Arrival”!! Since in most MA’S => You may not-especially-notice, any change in the person’s behavior, you need some Quick-Tip-off’s That Indicate A Mental Arrival (MA)
HINT => .YOU WILL FIND THAT …. “OH!” …(PLUS A PAUSE) IS USED THE MOST OFFEN !!! '''Either way, start watching for the Typical “Tip-Off’s”below:
NOW: So As To DEMONSTRATE My Above 2) Sentences
Please scroll down the listed words, &
Slowly ... Thoughtfully ....Say Each Aloud, With Exclamation !!!
Please keep noticing THE RIGHT NOW ----HAPPENING, SPLIT SECOND BY SPLIT SECOND, AS THEY AS EACH “ARRIVEs” IN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS =>
Oh … ........................ Oh … I just had idea!! ...OR…Oh, I see what you mean. …
a) Constant push to ”cancel who you are!! (To resist this, you must handle both what you are,
Plus b) Constantly pushing it’s priorities onto you. You must become => Consciously aware of: (By Mental Arrivals!!) how society’s goals are foisted onto you, without your awareness!! It’s societies steady atmospheric balm that accomplishes an UN-Conscious Shaping & Trimming!!
END APPENDIX III Introduction + Quick Tip-Offs To Mental Arrivals, which offered => More Information About OriginHO3 Henry S Gurr’s List of Mental Arrivals.
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APPENDIX IV Mental Arrivals Where: Seeing, Hearing, Touch (Even Fragrance & Taste Deja-Vu), Can Initiate New Perceptions Arriving In Conscious Awareness: With Added Examples From ZMM and HSG’s Experience. (More Information About OriginHO3 Henry S Gurr’s List of Mental Arrivals.) I suddenly, just noticed, for the first time!
I just spotted the missing tool …
My eyes landed it!! … Or …
My eyes laid on it.
Hearing her voice reminded me ...
Another Example Of Mental Arrival: In This Case, Literally ”Hair Raising! =.> '
Another Example Of Mental Arriva: In This Case, Awed By Nature! =.> '
Be Calm, Peaceful, & Wait … Inspiration WILL Come. Robert Pirsig Says Something Like “You Must Be Peaceful (Have Peace Of Mind), Or Your Motorcycle Can Not Be Fixed!”:
Another Example Of Mental Arrival: On Automatic My Walking Suddenly Stopped, & My Gaze Was Fixated On The Snake! I Was Just About To Step On It!! Another Example Of Mental Arrival: I Never Saw This Type Of Flowering Plant, Until You Pointed It Out To Me: Now I See It All The Time! It’s Everywhere!! Another Example Of Mental Arrival: After First Seeing An Idea (Or A Physical Item), You Are Surprised To See It All Around, Everywhere!! '''
As Seen In Above Examples, Automatic Spontaneous Mental Arrivals Are Almost A Rule For Looking and Seeing, but closely related to the ever upward “Learning Spiral” for Attention > Learning > Knowledge > Understanding > Fun > Interest > & Back To Attention!! => I’ve Tried to Emphasize to My Students This => “Learning + Interest + Attention Spiral”
Although, I’ve seen several important instances of the above LIA Learning Spiral, it most recently dramatically applies to my (HSG) own recent thinking & learning about the Princeton Physicist JJ Hopfield’s Theory, and it’s implications. . Please see my examples at above NOTES 3, 5, & 6. END APPENDIX IV H) Mental Arrivals Where: Seeing, Hearing, Touch, Can Initiate New Perceptions Arriving In Conscious Awareness: With Added Examples From ZMM and HSG’s Experience, which offered => More Information About OriginHO3 Henry S Gurr’s List of Mental Arrivals.
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APPENDIX V HSG’s Listed Mental Arrivals, and Relations =>
A) Waxing Poetic!! Owen Barfield Concludes: “Only an imaginary voice [our imagination] can do this [“the extras of poetry”]; for more than sounds went to the creating of that music, and it takes more than an ear-drum to hear it.” Owen Barfield passages above, are from his book Poetic Diction: Any Writing By Barfield Is Highly Recommended, Most Especially His Book Poetic Diction, about which Barfield Expert Professor G. B. Tennyson said => “This extraordinary study stands virtually alone in focusing on the mysterious area in poetry between words and meaning. Only the most sensitive and learned guides could lead us through this terra incognita. Barfield is such a guide ... The book has already become a classic."—
Another Expert, Poet Laureate Howard Nemerov Says => “Among the few poets and teachers of my acquaintance who [know Barfield’s book] "Poetic Diction", it has been valued not only as a secret book, but nearly as a sacred one; with a certain sense that it's teaching was quite properly esoteric. ...... It is to the student willing to open this question of the imagination again, to a candid exploration, that Owen Barfield's book is directed.”--
The Relation of Poetry & Metaphor To Henry Gurr => “-Theory (Explanation) Of How Our Mind Works” ''.
… As an extension of the above, and a major frame idea, I tell my readers => “It is useful and revealing to consider everything our mammalian brain does, to be “Problem Solving”. In other words, our brain (like those of all animals), is a General Problem Solver. In this view, “Mental Arrival”, are successive “Problem Solving Brain Solutions To Problems Coming At Us”, second by second, guiding that person’s life, in thought and action.
In My Opinion => Our brain’s largest part (~95%) operates (on purpose) completely UN-consciously!! This is what I call “our real brain”, because it basically (on-automatic & spontaneously), runs our whole body!! And our UNconscious Brain Processes, presents to our Conscious Mind, already completed decisions (Problem Solutions) to our conscious mind. => These “appear” (as Mental Arrivals) into our Conscious Mind, which we all tyoically call “Our Mind” (This is about ~5% of our brain, and is almost an evolutionary after-thought.).
…We thus ONLY become aware of our Problem Solving Brain’s problem solutions (i.e. decisions, answers), which have ALREADY happened, in agreement with what psychology has actually factually established!!
MORE DISCUSSION OF => The Relation of Poetry & Metaphor To Henry Gurr => “-Theory (Explanation) Of How Our Mind Works” ''.
EXPLANATION: Below You Will See An Email By Literature & French Professor Stanly Levine, Which Is => In Response To The Idea => “A line of Poetry, is a Mental Arrival” .
… ''Each line of poetry as an individual mental arrival is perhaps the most interesting to me. Nevertheless, this idea needs further reflection. As stated, it is too rigid. Not all poems proceed line by line. There are mental arrivals, if I understand what you mean by that term, within a line: [There] could be a little, as the way two words play with / against each other, so [therefore] a much smaller unit. Even more, there are thought units and imagination units to go beyond one line. (It also ignores the element of rhyme which was the building block, if not the definition, of poetry from about the 14th to the mid-20th century, and is still used for certain effects by numerous contemporary poets. Rhyme can only be understood in the context of a couplet, a quatrain or an entire strophe. But that is a separate discussion.)”
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
… As I re-read it just now, I began to reconsider my original ideas, and see that there is something, at least in this text, to the idea that each line adds another something, or rather “tickles” the mind. (Also this could be in a new direction, or in a slightly new direction, continuing and reinforcing the direction it was already on, adding a shading to where the mind had been or ….)
… For the reader to get to that point, takes a bit of familiarity with the medium, and a mind-set which is not rigidly confined to the straight-jacket of logic [what I would have called the mathematical or the engineering mind-set -- except that since elementary school math I have spoken with real mathematicians who have made me understand that there is a lot more to the field of mathematics than just mechanical calculation]. Many people never develop a satisfying interface with poetry, and just abandon the effort. (The press run for a volume of new poetry is miniscule.) I personally am often at a loss to read a newly minted poem, for example a poem I might encounter in the New Yorker, cannot find the poetry in it, or the meaning or its reason for being, and revert to one of the two beginner’s approaches mentioned above. … Indeed, at this stage in my life, at least, I find it more rewarding to read contemporary poetry written in a language I have learned (French and Yiddish are probably the only two where I am fluent enough to fully enter the poet’s world, but I can with enough motivation also attack poetry in German and Spanish and get something out of it), more than in my native English, as counter-intuitive as that may sound. I have noticed this for many years, but have never completely thought it out. One element is that one reads more slowly in a learned language – perhaps that is helpful because the slower pace allows the unconscious mind to do more work, while the conscious brain is reading analytically.
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… This speaks to me as a reader of poetry. Even if I might not correctly understand some of the terms such as “holistic’ which I assume means ‘as a whole’. … I must admit that when I read a poem, I don’t get the same ‘tingling’ sensation very often, if at all, as with the analogy of falling in love, even for poems that profoundly affect me. But perhaps I am interpreting ‘tingling’ too literally. (I myself, I realize, have used the term ‘tickling’ in a sense other than the neurological.)
In The Following Quote:
I am bothered by the word “truth.” Whether a metaphor has meaning is different than whether it is true. To quote a famous American poet (Archibald Macleish?) “a poem should not mean but be.” As In The Following Full Text: Ars Poetica
Dumb
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
A poem should be wordless
*** A poem should be motionless in time
Leaving, as the moon releases
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
A poem should be motionless in time
*** A poem should be equal to:
For all the history of grief
For love
A poem should not mean
I have been at this for two hours now, and it is time to try to go back to sleep if I am to be functional tomorrow. *** END EMAIL ***
In Response to my request for an Owen Barfield quoted passage, Kenneth McClure, Emailed 9/29/14 Suggestions, To Which We Can Only Agree!! [Mr McClure is a Writer & Barfield Expert. ... The accurate (quoted passage), citation was needed for the Title of This Barfield Discussion, ~20” above, and next down => ]
“You asked for a Barfield citation to where he says, something to the effect: "Words mean more than they say." “I do not have the cite, but I would point to Speaker's Meaning as a prolonged meditation on this idea. What "words mean" at any given moment is their lexical meaning or dictionary definition; the "more" will be invested in them by the speaker's meaning. Words may take on "the form of things unknown" in virtue of the creative energies of what Barfield is calling "the speaker." We might just as well call him "the poet." I think Owen would be quick to remind us that the tension between lexical meaning and speaker's meaning is not a contradiction but a polarity. And if ever there was a word that means more than it says it is the word "polarity" when spoken by Owen Barfield! “Looked at from another angle, Barfield's "speaker" might be Charles Peirce's "interpretant." The same creative energies are at work. Is it not the work of the interpretant that turns two-termed dyadic meaning into triadic meaning? Furthermore, we can think of Barfield's "lexical meaning" as the essence of dyadic meaning: The word-definition template stands as the very model of the signifier-signified dyad. It is opened up creatively as the interpreter "interprets." And we might for these purposes call the interpretant "the reader." “In neither process is creative freedom absolute. The poet can effectively exercise his creativity .... only if a reader accepts his metaphor as sufficiently true to entertain it at least provisionally. Although in the first instance that "reader" may be the poet (acting as reader), in order for words to come to "mean more than they say" a bunch of readers must agree to this acceptance, by, for instance, deeming a nascent metaphor to be true. It's not so different in science: The "more meaning" Einstein proposes to invest in "gravity" will bear fruit only if other folks are convinced it be true. “To think more on this, go to "Whitehead" in the index Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge. In one of those cites you will find a footnote where Whitehead says something like: “There is no statement that perfectly expresses its meaning (not even one plus one is two).” In a way, this looks at "Words mean more than they say" pessimistically: Since words cannot perfectly state their meaning, we [as readers] have to make up the difference. I think Polanyi (and Whitehead) are stating the optimistic side of this: Because words cannot perfectly state their meaning, we are free to invest them with the creative energies of our personal knowledge. Once again, this is not an assertion of absolute freedom; but perhaps our freedom is sufficient, if we would but use it. (Leonard Cohen sums it up this way: There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.) “Hasta, Ken “PS:
B) Certain Human Groups Have Their Own Specialized Language Terms, That Often Use Techniques of Poetry, Such As => Illusions, Metaphor, Phrasing, And Rhyme, & Other!!
… What About Special Group Languages, Or Special Insider Speech Of A Particular Group.? ...
For Example: Trucker’s Citizens Band Radio Discussions, Are Most Certainly Mental Arrivals, BUT What About => ?Are These Essentially Slang Expressions, Poetry”? Here are examples of truckers slang, called Tang!!
Keep on truck’in (i.e. Things are A-OK. You are doing fine. Stay on the job.)
Put the Hammer Down. (i.e. Jam the accelerator pedal to the Floorboards.)
Keep the Pedal to the Metal. (i.e.: press it to the metal of the truck cab frame!)
In the above 4 lines, we see much that Purposely Humorous. But we ALSO see Illusions, Metaphor, Phrasing, And Rhyme, And Other Techniques of Poetry!! CONCLUSION: These Terms Are Most Certainly Mental Arrivals, AND ALSO They ARE Poetry?
END APPENDIX V HSG’s Listed Mental Arrivals, and Relation To Lines of Poetry => Owen Barfield says =>, “Words mean more than they say.”
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APPENDIX VI MORE MENTAL ARRIVALS, AS SEEN IN THE ANCIENT SYSTEM OF PARTICIPATION:=> For The Ancient Greeks & Romans, Their So Called ‘Gods’ & ‘Goddess’, Were , For Then, Experienced as Real, Living Persons: Lived Realities!! Living Beings as Spirit Creatures: Analogous To What We Would Call: Friends & Neighbors: Actors & Agents, Egos & Figurations; Forces, & Actions. . … We In 21st Century, Should Understand That => In The World of Ancient Humans, These, What We Now Call ‘Gods’ & ‘Goddess, Were Seen By The Ancients, As Mental Arrivals. And, Although These Apparitions of “Spirits Persons”, Were Mere Creations Of Their Own Human Minds, This Is No Reason To Call That “System” => Mere Delusions, Useless Figments Of a Primitive Person’s NonExistant Creation of Their Own Imagination!!
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