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December 03, 2007

Illuminations with forks

It's amazing how multiple situations, properties, and property's of a fork can be generated. Here are a few things our group came up with:

Situations a fork is found in:
1. In a cupboard
2. In your mouth
3. In a piece of food
4. In a dishwasher
5. On a kitchen floor
6. In a box of tools
(metaphors): A bird's foot, a rake, a tree with roots, peace sign, and as suggested by two poems we've read: a lightning bolt, fork in the road

Properties of a fork:
1. Transparent
2. Plastic
3. Breakable, accessible, convenient
4. Flexible
5. Scratched
6. Straight yet arched
7. Patterned

Property of forks (what they own):
1. Soft foods because plastic
2. Saliva, germs
3. Lipstick
4. the dye from food
5. fingerprints
6. soap, water
7. If it is a rake: leaves, grass, weeds, nutrients from soil
8. If it is a fork in the road: car tracks
9. Itself: a fork can be the owner of itself

Posted by pbali at December 3, 2007 12:22 AM

Comments

It is indeed amazing, and these situations, properties and property's impose limiting factors (just as limiting factors have helped shape these situations, properties, & property's) that operate within a continuously configured/ reconfigured system of enclosure, system of knowing, system of understanding such that deviation from established (or "trusted") systems of enclosure may require effort.

To become aware of the multiplicity of situation, etc. builds/configures patterns of existence, archetypal patterns that repeat across scale, and can assist humanity in developing innovations --to find something whose behavior has something in common with something else can be initial steps in discovering fresh methodologies, tweaked application of procedures in place for a different purpose, and so forth.

To become aware of the functioning of subsystems can help with the understanding of the more complex systems in which the subsystems are a part. What is important to have is a method of inquiry, a context in which in which to conduct a receptive investigation so as to have a place to begin formation of the meanings, the consequences, the implications of what is found, a formation that is reconfigurable as more information is acquired.

In this way, a poem (subsystem of poam) offers, through an understanding of contribution of parts toward some goal (as defined by the investigator based on perceptions of the parts, of the residents of the community of the poem or of any allness (each subsystem) of the poem) can offer, via connections, insights into any system/subsystem of existence. The poem offers a view of, an insight into, a revealing of, a possibility of, a warning of, an illumination of, and so forth.

It is so stunning that the mind (a bifurcating system of enclosure) is able to find (construct) patterns, is able to make multiple links/connections on multiple scales simultaneously.

When information enters the mind, sure that idea is "broken" into components and linked in multiple ways to multiple locations, but not for the purpose of fractures, but for the ability to draw these links together into systems of gears, into extraordinary packages (gifts) that can blossom --the origami of neural networks --the belonging to structures that can form and reform, that are able to accommodate whatever can connect. We may override the possible connection, keeping active various systems of enclosure that filter out what we don't want connected, but even that negative inclusion is a parallel or mirror connection by which the excluded is negatively included.

Great lists.

Posted by: thyliasm at December 10, 2007 02:56 PM

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