what means what now?

ACTION- (in my words, is a happening) three are both human and non-human actions

HAPPENING- (in my idea, something brought into existence- EX: Blinking, Walking, Sunrise, Me,...)
these can be both human and non-human

BEING- (something that "is") there are both human and non-human beings
walking is a human action. sunrise is a non-human beings

?- is a sunrise a being?- A sunrise is, but the sun rising isn't
?- Am I a being?- Yes, i was created and i "Am", but i'm also an "Is"

(consider the grammatical usage)

Action= happening, happening= being, being= be, so...

Action=happening=being=be=is=am

+tick, tock STAYS The clock.

Why cant time stay the same, and the events inside time do the changing?

+ Noon will be there again same "time" tomorrow, assuming the world is still there around that time the next day, but it's what happens between noon today and noon tomorrow that changes.

new blog- maybe funny

http://pokedintheeye.blogspot.com/

+my outlet for all the ridiculousness i encounter

Where have i been?

+ Alright, I’ve found my way back here after almost a month of no posts._through actions of my own I’ve been out and about and I admit, I could have made time to post my thoughts, but on another side, I’ve been too tired and stressed, but its no matter now I guess, I'm here and thats that.__

+ We have been talking about Buddhism and patterns of the like. and I have to say, i've been fighting with the idea of some of the ideas presented to me. a lot of I found to be "non-sense", it was either too connected to self or too detached, making the self almost worthless or insignificant. I’m an open Atheist, and I enjoy hearing and understanding other points of view. but sometimes I wonder...__

"why do I bother trying to understand everything that may not ever have anything to do with me?"__+Im feeling off my game right now due to the stresses of living as an adult, my bills have pilled up, my services are being cut off, and I'm in a good bit of debt to my bank, and I don't see it clearing up. so I may have taken on a sour outlook on today's portion of thinking about the relationship of things...though I have ALOT to be on top of the world about, I'm just hunting my demons one at a time...on that note, I've taken to this band by the name Demon hunter, fantastic heavy metal!

+ but ok. that’s fine, debt? sure, no heat? cool <-(haha) stress? I'm down with that. but what of P, C, S, & A?

+Philosophy seems to be the parent of all of them. like a family each member has it's on personality, but holds a fabric to each other. Art is the more expressive child that says what it wants and cant take it back after said, because its out in the "outside world". Craft is the modest child who lets its function out-shine its process or its physical body. and Science is the child who has to re-invent it's self constantly because it has a problem with turning into its sibling Craft. The best part is, ALL of these members have personality disorders, and they let you know it’s the same body, but they all have endless altar egos running at the same time. Almost like a sci-fi movie, minus the spaceships and phaser guns.

MAGIC: the production of specific emotional states, or psychological

+I wish magic were real. like the stereotypical magic- where things can shoot from our hands and spells can be cast.. that would be amazing. I almost want it to be that way so bad that I play this game called "oblivion" for hours if left alone with the time to do so. I've put 40 some hours into the game over the weeks and I feel better while I'm playing. it helps me get out of my head and be some great adventurer who has really cool armor and a plethora of crazy swords to fight off goblins and bandits. though as I type this I feel "dorky" but who the hell cares? The game and the wonder are fantastic and it’s a nice retreat from my real life haha.

202s clock is crooked.

Right side= left hand/ Left side= right hand
*what does that say for a right handed artist? i.e.-Me
*does this mean that what im creating isnt art because the wrong hand is the one drawing it? if thats true then im doing a good job of fooling everyone.

CRAFT
*Stipulative definition- skill or technique in handling the physical world
*Tending to be PRACTICAL
*Craft is a kind of knowledge- it is "body knowledge"

MANIPULATION
*Mani-pul-ation (to work with the hand)
*Manus = a hand

/\Philosophy (increasing "mentality") MENTAL-MIND
|
\/Craft (increasing physicality) PHYSICAL-BODY

*art (arse) latin- craft old english- techne (technical) greek
*artistic=crafty=technical

PHILOSOPHY (det. truth)
*mental
*interior
*conscious
*theoritical

SCIENCE (det. fact) INVESTIGATION:testing
*mental
*physical

ART
(not the thing, but the expression) INSPIRATION:expression

CRAFT (produce something physcial) DOING:production
*physical
*exterior
*unconsious
*practical

Foxes are seen as "crafty" swift.. successful wild animals. there is an accisociation with craft to animals not so much philosophical

**back to philosophy being interior
*philosophy is the most human of P,S,C,A
*becasue im listening to him talk, then im being affected and therfore its not fully passive. i have to be consious i have to be alert

**back to craft as exterior
*the body making somthing else
*"the Craftyness of animals is not so much the thinking through the problem but in manifesting some action that confers an advantage to the animal"

P (poses questions)->S (which lead to expierements)->C (tech. are created)->A

Jump the Gun, or stay under it

PHILOSOPHY
*Phislosohy is MENTAL
*Philosophy is the love or pursuit of wisdom, and is therefore fundamentally ETHICAL
-philosophy conserns itself with knowledge, process of knowlege, and the principals or rules which govern thoughts.

LEXICAL DEFINITION
*one found in a LEXICON (a "word-book",a dictionary-usually a "technical dictionary")
*based upon ACTUAL USE of terms defined.
*Lexical definitions, becasue they detail actual use, have often the vagueness and ambiguity characteristic of everyday speech.

VAGUENESS
*"looseness" of the boundaries of a meaning of a term

AMBIGUITY
*Use of a term in several different senses (which is meant, being unclear).

STIPULATIVE DEFINITION
*A proposal of a narrowing of an existing lexical definition to remove ambiguity or vagueness of both.

HYPOTHETICAL/THEORITICAL DEFINITION
*Defintions created for a sepecific pouropse, having some sort of usefulness in a process of examination.
*not taken to be absolute or trivial, these definitions exist to be TESTED.

(these following thoughts are hypotetical, not to be taken as absolute)

WISDOM
*The knowledge of what to do and when
*(the right thing/what is right to do/what is morally correct?)

COSMOLOGY
*the study of order in the universe
*(the impact of life/actions/events on the universe)

GEORGE ORWELL (writing is a political act, it altars the world reguardless of if anyone sees it or not) <--kinda like my idea.

the 1-X Robot

PHILOSOPHY::

LOGIC- the study of arguements to determine their validity or invalidty and the study of conditions of truth and falsity

AXIOLOGY- the study of vlues
A:AESTHETICS- the study of beauty and and sensation
B:ETHICS-the statement of morality or moraltiics (morality = a system of ideas and approved behavior relating to right and wrong conduct)

EPISTEMOLOGY- the study of knowlege

METAPHYSICS- study of ULTIMATE reality

"philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing; only when everything is in place does the door open." - wittgenstein

(rethink your chart on relations)

Black No.1

Today is about the same. still hard to manage

the Deepest Grey

12:37 pm, today is becoming more & more unstable


5:17 pm, Do i believe that all human activity can be fully described & understood through some combination of P, C, S, & A?
if yes to 1. but no to 2.- explain why i dissagree, be specific.
if yes to 1. and yes to 2. the demonstate through 3-5 examples.
if no to 1.- why dont i understand, explain.

*Oct. 11th- quiz on definitions

In answer to the question asked above, I feel I do understand the four definitions of P, C, S, & A. I would have to disagree that ALL human activity can be explained through one, or a combination of, the four categories. I feel that though every action I have analyzed so far may be explained in this manner, ALL of human activity is a very large concept. I’m not saying it isn’t possible, but philosophically speaking, ill only be able to say “maybe” because I may never know ALL of human activity.

Though to contradict myself, one can argue that all human activity can be classified as science upon the first time performing that act. As it’s a step outside behavior and could be called experimentation or exploration, then after the first time performing the act, every time after may be considered craft. As it’s repeating the steps learned to achieve the same outcome. So in a sense, ALL human activity can be explained with at least two of the four.

*Some interesting points made today
// *To paint a house, then to "paint" a house, we go from craft to art because we paint the physicality of a house.
If we don’t have standard symbols we cant communicate with other people. *Visual is better for specifics, but verbal is better for general.

*We have two kinds of experience. 1. "Conventional", agreed upon, an ordinary understanding EX: bagels are with the bread, but I don’t think to ask why. / Lexical definition

*Science- examination of physical world, intellectual/ disciplined mental activity *Practical/ practice doing things
EX. Making the first bulb is science, making the same bulb over for a use is craft
*Science is not the bulb; science is the act of making the bulb, a process of examination

*Phil.- the examination of self-exploration
EX. I can understand "light" with phil.(imagination), but not science, yet.

*P-A *A-S *C-S
*P-C *A-C

*the practical use of science is basically craft

The act I have decided to explore today is Cleaning. Cleaning is Mostly craft, I say this because you know what tools to use to get the object or room clean and you know what pattern of steps it takes to get it to that level. Cleaning can also be art in the sense that a clean living space or work area is an expression of self-organization, or an expression of self-conduction. Science can be employed a number of ways, through the chemicals used to clean the area, or on a more heightened level, the first time you use a new tool or you try a new pattern of cleaning you are exploring and using science. The only category that falls short here is philosophy, it has its presence, but in a more subtle sense. The thought or idea to have a clean environment can lead to a better frame of mind, as where a dirty area can induce a poor feeling.

-MAC

Have to be First..

Yesterday in class I had the feeling of revelation. This post is more or less a broken string of those revelations, along with a new-charted act.

It was mentioned that it might be possible for a thought- once thought- becomes available for anyone in the world to pick out of the abstract and conceive as his or her own. This really interested me, if say a thousand people are having the same idea at the same exact time, then that makes it impossible to be truly original. The only way I can see pulling it off would be to be the first one to take your idea public, to enough people who actually listen, and even then you can break it down even further into if you’re the lucky one to be in the right time-zone. Just a thought that i've been kicking around.

Another idea is the ideas that once you speak, write, paint, or express your idea publicly it is no longer your idea, but now belongs to the “outside world”. The only way to have an idea to yourself is to never express it in anyway; even a journal belongs to the outside world- and therefore, takes your idea as its own. Mr. Achtermann said that was a close idea to that of Tolkien, ill have to look into that further- this whole idea expresses my first theory on original thought, I thought I was onto something, but it seems that Tolkien beat me to it. He was first. Another example being that I was talking with a friend of mine tonight and she mentioned building a tent in my backyard and camping out. Shortly after, my neighbor came outside and pitched a tent. My mind was blown and I could only laugh to myself.

Last idea before my chart, Mr., Achtermann also posed the idea that when interacting with another person, how do you know you are getting reality? I took it a closer step down and replaced reality with the word “truth”. How do you know if what you are hearing is really the truth? In my mind, you don’t. You have to trust that what you are hearing is the truth and accept it as such and act based off of that assumption. So on a larger scale, my whole life is a series of assumptions and ill never be sure of anything 100%. One thousand people just had that idea. Only now I have to tag the word “maybe” onto the end of it, because am I sure they did? No, but its my assumption.

Now, as for my chart of the day. Lets look at Decorating. Humans aside from a few species of crustaceans, birds, and mammals decorate their surroundings.

The philosophy of Decorating may be that we decorate to make ourselves feel refreshed in a normally dull atmosphere, to individualize ones-self from the rest of the world by personalizing your room, car, notebook, anything. Feeling separate, to an extent, is a very liberating feeling and it may be true that humans do such to feel that sense of originality.
The animals mentioned above that decorate do it for mating purposes, as far as we can tell today, not for any other reason, and yet, we decorate for many other reasons.

The art of decorating can be explained in the act that we decorate and arrange our surroundings to express who we are as individuals, and as we defined it to be, art is SELF-expression. Craft has a hand quite literally in decorating; we have the skills to decide what looks good where and why it looks that way. Science, again, not too apparent in the act of decorating.
My apologies for the short run down, but I’m tired, and this is running long.

Goodnight- MAC

Fleshed out.

*some notes from today that i found interesting...

Knowledge (P,C,A,...S)
Imagination (mostly philos.)
Intention
Production (doing)
Memory
Exploration (in a process. in any project there is a rxploration)
Judgement (
Reflection

(alot of what art is, is repeating craft.)
*its hard to get them all in one category. with out making a team up
*3rd oct. exam on definitions...may be moved to the 10th

Today a pretty interesting thought was posed. If art is self-expression then how is it possible for a collaboration to take place? Or rather, can artist collaborate on a piece of
art?

I say yes, though art is self-expression, its not JUST self-expression, it can be an expression of a group who have the same vision or message. Or even just an expression of two views on the same subject, taken in different directions on the same piece. Nowhere does it say art is limited to the self and the self only.

So in following with my chart on eating, this time I’ve decided to explore the P, C, S, &A of dressing ones self.

The Philosophy behind what we decide on wearing that day is really interesting. What color, matches what and what is considered to be in style. Or you can throw what’s “cool” to the masses out the window and wear what you think is interesting and looks good. Often my mood has an effect on what I wear that day, I may wake up and want to be dressy, or more heavy metal. Or just wear a paint-splattered pair of jeans and say its ok because I got to art school. Either way, Philosophy has a major role in the act of getting dressed. Unless you have to wear a uniform. Even then I think people find ways to make it their own, through accessories or something of the like.

Is there art in dress? Yes, I believe so. If I’m to believe art is self-expression then wearing something because you like it is an act of self-expression. And on a more professional level, clothing designers see fabric and the form it takes on the body to be a different medium not too far away from paint. It’s just the application and the dimension in which the designer works that sets it aside.

The Craft in dressing (not to be confused with KRAFT dressing) is simply that one leg goes through the right pant leg and the other through the left, and the same procedure for the shirt. Shoes are tied a number of ways but still tied for the purpose of protecting the feet, and keeping the shoe secured to the foot.

As for Science, I can’t find a very big presence, unless you were experimenting with wearing cloths, or how their colors affect others around you. Otherwise science seems to take a backseat on this act.

-MAC

Breaking Through

Today. Was a good day! i had a pretty significant break through with my chart that i drew a week or two ago. i didnt think it to be much but i guess it was. I often think about things of this nature so i enjoy the class. I have plans on getting it all down on paper rather than a strange drawing that only makes sence to me.
...more on this post after my obsessive marathon of "the office" season three...

Now that I’ve returned and have a silent time to work, I was thinking about how P, C, S, or A could be applied to the act of eating. I’ve come to this conclusion.

Philosophy has a great role in eating, because not only do we consider if we are hungry or not, but we have ideas on what we want to eat and what we don’t. Most of these ideas stemmed from pleasant or unpleasant experiences with the item we consider eating. Foods can make our mood change, feel more energized, or even put us to sleep. We base our choice for our meal on those factors. Also the time of day, place, or people who may be eating with us. All of these factors determine our final order.

Craft also has a pretty decent sized place in this act. How we eat is a skill taught to us by our elders as we grow into adulthood, and the style in which you eat reflects your own person. In a sense philosophy and craft team up on the act of eating. The way you hold your fork and knife, and which hand is used for what, where your napkin is placed and how well you control the food on your plate. This is all a matter of skill. Anyone can hold these items and get the food into their mouth, but it takes refining and a good deal of now intuitive control, but at one time those inset abilities had to be taught to us.

Science plays the largest part in eating. The food we ingest has cretin affects on the body, good, bad, or indifferent, but an effect either way. The way food tastes is all a reaction of the food interacting with the nerves in the mouth and can basically be traced to electrical impulses sent to the brain. Which make us salivate, reject or consume, and break down the food.

Art, has a very little role in this act, the only way I can validate art in the act of eating is the presentation of the meal. The way food is presented can be considered an art form; in fact, every category can be applied to the presentation and preparation of food. However when dealing with the consumption. Art has no ground in which to stand.

Put this in one of the four...

Class today, quite an interesting time, not as long as i would have liked it to be, but that's alright. It was really interesting to see that this girl who has said no more than four words the whole time had a really interesting graphic representation of the four classes. i thought mine was interesting, but it wasnt much like that.
The class before this one though was really interesting, i felt like it was he and i going back and fourth the whole time, but i really liked it. I think about all of these topics anyway so its nice to have a class where i can talk about with someone who knows all about. Though i dont believe that everything can be laid into a combo of S, A, P, or C. but its a good time trying. Id like to think that human activity can have something that cant really be a mix of philosophy, art, craft, or science. Although on a contradictory level, i like breaking everything down into a simple black and white form. I cant relly think straight right now. UFC is on and its 1 am. ill come back to this once i can think.

-MAC