Posts tagged individuality.

When a planet absorbs a meteorite or a cat breathes, the identity of the planet or the cat is not altered.

on Individual Objects
Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar, 160

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From our point of view, at least. Over time, a planet and a cat who have interacted with their environment are indeed changed into something else, or cease to be “cat” & “planet” and their particles are recycled into other “things”.

#science  #notes  #physics  #interaction  #cat  #planet  #things  #thing  #individuality  #object  #being  #thingness  #measure  
1 year ago on June 14, 2012 via olena
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Attention blindness is the fundamental structuring principle of the brain, and I believe that it presents us with a tremendous opportunity. My take is different from that of many neuroscientists: Where they perceive the shortcomings of the individual, I sense an opportunity for collaboration. Fortunately, given the interactive nature of most of our lives in the digital age, we have the tools to harness our different forms of attention and take advantage of them. It’s not easy to acknowledge that everything we’ve learned about how to pay attention means that we’ve been missing everything else. It’s not easy for us rational, competent, confident types to admit that the very key to our success—our ability to pinpoint a problem and solve it, an achievement honed in all those years in school and beyond—may be exactly what limits us. For more than a hundred years, we’ve been training people to see in a particularly individual, deliberative way. No one ever told us that our way of seeing excluded everything else.

Collaborative Learning for the Digital Age - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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#attention  #neuroscience  #collaboration  #interactive  #interactivity  #network  #Systems  #Operating System  #nodes  #individual  #individuality  #education  
1 year ago on August 30, 2011 via chronicle.com
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