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the exact structure of this information had ‘emerged during the process of drawing’; written diagrams like this one facilitated complex, abstract thinking. These new abstract thoughts could surprise the thinker, who accommodates them wherever possible by sketching the diagram. Even-Ezra suggests that the horizontal-tree format made concepts ‘easier to manipulate’
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these horizontal trees written by medieval scribes did not simply record information – they recorded pathways for thinking that were enabled by the branching form of the tree itself. Branching diagrams reveal the medieval extended mind at work in its interactions with pen, ink and the blank space of the page.
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In navigating this problem, the intellectual historian Ayelet Even-Ezra pursues one route toward an answer in Lines of Thought(2021). For her, ‘lines of thought’ are the lines of connection structuring the many branching diagrams that fill the pages of medieval manuscripts We’ve always been distracted, or at least
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In 1998, the philosophers Andy Clark and David J Chalmers called this interactive system, composed of the inner mind cooperating with the outer world of objects, ‘the extended mind’. Our ability to think, they claimed, could be altered and extended through technologies like writing. This modern idea expresses a much
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A new study of botanical materials found on the wreck of the Gribshunden, the 15th century Danish royal warship, has found it was laden with exotic spices, including the first archaeological evidence of saffron, ginger, cloves is medieval Scandinavia, previously only known from scant written sources. It is also the
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My eyes were starting to learn slime mold. My ways of seeing were altering, thanks to my new friends who were showing me what to look for. What was once invisible was quickly becoming apparent. It challenged my sense of perception. How little and how limited was my vision! How
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Margaret Price’s poem “Slime Molds Have Eleven Sexes” was published in The Gay & Lesbian Review in 2003. “Beyond the binary, not hung up,” it goes; “and probably wearing tiny berets.” Which some of the Physarumabsolutely do. That we now believe, only twenty years later, that slime molds actually
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“People are only just realizing the importance of fungi with this wood-wide web, and the time for slime molds has come,” she said. “People are going to realize just how important they are in the scheme of things.” Creatures That Don’t Conform – Lucy Jones
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One of his most fascinating notes deals with his pencil sketching. Drawing freely and “scratchily” (シャカシャカ), he treats each line as part of the final piece. There’s no eraser involved — and, understandably, no eraser included in the kit. How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki - Animation Obsessive
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“The higher the opinion a person has of himself, the more unstable is his position; the lower he moves in his selfesteem, the firmer he stands.” Excerpt From: Tolstoy, Leo. “A Calendar of Wisdom.” Scribner, 2010-05-11. Apple Books.
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"Sand and pokeys go together like blood and honey" "Blood and honey go together?" "I mean, I assume" Overheard while some sort of Super Mario game was being co-opted on the couch
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“I often describe it as being like: Imagine if you lived in a time before there was music, and then during the course of your life, somebody discovered music. And the first people were singing songs and forming bands. Imagine how amazing that would have felt! That’s how it