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Pulse
I seek the form
of
the modern
Mind
I want to know
the
flow
As input
into
output
For writer
&
for reader
Condense
the
impetus
&
Algorithmic
Projection
of the
Connection
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(I was thinking about what might truly be a form of the modern age, which would be best to reach the modern mind. I wondered if a chosen, poetic form is of any consequence. Does the network construct make any difference to the electricity, that is channeled by the Poet/ess?
If there is no difference, then any network design will suffice. And if any design will suffice, then the above mentioned, modern form, if such a thing exists, might be of interest?
I though of how we are technological based. I thought of how technology is computer chip based. I thought about how the message is the medium. I thought about how the medium is technology.
I thought of how the minds of the many are shaped by technology/computer chip. (Perhaps unconsciously.)
… And in this way, a “computer chip form” might be most effective?
I think that the computer chip has as much a background presence as 1’s & 0’s.
So much so, that it shapes the mind into the nature of a computer chip, or… Perhaps awakens a structure that was already there, always.
This idea strikes me like a very bright light.
… I was also thinking of an exchange I had with LDF, pertaining to the diminishing readers of poetry.
I believe that, similar to the idea of an inherent presence of a computer chip structure, there is an inherent presence of a deep love of poetry, within every human mind.
(Which in most cases, perhaps, needs to be awakened?)
Maybe this is crazy as hell?..
but I saw a guy who had just started writing who posted short snippets of poetry on IG and developed a large following, who considered such a medium as a “gateway drug” to poetry, being of a similar mind, believing that the love of poetry is inherent.
It is more than a love of poetry… It is a love of magic.
Think of a funeral. The priest reads from the Psalms of Solomon, and there are people present who have never heard such a thing, and it sweeps across their souls, like wings over the surface of waters.
… Or a lover who receives and reads the first poem they have ever read or received… The response.
I know I am not the first to aggrandize poetry in such a way.
(and it ended in tears, as so many things do.)
… When I was in prison I did this thing, where a group of students from the University of Michigan came to the prison for a 400 level Sociology/Psychology class.
They were a wonderful group of people, and a close bond was formed between them and us.
At the end each person wrote a letter to someone else in the class, based on a drawing that we did.
… The person who wrote a letter to me, who I was great friends with, included this quote:
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.” - Daniel Burnham
(I think that the best form is that which most enhances the function of the idea.)
Published 6th Sep 2021
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7th Sep 2021 00:05am
Dear CO,
I find my thinking is heightened a million fold after reading your work and when you include notes or additional thoughts. I can’t decide if it’s because I’ve never encouraged myself to delve into critical thinking higher than a fifth grader or if I’m just an imbecile?
I suppose I’ve always considered the human mind the same since the beginning. By this I’m suggesting we are open to learning and higher education through discussion and sharing or we choose to be ignorant through fear and insecurity. I’m sure there is a billion shades of grey matter in there also. I am intrigued by your thought process in this poem and now I wonder what the future holds for the tech generation? Marvelous write. H🌷
I find my thinking is heightened a million fold after reading your work and when you include notes or additional thoughts. I can’t decide if it’s because I’ve never encouraged myself to delve into critical thinking higher than a fifth grader or if I’m just an imbecile?
I suppose I’ve always considered the human mind the same since the beginning. By this I’m suggesting we are open to learning and higher education through discussion and sharing or we choose to be ignorant through fear and insecurity. I’m sure there is a billion shades of grey matter in there also. I am intrigued by your thought process in this poem and now I wonder what the future holds for the tech generation? Marvelous write. H🌷
7th Sep 2021 2:43pm
... I completely agree with you H, pertaining to the similitude of the human mind. For example, when we wonder how our ancestors did something that baffles the modern mind, we often do not take into account the idea that they had the same minds that we have today.
... I also agree that we are open to learning and higher education and intellectual response to the stimulation of our interactions with the things around us.
... I think I was thinking about "the wiring of the brain, itself". Like how they say you can be wired for fear, based upon something that occurs in early childhood, or, perhaps at any time in your life.
Another example would be the brain that is wired for addiction.
... I think what I was thinking was the idea of the brain being wired for technology, which seems like a very real possibility.
I think that that would be a very unique form of wiring, as it is based off of an artificial creation.
And would differ from fear, which is an emotion, and drugs, which are molecules, perhaps in the structural complexity, although that may be entirely true.
I think of like say... A Ted Talk, how they limit such a thing to a 15 minute window, based upon the diminishing returns of attention span, which is influenced by technology. Or even design based upon eye acuity, or emotional responses to a variety of stimulus.
... I think there has been cognitive changes in the human race, based on our tech driven society. Are they temporary. Did they rewire brains? Possibly.
If so, is there a form of art, based on these changes, that is most conducive to providing a clear conduit to the senses?
... And then there is the idea that there is nothing new under the sun. or that Old World forms of art are out the "windows OS".
These thoughts are wild I know.
... Thank you so much for reading and engaging me.
You are so wise and wonderful.
... I also agree that we are open to learning and higher education and intellectual response to the stimulation of our interactions with the things around us.
... I think I was thinking about "the wiring of the brain, itself". Like how they say you can be wired for fear, based upon something that occurs in early childhood, or, perhaps at any time in your life.
Another example would be the brain that is wired for addiction.
... I think what I was thinking was the idea of the brain being wired for technology, which seems like a very real possibility.
I think that that would be a very unique form of wiring, as it is based off of an artificial creation.
And would differ from fear, which is an emotion, and drugs, which are molecules, perhaps in the structural complexity, although that may be entirely true.
I think of like say... A Ted Talk, how they limit such a thing to a 15 minute window, based upon the diminishing returns of attention span, which is influenced by technology. Or even design based upon eye acuity, or emotional responses to a variety of stimulus.
... I think there has been cognitive changes in the human race, based on our tech driven society. Are they temporary. Did they rewire brains? Possibly.
If so, is there a form of art, based on these changes, that is most conducive to providing a clear conduit to the senses?
... And then there is the idea that there is nothing new under the sun. or that Old World forms of art are out the "windows OS".
These thoughts are wild I know.
... Thank you so much for reading and engaging me.
You are so wise and wonderful.
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7th Sep 2021 2:50pm
... This makes me wonder if the pulse of which you speak, which is a device of various systems, might be used to locate the pulse of any other thing?
I think the answer is yes.
... Absolutely. Resonant frequencies are interconnected. I was just saying how there is mathematics in everything, nothing new of course, however, a resonant frequency is based in mathematics.
... Now my question would be, is it possible to render the intrinsic intonation/magma of the intent into structures of art?
The connotations of the cross over.
Perhaps this is the basis for all art, but on an individual level, as an individual representation.
What I wonder about is something that is... Universal.
Or at least universal for a given zeitgeist.
Thank you again R.
(I have notes based upon things that you have communicated.)
I think the answer is yes.
... Absolutely. Resonant frequencies are interconnected. I was just saying how there is mathematics in everything, nothing new of course, however, a resonant frequency is based in mathematics.
... Now my question would be, is it possible to render the intrinsic intonation/magma of the intent into structures of art?
The connotations of the cross over.
Perhaps this is the basis for all art, but on an individual level, as an individual representation.
What I wonder about is something that is... Universal.
Or at least universal for a given zeitgeist.
Thank you again R.
(I have notes based upon things that you have communicated.)
7th Sep 2021 3:00pm
Another poetaintelligensian write ... love it ... just the right sprinkling of rhyme ...
7th Sep 2021 3:22pm
