tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post3701473786739764438..comments2024-01-08T00:08:53.008+00:00Comments on ombhurbhuva: Sex and the Single Chick,Brain Voodoo, Rhetoric, ombhurbhuvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-35517932469450295672013-04-07T20:36:22.794+01:002013-04-07T20:36:22.794+01:00This is getting close to the idea of the Tao but ...This is getting close to the idea of the Tao but it is within the bounds of what is teachable, just. The chicken sexers have visual cues to go on but they are very slight and at the speed required ‘Butterfly you must think with chicken mind’. I am aware that Gladwell has written about rapid cognition:<br />http://www.gladwell.com/blink/<br /> <br /><br />Tradition is important in the cultivation of a sense of Quality. You must surround yourself with good examples. In writing for instance I believe it is no harm to look closely at the diction of the masters and discover their characteristic effects and how they are achieved. In furniture making which I dabble in I like to make exact copies of Shaker pieces to get a feel of tactile and visual weight and negative space.<br /><br />“I think that when this concept of peace of mind is introduced and made central to the act of technical work, a fusion of classic and romantic quality can take place at a basic level within a practical working context. I've said you can actually see this fusion in skilled mechanics and machinists of a certain sort, and you can see it in the work they do. To say they are not artists is to misunderstand the nature of art. They have patience, care and attentiveness to what they're doing, but more than this - there's a kind of inner peace of mind that isn't contrived but results from a kind of harmony with the work in which there's no leader and no follower. The material and the craftsman's thoughts change together in a progression of smooth, even changes until his mind is at rest at the exact instant the material is right. “<br />(From ZAAM)<br /><br />The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao<br />The name that can be named is not the eternal name<br />The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth<br />The named is the mother of myriad things<br />Thus, constantly without desire, one observes its essence<br />Constantly with desire, one observes its manifestations<br />These two emerge together but differ in name<br />(Derek Lin trans.)<br /> <br />ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-83669898768097585792013-04-07T16:27:57.469+01:002013-04-07T16:27:57.469+01:00Michael Polanyi tells an anecdote to the same effe...Michael Polanyi tells an anecdote to the same effect at the beginning of the title essay in <i>Knowing & Being</i>: <br /><br /><i>A distinguished psychiatrist demonstrated to his students a patient who was having a mild fit of some kind. Later the class discussed the question whether this had been an epileptic or a hystero-epileptic seizure. The matter was finally decided by the psychiatrist: "Gentlemen," he said, "you have seen a true epileptic seizure. I cannot tell you how to recognize it; you will learn this by more extensive experience."</i> <br /><br />This sort of thing becomes the choice of exhibit for Polanyi's philosophy of Tacit Knowing.<br /><br />Not too far from Pirsig on rhetoric in <i>Zen</i>: though quality is undefinable, you know what it is. I haven't tracked it down, but I understand a while ago someone did a close read of Strunk and White in <i>The Elements of Style</i> and discerned that they broke most of their own rules. (A quick wiki-idiot check confirms mention of this.) The efforts to define this sort of thing eventually die the death of a thousand sassy says-whos, but by then the good ones have accomplished the work they came to do. skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-67663221006695885492013-04-05T19:18:11.635+01:002013-04-05T19:18:11.635+01:00At about 4 to 6 weeks sex characteristics appear w...At about 4 to 6 weeks sex characteristics appear which is when those low volume farms begin their cull. Would this be the time when interest in doing the funky chicken starts? <br /><br />This is of interest to epistemology also. I have come to learn, probably along the lines of a blindsight paradox. How do you know when you can’t know sort of thing. My intuition is that this is based on a false picture. There are cues but they are very slight and much practice is needed to spot them at high speed.ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-29231745639090717192013-04-05T17:18:27.071+01:002013-04-05T17:18:27.071+01:00I'm guessing that chickens are even better tha...I'm guessing that chickens are even better than humans at chicken sexing while requiring fewer trials to achieve mastery, but that they're no better at explaining their intuitive, unconscious expertise.ktismaticshttp://ktismatics.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com