Palinurus said:
Another proof for the saying that a (moving) picture can outdo a thousand or so words...
Absolutely! It's like objective art, perhaps without the emotional component, though it does give a super nice feeling to see a dim concept lit and summed up so concisely and simple.
Scottie said:
Why do we have to suffer through year after year after year of totally complicated and borderline nonsensical explanations when a simple picture can convey the meaning to darn near anybody?
My answer would be compartmentalization with intent, on behalf of the planners of todays idiocracy. 4D 'of course', through, as for example John Taylor Gatto shows, mad human planners of the prussian schools, designing the removal of imagination from the pupil to become a pawn of state. Which in turn got the attention of American social architects who imported and improved these brainwashing ideas and it morphed into the modern day school system with its separated classrooms and disciplines, pavlovian bell ringing, and authority making you emotionally and intellectually dependent on a curriculum making little connected sense, connections which are absolutely vital for deeper learning.
Just as Gardner (Multiple intelligences) and Mithen (Prehistory of mind - Mind as a cathedral) shows; we are dependent on the connection of our specialized intelligence modules to communicate with our general intelligence if we are to deepen learning, navigate better, be wiser, etc. This cross intelligence communication has been trained out of us, sealing compartments of mind.
Seaniebawn said:
Has any read A Little Book of Coincidence
When dusting off my math and physics a few years ago, I was looking for visual material which could support the dry and less than wondrous school books provided for the course, with the connections I knew must lie between the now secluded scientific branches and I found some of the other 'wooden books'; "The golden section", "Sciencia" & "Quadrivium". The latter is supposedly a Pyhtagorean (and platonic adapted) teaching system which, when you had graduated as a student of 'the Trivium' (learning how to learn, research and convey), could move on to studying the Quadrivium (4) consisting of; 1. Arithmetic (Number) - 2. Geometry (Number in space) - 3. Harmony/ Music (Number in time) - 4. Astronomy (Number in space & time).
That's of course very appealing to the brain having such a promise of a nice and simple connecting structure of usually undisclosed ratios, which at first sight seems to dispel the complexities of modern science, which in turn probably is a derivative function of an obfuscated education system with its segregated disciplines. I still haven't actually read the books fully, but they have been good visual inspiration in reinstating wonder about science, because they are so well illustrated, with many examples of surprising ratio coincidences - mathematical beauty. Though I'm not sure how I could use the information in any practical way, other than level inspiration for the 'mathemystical' pattern based computer games I was tinkering with a while back.