“The brain contributes to consciousness but does not determine it” – Robert Pepperell

The Post Human Condition

Is there a distinction between our mind and body, mental and physical states and body and the environment?

“Everything owes it’s existence to sound”

– Hans Jenny

“We are deeply integrated into our human environment” – Hans Jenny

“There is no fixed state of a living human” – Robert Pepperell

“The brain contributes to consciousness but does not determine it” – Pepperall

There is a blur between us and the objects that surround us.

Gaia – James Lovelock

“We do indeed belong here. The earth is more than just a home, it’s a living system and we are part of it.” – Lovelock

 Long ago the Greeks, thinking this way, gave to the Earth the name Gaia or, for short, Ge. In those days, science and theology were one and science, although less precise, had soul. As time passed this warm relationship faded and was replaced by the frigidity of the schoolmen. The life sciences, no longer concerned with life, fell to classifying dead things and even to vivisection. Ge was stolen from theology to become no more the root from which the disciplines of geography and geology were named. Now at last there are signs of a change. Science becomes holistic again and rediscovers soul, and theology, moved by ecumenical forces, begins to realise that Gaia is not to be subdivided for academic convenience and that Ge is much more than just a prefix.

– http://www.ecolo.org/lovelock/what_is_Gaia.html

 

Homeostasis –

The tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, esp. as maintained by physiological processes.

Our bodys are constantly responding to the things going on around us. We generate things for our bodies to respond too.

By making music we are rearranging the things around us.

Everything effects everything.

Reflexivity – Katherine Hayles

Cause and Effect.

“It is a mistake to seperate the thing that thinks and the thing that is thought about” – Pepperell P.33

Interrupting the flow –

The more that we have to think about something to understand it the more we engage and therefor the more creative we are.

“Composition functions at the interception between noise and structure”