Walter Logeman: Journal
This book, Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950, from 1990 is only available second-hand – too expensive. I then found the Google edition below.
Later:
This book and all of Korzybski’s books are for sale cheaply at General Semantics Institute online
Later
I a Bought Science & Sanity from GSI – arrived in days! It is also online here.
Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950 follows (embedded)
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GENERAL SEMANTICS: An Outline Survey
by Kenneth G. Johnson 3rd Edition Revised
A very interesting Outline! This is by the same guy who I quoted earlier.
11.4 “ ‘You’d be interested to know,’ he (the psychiatrist) said, ‘how many people come to me with troubles that are largely a matter of nomenclature. They suffer the tortures of the damned at the idea that a particular label may fit them or may not fit them. ‘Am I a man? Am I a coward? Am I a failure? Am I an invert? Sometimes, simply, am I a lunatic?’ If you could only get it through your head that it’s you, only you, who’s pinning the label on or taking it off, you’d have your problem half licked.’ ”
– Louis Auchincloss [14]
From the Preludes to an Autobiography 1955, following a link in an earlier post. I discovered that this is one and the same as the Preludes in “Who Shall Survive?” where this passage appears on page lxiii
I am still tracking the article in Sociometry mentioned in that earlier post. The Christchurch Psychodrama library has every volume bar 1946 1/2 !
Quote follows
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427370.500-how-our-brains-build-social-worlds.html?full=true
How can such behaviour be explained in terms of neuroscience? We think that two people performing together in this way are best described as a single, complex system rather than as two systems interacting. We also believe the same kinds of description should be applied generally to the brain activity that occurs when two people interact, because their brains also become a single complex system.
Twitter and the Global Brain
© 2009 Dean Pomerleau
An essay linking the nervous system and the global network.
My comments follow.
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The link journey continues and, as some may have known, we meet Robert Anton Wilson on the way. A Korzybski prophet it would seem. Not as mad as he might appear. General Semantics has psychology spouting in all directions. And of interest to me is the whole question of the relationship of physics and psyche ( my article The Future of Knowing in a pdf.
(PS the image is one I made from photos using software.)
Links to books follow.
http://nexusforchange.wikispaces.com/file/view/DF-WC+presentation.ppt
Classical science is a subset of quantum science
PowerPoint by Jim Rough.
I love the way my various enthusiasms come together.
Thinking creātically: a systematic, interdisciplinary approach to creative … By Kenneth G. Johnson
That is the Amazon link to the used books at a huge price.
As part of my link journey on the General Semantic theme I found it on Google and took a snap off the screen with the iphone of some references I wanted.
More details of my process and the book follows.
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I have enjoyed some of the writing and audio from Al Turtle a relationship therapist. I get an RSS feed of his updates and today found a link to his favourite books. Great idea!
I found an ebook of A. E. Van Vogt’s The World of Null-A, non-Aristotelian logic in SF form. I see that this is not a one-off in Al’s list! He is into General Semantics – intrigued I went off on a search trail.
The Art of Being Useless, just googled that, and it does not come up! Let me add “George Sweet”… It does come up: here is a reference. I got the manme wrong. The Advantage of Being Useless.
I wanted to write about the art of being useless. (I should write a companion piece for my art blog.)
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I want to simply reflect (after that prelude) on these words (in no particular order):
Contained
Restrained
Constrained
Receptive
Passive
Silent
Attentive
Absorbed
Engrossed
Reflective
Mindful
Conscious
Alert
Present
Centered
Wait
Watch
Wonder
Patient