Saturday, May 26, 2007

indirect communication

Kierkegaard's authorship was written behind the mask of several pseudonymous characters he created to represent different ways of thinking. This was part of Kierkegaard's indirect communication. Kierkegaard wrote this way in order to prevent his works from being treated as a philosophical system with a systematic structure. In the Point of View, Kierkegaard wrote: "In the pseudonymous works, there is not a single word which is mine. I have no opinion about these works except as a third person, no knowledge of their meaning, except as a reader, not the remotest private relation to them."

Kierkegaard used indirect communication to make it difficult to ascertain whether he actually held any of the views presented in his works. He hoped readers would simply read the work at face value without attributing it to some aspect of his life. Kierkegaard also did not want his readers to treat his work as an authoritative system, but rather look to themselves for interpretation.

It's the same mechanism used on Milton Erickson's open trance work and Coetzee's dialogues on Elizabeth Costello to create contraposition and tension.

Friday, May 25, 2007

lógica y física

*la razón no constituye el ser del universo, sino sólo uno de los seres del cerebro humano. sólo un margen, sólo un espectro.

*la neurociencia de hoy argumenta que nuestra 'razón' está siempre subordinada al intercambio químico del momento y a la estructura neural ya existente, que es dependiente de nuestro estado emocional y de nuestro mapa cognitivo previo y que nuestros mismos dialogos internos alteran tanto al mapa como a la química.

*Emoción y razón están conectadas en un bucle cerrado que se alimenta y perpetua a si mismo.