Hmuan Barin, Prat II

[cal val]

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?

 

[bruce]

Taht's petrty ferakin azmaing! It jsut geos to porve - the mnid is an awoesme tihng.

 

[bruce]

I think (not to get too serious here) that it says something about our cognitive abilities, to fill in the blanks between the knowns, such as in a reading/interpretation. The mind naturally moves toward a natural wholeness, as LiSe describes in her hex. 63. I?ve maintained for some time that what is often credited as intuition is really our own cognitive abilities to fill in the spaces. What separates an effective reading from an ineffective one is the level of consciousness from which the cognition operates.

 

[void]

The mind/brain makes a recognisable pattern , 'naturally moves to a wholeness'. Downside is this exact same tendency leads us into assumptions, pigeon holing , stereotyping etc etc. We do it because its a very efficient way for out brains to process alot of information, trouble is it also makes us overlook some information.

My point being... sometimes our cognitive abilities filling in the spaces is very helpful to us...but sometimes can make us totally overlook what we do not expect because it doesn't fit. Someone once said the value of consulting Yi is that even if it was all a load of utter nonsense it would have the value of helping us view a situation in a new light, by giving us such a bizarre sentence or image, that such applied to our current view of the problem totally refreshes it.

 

[void]

BTW I actually read the title of this thread as Barin Prat 11 -- I only just got it, heh heh I think my synapses are struggling...

 

[bruce]

Hi Void,

I completely agree with the pros and cons you?ve mentioned. Using the word ?intuitive? can imply ?unquestionable?, as though the answer comes from God or a higher authority. The word ?cognitive? places the responsibility of accuracy squarely upon the hexagrams (first and last letter of a word?) and our own ability to "creatively" sort through it. Not that there is no such thing as pure intuition, either. I believe that when we?re ?well tuned in?, genuine intuition can indeed occur. But even that depends upon our own consciousness.

I only mentioned this because Val?s misspelling quote seemed a pretty good example of how this process happens.

 

[lightofdarkness]

The experiments also reflect the use of recursion where the first and last letters reflect the 'poles' of the meaning being recursed (and so begin/end in general... which gets us into the skeletal format of hexagrams - XOR top and bottom lines to show the 'raw', the 'skeletal' form of the meaning. IOW given the 27-ness of a hexagram you can figure out what it is about in particular.

The XOR-ing dynamic will apply to ALL recursively-derived languages. Since letters/words are pointers to emotions and the set of possible emotions can be shown to be derived recursively, so the properties of the method will pop up in the interpretations of letters etc.

That said, also note that vowels are processed differently than consonants and vowels act to 'fill in' the middle (ht is hat or hot or hit or hut). IN Tsunoda's study of polensian and japanese, where whole sentances can be made of only vowels, he claimed to have found different processing methods.

Cs