"The Dynamic Eclectic" was my exploration of methods for overcoming "constancies of perception". It developed from earlier experimentation in automatic writing and surrealism which in turn had sprung from reading Joyce's "Ulysses", and critical reviews of the artwork of Dali and Marcel Duchamp. (Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase" (1912) visually
expressed some earlier
Preliminary outline:
1) Practice of Repetitions
A.) Like mirrors in front of mirrors
(1) as a memory device
(2) and rough sketch of the infinite
2) How the Mind Wound Up in Fetters
A) Least common denominator theory
(1) "Sons of God" fornicating with "daughters of men": two cultures in contact... the noble declines more than the base is elevated.
(2) "Convention" as a communication tool coming from least common denominator idea deteriorates to "constancies of perception".
3) "Adventuring" as a remedy to constancy.
4) Complete Analysis of Realities
A) in part invisible because of constancy (we don't see things as they are but as we're accustomed to seeing them)
(1) Stereotyped, patterned perceptions based on the shorthand of words or labels we apply to things. We think we understand "tree" because we have the word "tree". The word becomes the reality for us without much exploration of individual examples or unique cases of what the word is used to denote.
(2) Classification alters perception. (Related to Mark Twain's observations in "Life on the Mississippi" that the river lost its romance once he came to see it in the way he did as a riverboat captain.)
B) and in part invisible because of our limited sensory apparatus
(1) limited bandwidth of frequencies we actually perceive.
(2) limited number of dimensions we actually perceive
5) Clarifying Synthesis
A) Manifested in scintillating forms which by their nature cannot be frozen in constancies
(1) constant emerging kaleidoscopic "flowering" akin to the Mandelbrot set.
1) Practice of Repetitions
A.) Like mirrors in front of mirrors
(1) as a memory device
(2) and rough sketch of the infinite
2) How the Mind Wound Up in Fetters
A) Least common denominator theory
(1) "Sons of God" fornicating with "daughters of men": two cultures in contact... the noble declines more than the base is elevated.
(2) "Convention" as a communication tool coming from least common denominator idea deteriorates to "constancies of perception".
3) "Adventuring" as a remedy to constancy.
4) Complete Analysis of Realities
A) in part invisible because of constancy (we don't see things as they are but as we're accustomed to seeing them)
(1) Stereotyped, patterned perceptions based on the shorthand of words or labels we apply to things. We think we understand "tree" because we have the word "tree". The word becomes the reality for us without much exploration of individual examples or unique cases of what the word is used to denote.
(2) Classification alters perception. (Related to Mark Twain's observations in "Life on the Mississippi" that the river lost its romance once he came to see it in the way he did as a riverboat captain.)
B) and in part invisible because of our limited sensory apparatus
(1) limited bandwidth of frequencies we actually perceive.
(2) limited number of dimensions we actually perceive
5) Clarifying Synthesis
A) Manifested in scintillating forms which by their nature cannot be frozen in constancies
(1) constant emerging kaleidoscopic "flowering" akin to the Mandelbrot set.
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