meikaTue, Apr 22, 2008 well, I've read this for the third time and now that I have, I am thinking, it's really three posts. Or rather, three incomprehensive posts, which you didn't write about, and neither have I yet, so....
We write in serial mediums because that is how we have come to share things, technologicallyspeaking, taking our turn in conversations, just as we take our turn as we pass through the seven ages of a life. These stories help put us compose our place and make sense of the second incomprehension (socius), and just as surely as they put us in our place.
We mind map when we describe our individual, inner view, before we have serialised it for consumption by others in the second incomprehension (socius). This is the first incomprehension but only as it appears to each of us as individuals, as we are ego-centred and thus motivated, we think we come first. First incomprehension (self-awareness).
We'll let it come first here because the second incomprehension is such a forgiving beast.
Other peoples' mind maps are hard to read, because they describe the other's experience, and what we experience in reading a mind map, is not their own mind as it is to them within their landscape, but our journey across their map. And the map is not the territory, even if the metaphor is the message. Not yet anyway.
But the attempt will inform the shared landscape (second incomprehension).
Now, the third part... where did it go, I was sure I just put it down here next to the final third incomprehension, but now it's not, so...
Okay, found it, hypertext...
Hypertext is actually a compromise between the mindmap and the linear story or turn-taking dialogue. For it allows the reader to chose to skip around or continue on reading as some writer intended/allowed. (I tend to hover over a link, read the location and either skip or open in a new tab, that's how I parse links, read the spoor, choose my route through the linkage ecology, ignoring, defering, chasing, gathering.)
Mind maps give no choice but that readers must choose, and skip around. Writers of mind maps attempt to describe the whole, but on this side, our inputs are still linear, as we all have tin ears when it comes to others whole experience. For the moment.
Linear stories give no choice either, unless you stop reading...
Hyperlinks, we'll, the reader can take them or leave them.
Now, where did I put the third incomprehension, I just put it down here, right next to hypertext.
Did anyone see it?
also, after reading this post and researching various mindmapping software, discovered that my favourite mindmapping program, freemind, can have it's maps natively imported by the wiki engine Wikkawiki
well, I've read this for the third time and now that I have, I am thinking, it's really three posts. Or rather, three incomprehensive posts, which you didn't write about, and neither have I yet, so....
The animal is the original metaphor, in carrying over it's movement it composes both body and landscape from the substance of the terrain, thus does the animal give language its grammar. Subject-Verb-Object. The animal carved out the cave from the bedrock of evolution, and that the shamans sat in.
In turn, return, this structure immediately becomes a new substrate over which said languaging animal can move, and of course, this substrate, as it is consumed in part and defecated on, becomes a new nourishing terrain, and the composition of body and landscape continues.
Call it virtual, religious, artistic, it's motive force is not hunger or sex, but meaning. What does it mean? And how can I make it?
The story of the animal walking through its landscape is that from the POV inside the animal, which in walking with friends and family, becomes a shared interwoven landscape of culture, and dialogue.
We write in serial mediums because that is how we have come to share things, technologically speaking, taking our turn in conversations, just as we take our turn as we pass through the seven ages of a life. These stories help put us compose our place and make sense of the second incomprehension (socius), and just as surely as they put us in our place.
We mind map when we describe our individual, inner view, before we have serialised it for consumption by others in the second incomprehension (socius). This is the first incomprehension but only as it appears to each of us as individuals, as we are ego-centred and thus motivated, we think we come first. First incomprehension (self-awareness).
We'll let it come first here because the second incomprehension is such a forgiving beast.
Other peoples' mind maps are hard to read, because they describe the other's experience, and what we experience in reading a mind map, is not their own mind as it is to them within their landscape, but our journey across their map. And the map is not the territory, even if the metaphor is the message. Not yet anyway.
But the attempt will inform the shared landscape (second incomprehension).
Now, the third part... where did it go, I was sure I just put it down here next to the final third incomprehension, but now it's not, so...
Okay, found it, hypertext...
Hypertext is actually a compromise between the mindmap and the linear story or turn-taking dialogue. For it allows the reader to chose to skip around or continue on reading as some writer intended/allowed. (I tend to hover over a link, read the location and either skip or open in a new tab, that's how I parse links, read the spoor, choose my route through the linkage ecology, ignoring, defering, chasing, gathering.)
Mind maps give no choice but that readers must choose, and skip around. Writers of mind maps attempt to describe the whole, but on this side, our inputs are still linear, as we all have tin ears when it comes to others whole experience. For the moment.
Linear stories give no choice either, unless you stop reading...
Hyperlinks, we'll, the reader can take them or leave them.
Now, where did I put the third incomprehension, I just put it down here, right next to hypertext.
Did anyone see it?