[Synapse elist] elist Digest, Vol 7, Issue 13 - Mapping the meaning of Physics

[Simeon Lockhart Nelson]

Hello All

Jeremy's map reminds me of some of the maps of the earthly paradise I  
was researching at the Royal Geographical Society in London and. It  
is very nice in a non-reductive sort of way and covers some of the  
overlapping issues in physics and metaphysics. I have just been  
attending a science and religion course in Cambridge with input from  
leading cosmologists, biologists, neuroscientists, theologians and  
others. This course was very useful to me in situating a scientific  
understanding of the world in an expended field of enquiry that  
explored subjectivity, self-referentiality, and discussed the wider  
implications of science within both theistic and naturalistic paradigms.

The Anthropic principle, what science has to say about ethics and the  
current antagonism between some scientists and some forms of  
religious belief where main points of discussion and the course also  
addressed many myths about the historical relationship between  
science and religion as well as the current crisis in the United  
States between forms of religious fundamentalism and science.

Jeremy's map covers much of the territory discussed and I would like  
to forward it to the organisers if that is OK.

It was quite humbling to spend a week with such intellectual  
firepower. We also nearly fell over Stephen Hawking being helped into  
a cab. Cambridge is a place of living legends!

Please go here for course details http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/ 
faraday/Short_course.php?Course_selection=18&Mode=Old

and below for a blog by a physicist who attended
http://coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com/


best

Simeon

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> Hello all,
> I've just made a new map and thought it appropriate that I announce it
> here first.
> It is a map of the meaning of physics that covers both the natural and
> the spiritual.
> www.gpsdrawing.com/maps/meaning_of_physics.html
>
> A note on GPS drawing and process:
> Seeing the rhythms and patterns of ones tracks can have the affect of
> seeing your own ghost. The qualities of line in GPS drawings can
> reveal a great deal about movement and process. Just like a pencil
> drawing where smooth lines have a different speed to jagged edges, GPS
> drawings can detail the elegant lines of a railway and a squiggly walk
> to the local shops. As a pencil can momentarily pauses in its
> progression, we might hesitate or wait before crossing a road. The
> speed of travel can also be coloured to indicate the cold blues of
> slow dithering to red hot top speeds, and the altitude of tracks can
> add pressure and depth of line.
>
> Thank you Allard for your insight into Songlines. It seems that to
> name and communicate after words fail us we can describe with pictures
> and symbols, and beyond the surface they are drawn on we can sing of
> our surroundings. Has anyone studied the maps in music? Are there any
> maps of Edvard Grieg's Norwegian landscapes or of the harmonies and
> textures of Claude Debussy?
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy Wood.
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