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No Context Pictures<p>1978 A Collage of Portraits Reflecting a Complex Character's Journey</p><p>This image is a collage featuring multiple portraits that collectively form the facial features and expressions of what appears to be one central figure. The style suggests an artistic representation, with each face contributing unique elements such as age variations, emotions, or accessories like glasses or hats. This could symbolize various aspects of a person's life experiences, identity, or even different personalities within oneself.</p><p>The text is not present in the image; therefore, it cannot be described here.</p><p><a href="https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/11-November1978-Page-149.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/1</span><span class="invisible">1-November1978-Page-149.png</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/madman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>madman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/nocontext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nocontext</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/sfw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sfw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/artisticcollage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artisticcollage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/self" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>self</span></a>-portraiture <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/symbolicrepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbolicrepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/facialexpressions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facialexpressions</span></a></p>
No Context Pictures<p>1988 Surreal Domestic Life</p><p>None, as the focus is purely on imagery</p><p><a href="https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/12-December1988-Page-080.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/1</span><span class="invisible">2-December1988-Page-080.png</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/madman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>madman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/nocontext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nocontext</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/sfw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sfw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/surrealistart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surrealistart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/domesticspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>domesticspace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/multimediainstallation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>multimediainstallation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/mixedmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mixedmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/symbolicrepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbolicrepresentation</span></a></p>
No Context Pictures<p>1993 </p><p>The Earth is shown with spikes all around it, suggesting a dangerous or hazardous environment.<br>Tags: Earth, spikes, danger, warning, environmental statement, symbolic representation</p><p><a href="https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/04-April1993-Page-075.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/0</span><span class="invisible">4-April1993-Page-075.png</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/madman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>madman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/nocontext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nocontext</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/sfw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sfw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/spikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spikes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/danger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>danger</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/warning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/environmentalstatement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalstatement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ozioso.online/tags/symbolicrepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbolicrepresentation</span></a></p>
Jon Awbrey<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://neuromatch.social/@NicoleCRust" class="u-url mention">@<span>NicoleCRust</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@knutson_brain" class="u-url mention">@<span>knutson_brain</span></a></span></p><p>Here&#39;s the beginning of a prospective blog series I started … this topic interacts strongly with a host of others I&#39;ve been struggling to articulate over the years …</p><p>Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 6<br />• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/30/inquiry-into-inquiry-discussion-6/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04</span><span class="invisible">/30/inquiry-into-inquiry-discussion-6/</span></a></p><p>Re: Nicole Rust<br />• <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social/110197230713039748" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mathstodon.xyz/@NicoleCRust@ne</span><span class="invisible">uromatch.social/110197230713039748</span></a></p><p>❝Computations or Processes — <br />How do you think about the building blocks of the brain?❞</p><p>I keep coming back to this thread about levels, along with others on the related issue of paradigms, as those have long been major questions for me. I am trying to clarify my current understanding for a blog post. It will start out a bit like this —</p><p>A certain amount of “level” language is natural in the sciences but “level” metaphors come with hidden assumptions about higher and lower places in hierarchies which don&#39;t always fit the case at hand. In complex cases what look at first like parallel strata may in time be better comprehended as intersecting domains or mutually recursive and entangled orders of being. When that happens we can guard against misleading imagery by speaking of domains or realms instead of levels.</p><p>To be continued …</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Logic</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LogicalGraphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LogicalGraphs</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DifferentialLogic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DifferentialLogic</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CactusLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CactusLanguage</span></a><br /><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystem</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryIntoInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InquiryIntoInquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NeuralNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NeuralNetwork</span></a><br /><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Semiotics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RelationTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RelationTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SignRelation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SignRelation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TriadicRelation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TriadicRelation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Model" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Model</span></a><br /><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ObjectiveReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ObjectiveReality</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MathematicalStructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MathematicalStructure</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SymbolicRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SymbolicRepresentation</span></a></p>
Jon Awbrey<p>Inquiry Into Inquiry • Discussion 6<br />• <a href="https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04/30/inquiry-into-inquiry-discussion-6/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquiryintoinquiry.com/2023/04</span><span class="invisible">/30/inquiry-into-inquiry-discussion-6/</span></a></p><p>Re: Nicole Rust<br />• <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@NicoleCRust@neuromatch.social/110197230713039748" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mathstodon.xyz/@NicoleCRust@ne</span><span class="invisible">uromatch.social/110197230713039748</span></a></p><p>❝Computations or Processes — <br />How do you think about the building blocks of the brain?❞</p><p>I keep coming back to this thread about levels, along with others on the related issue of paradigms, as those have long been major questions for me. I am trying to clarify my current understanding for a blog post. It will start out a bit like this —</p><p>A certain amount of “level” language is natural in the sciences but “level” metaphors come with hidden assumptions about higher and lower places in hierarchies which don&#39;t always fit the case at hand. In complex cases what look at first like parallel strata may in time be better comprehended as intersecting domains or mutually recursive and entangled orders of being. When that happens we can guard against misleading imagery by speaking of domains or realms instead of levels.</p><p>To be continued …</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Peirce" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peirce</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Logic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Logic</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/LogicalGraphs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LogicalGraphs</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DifferentialLogic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DifferentialLogic</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CactusLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CactusLanguage</span></a><br /><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Inquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryDrivenSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InquiryDrivenSystem</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/InquiryIntoInquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InquiryIntoInquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/NeuralNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NeuralNetwork</span></a><br /><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Semiotics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RelationTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RelationTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SignRelation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SignRelation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TriadicRelation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TriadicRelation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Model" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Model</span></a><br /><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ObjectiveReality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ObjectiveReality</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MathematicalStructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MathematicalStructure</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SymbolicRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SymbolicRepresentation</span></a></p>
Amy Lee<p>It's important not to insult your audience. Assume they know their craft well but you have something to offer. You need to show them how your world intersects with theirs in a way they understand. It needs to be emotional and relevant to them, otherwise they won't care. And once you have the connection and they understand you, then you can use the shortcut technical term. Everytime you say it the audience should recall the structure and nature of the thing. <a href="https://social.design.systems/tags/SymbolicRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SymbolicRepresentation</span></a></p>
Gary<p>"It seems astounding to me that the idea of correspondence between brain activity and ambient features has ever been taken seriously. To see a neuron as being responsible for a percept ... is straight vitalism or animism: It attributes to one component of a system all of the properties of a description..."</p><p>"...If a car undergoes a structural change because of bumping into a tree (the fender is twisted and the front tire scratched), we do not say that it remembers the accident by storing a memory, nor do we say that it learned from the event by changing its behavior via a representation of trees. These descriptions seem ludicrous because the car is so obviously a man-made artifact. Yet it seems that the same sort of mechanistic and operational description can be applied to highly plastic autonomous systems like the nervous system. Memory requires no record or storage, for it stands only for a history of structural coupling; learning requires no representation, for it stands for structural plasticity. Whatever the observer wants to see or needs to use in symbolic descriptions, such as storage, and representation as mapping, are not operational."</p><p>Francisco J. Varela<br>Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979)</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/FranciscoJVarela" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FranciscoJVarela</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Memory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memory</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SymbolicRepresentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SymbolicRepresentation</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cognition</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybernetics</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/philosophy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>philosophy</span></a></span> </p><p>P. 259</p>