QUANDO O PRIMEIRO HOMEM DAS CAVERNAS USOU UMA PEDRA PARA QUEBRAR UMA FRUTA DURA, ELE USAVA JÁ UMA FERRAMENTA, QUE PODE SER CHAMADA DE "EXTENSÃO DE SEU CORPO". ACHO QUE O ÓTIMO TEXTO DA PERGUNTA DE Tieu-Tieu Le Phung DEVE SER PUBLICADO EM REVISTA CIENTÍFICA.

Hi André Valério Sales thanks for your recommendation, I will expand on my ideas here in Researchgate. I don't publish in scientific journals because:

But thanks so much for your interest and recommendations.

Please have a look at these videos to see how a monk's tool is an extension of himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbow21FKJS4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUewEWi9SE

This relation between us and our tools is a symbiotic one, our tools are shaped by us, but especially with AI, it changes us.

Tools are part of us, and yet they're not. It's why I used the HOLOBIONT to describe this relationship.

(4) How might a new Learning Theory be conceived as Liquid Holobiont Learning? | ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_might_a_new_Learning_Theory_be_conceived_as_Liquid_Holobiont_Learning

(4) What is a Liquid Holobiont Learner? | ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_a_Liquid_Holobiont_Learner

André Valério Sales if you must know, I think the H Index is heading towards huge problems as researchers incorporate AI to support their research. How do you determine Authorship? Who or what gets the Copyrights?

This has complications for the Research Gameplay and Game Mechanics. So what I am trying to cultivate is NOT WHETHER I AM CITED or not, but whether my visual essays are BEING SEEN.

Visual Essays enable me to combine the sciences and the arts togther. Perhaps the REGIME of CITATION needs to shift to the REGIME of SIGHTATION (because AI can't do curating and collage, at least via the leaps with the imagination of the human artist).

André Valério Sales Archeology as presented in museums, that's something worth excavating: the excavation of excavations.

Tieu-Tieu Le Phung

Is contradiction an extension of tool qua weapon (矛盾)?

Karl Pfeifer there´s contradiction, then again, there´s paradox and oxymoron. I think though you´re coming from an Aristotelian´s approach to logic.

I suspect Chinese logic, if there´s one, is altogether something else.

Opposites within yin and yang are not binaries but ongoing flux.

But it´s interesting that you suggest weapon, because there are defensive and offensive weapons.

Does that make defence and offence a contradiction?

https://dict.baidu.com/s?wd=%E8%87%AA%E7%9B%B8%E7%9F%9B%E7%9B%BE&ptype=zici

https://www.0000w.com/zq/10440811.html

http://edu.sina.com.cn/kids/blogs/2013-07-24/141075712.shtml

Hi Karl Pfeifer Note it´s not merely a contradiction, it´s TO CONTRADICT ONESELF...

http://edu.sina.com.cn/kids/blogs/2013-07-24/141075712.shtml

Tieu-Tieu Le Phung

RE: "Note it´s not merely a contradiction, it´s TO CONTRADICT ONESELF..."

Yes, I know that it's a logical contradiction. I was thinking of those paradoxical Zen koans that, in a metaphorical sense, are weapons against the self or against dualism.

Karl Pfeifer

Zhuangzi often used paradoxes, anecdotes, and humor to convey his ideas about Daoism and the relativity of things. The concept of contradicting oneself in Zhuangzi's perspective can be understood through his emphasis on the relativity of truths and the limitations of language in expressing the Dao (the Way).

In Zhuangzi's philosophy, the idea of contradicting oneself might be related to the limitations of conventional thinking and language in capturing the profound truths of the Dao. He often used stories and dialogues to illustrate that what may seem contradictory on the surface could reveal a deeper, more profound understanding of reality when one transcends conventional distinctions.

In the cliched tale of the butterfly dream. In this story, he questions the certainty of reality and dreams, suggesting that what we perceive as contradictions might be inherent aspects of the ever-changing nature of existence.

Therefore, in Zhuangzi's perspective, contradicting oneself could be a way of challenging conventional thinking, encouraging individuals to look beyond apparent contradictions and recognize the interconnected and dynamic nature of the Dao. It's a call to transcend dualistic and linear modes of thought in favor of a more holistic understanding of the world.

This is why IT'S TO CONTRADICT ONE SELF.

You might want to think of it as embodied logic... but that's probably to contradict myself...

Karl Pfeifer

To me, Zhuangzi's writing is really suitable for today's flux and risks associated with such turbulence. Maybe this COLLAGE might generate some understanding for you. It's actually my first attempt to come up with a research proposal for Peter Reimann. But I just couldn't put it into a research proposal. So I went off and used visuals simply on the basis of intuitive recognition. It's taken me this long to start formulating to what I was trying to acheive. Being mad helped alot, you might say, it literally reset MYSELF (as opposed to my mind).

Karl Pfeifer maybe I could retrace my steps with this concept of the SOBJECT.

The notion withe SOBJECT actually appeared as a footnote to this paper, one that I wrote for Peter's course. Because Peter is a real stinch when it came to word count, I chopped a whole lot off the paper and stuck it in the appendix of the paper:

There I wrote:

Particularly pertinent to the proposed “Sobject” concept are the writings of Turkle (1984, 1994,2011) that chart ways in which technologies no longer function merely as tool objects, but rather are integral to the fluidity of people’s identities, resulting in the hybrid cyborg selves that defy clear binary distinctions and linear progressions. Such issues of identity and bionic social actors functionalities are relevant to the exploration and analysis of epistemic games (Schaffer, 2006).This is a rich area concerning TPK, particularly as explanatory modelling, for the learning activities arising from epistemic frames. As a comprehensive learning mechanism generated“through” computer games and other interactive learning environments, epistemic frames purportedly help students to deal more effectively with real world situations. Learners, acting“with” tools, constructing “from” media, and interacting “through” actor-like interactions generated through these computer games, epistemic technologies raise issues of how learning,and possibly also surveillance, is manifested via increased capabilities, broadening and yet filtering experiences, simulating life-like, but ultimately fabricated, social interactions.

With a workforce being increasing re- tooled/ trained/ skilled with, from and through technology,via the engagement, construction, and creation of skills, knowledge, identity, values,epistemology (Shaffer, 2006), and ethics [i.e., KSAVE as abbreviation of knowledge, skills,attitudes, values, and ethics] (Binkley, Erstad, et al, 2012), the knowledge worker (Drucker,1999) may yet to be superseded by the rise of the “Sobject” worker. Such workforce would draw on multiple [i.e. active, constructive, interactive] learning possibilities “with” [as tools], “from”[as media, resources, and learning artefacts] and “through” [as social actors] technology,resulting in a cyborg like identity compounded by bionic abilities but yet constrained by an allt too human cognitive architecture (Sweller, 1988). Whether agents like epistemic games (Shaffer,2006) or other simulations, can reduce work and information overload (Maes, 1994) or actually form oppressive surveillance regimes (Foucault cited in Lyon, 1994; Sewell, 1998) remains to be seen in DBR as it seems, we are really still grasping with what technology means, ontologically,epistemologically, and practically, in training and education. Learning With, From, & Through Technology: Re-Designing TPACK as TPACK9. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259942338_Learning_With_From_Through_Technology_Re-Designing_TPACK_as_TPACK9 [accessed Dec 05 2023].

Tieu-Tieu Le Phung

I took a quick and very superficial look. Lots of blank pages. Unfortunately the 1984 link is dead. The idea of the flaneur reminded me of this:

From The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:

sonder n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own— populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

Karl Pfeifer the blank pages were meant to be filled with more images, it gave rise to this:

Preprint The Experiential Grammar of Liquid Technology: Towards the F...

Tieu-Tieu Le Phung

My 2¢ worth:

You say: "I don't publish in scientific journals because:

I answer: (1) There are many journals that let you keep copyright. (2) can be a problem, but there are better and worse ways of presenting visuals, and some journals are more accommodating than others (3) Visuals don't stand on their own. You need to embed them in explanations and you need to unpack the nice-sounding figures of speech. A visual essay shouldn't look like a PowerPoint presentation and the explanations should consist of more than aphorisms.

(4) A relevant quotation about self-doubt: "It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not."

Karl Pfeifer My 5 Bob's worth...

I think the H-Index is doomed, because as implicated by my concept of SOBJECT, I think the divisibility and indivisibility (hence the Holobiont) of authorship in the face of AI and pressures faced by universities raise so much complexities with publish or perish.

Karl Pfeifer I am actually thinking of producing a linear and nonlinear version to Deuleuze Guittari's 1000 Plateaus, maybe I call it Liquid Plateaus...