Memory
DELIBERATELY MYSTERIOUS: NOT THE WHOLE STORY
Summary

• The middle way chooses ambiguity to survive between 'Process' and 'Representation'By defying definition the middle way hopes to survive
• By seeing other ways or strategies you may appear unsafe to people who use 'process' or 'representation'
• There are many metaphors for unsafety

1. Memory is incomplete,
"When brains plug holes in their conceptualizations of yesterday and tomorrow, they tend to use a material called today. " 'Stumbling on Happiness', Daniel Gilbert
The memory of clean laundry, table cloths, freshly ironed pillow cases. Climbing into the airing cupboard.
Recounting your memories is a form of story telling.I want things to be hard to decipher, to infer a feeling of incompleteness.

"..studies show that when people do not complete the things they set out to do, they are especially likely to think about and remember their unfinished business...if an event defies explanation, it becomes a mystery or a conundrum..which refuses to stay in the back of our minds."DG
"We cannot do without reality and we cannot do without illusion. Each serves a purpose, each imposes a limit on the influence of the other, and our experience of the world is the artful compromise that these tough competitors negotiate." DG
"Distored views of reality are made possible by the fact that experiences are ambiguous - ie. they can be credibly viewed in many ways, some of which are more positive than others".DG Everything is being catered for.
A beautiful countryside scene which is suffering from global warming.
Equilibrium, harmony.

"When brains plug holes in their conceptualizations of yesterday and tomorrow, they tend to use a material called today. " 'Stumbling on Happiness', Daniel Gilbert "Unexplained events have two qualities that amplify and extend their emotional impact. First, they strike us as rare and unusual. Second, we are more likely to keep thinking about them."DG2. The Universe - Inverse spaces - Dark Matter - Whiteread sprays the inside of things and then removes the thing - leaving the inverse or negative space (which becomes positive). The lecture I think won my heartfelt obsession was given by David McLagan, who had written a book on "Earth Spirit" and talked about creation myths.   One particular illustration in his book was of "a partial view of immensity" and showed a corner of the universe depicted by a collection of spheres piled up against each other.   This really fascinated me and touched on subjects like theoretical physics, philosophy and theology. On further research I find that David McLagan was an Art Therapy Lecturer in Leeds. 3. Potential and beginnings - Joel Fisher - paper making, the ground - finding a beginning. 4. The Psychology of Perception, the Gestault system.The key properties of Gestalt systems are emergence, reification, multistability, and invariance.Emergence is demonstrated by the perception of the Dog Picture, which depicts a Dalmatian dog sniffing the ground in the shade of overhanging trees. The dog is not recognized by first identifying its parts (feet, ears, nose, tail, etc.), and then inferring the dog from those component parts. Instead, the dog is perceived as a whole, all at once. See 'School'. Reification is the constructive or generative aspect of perception, by which the experienced percept contains more explicit spatial information than the sensory stimulus on which it is based.For instance, a triangle will be perceived in picture A, although no triangle has actually been drawn. In pictures B and D the eye will recognise disparate shapes as "belonging" to a single shape, in C a complete three-dimensional shape is seen, where in actuality no such thing is drawn. See 'He had the power' Multistability (or Multistable perception) is the tendency of ambiguous perceptual experiences to pop back and forth unstably between two or more alternative interpretations. This is seen for example in the Necker cube, and in Rubin's Figure / Vase illusion shown to the right. Other examples include the 'three-pronged widget' and artist M.C. Escher's artwork and the appearance of flashing marquee lights moving first one direction and then suddenly the other.Invariance is the property of perception whereby simple geometrical objects are recognized independent of rotation, translation, and scale; as well as several other variations such as elastic deformations, different lighting, and different component features. For example, the objects in A in the figure are all immediately recognized as the same basic shape, which are immediately distinguishable from the forms in B. They are even recognized despite perspective and elastic deformations as in C, and when depicted using different graphic elements as in D.Web-based forums and email providers rely on invariance of human perception to prevent automated bots from exploiting the services. A CAPTCHA test presents a distorted image of letters and numbers, not readable by computers, and prompts user to correctly type the string.Emergence, reification, multistability, and invariance are not separable modules to be modeled individually, but they are different aspects of a single unified dynamic mechanism.So what was making me so hesitant? Maybe I ask too many questions.

"If you are not allowed to express emotions you have trouble making decisions." (Daniel Gilbert).

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