Bringing things together……

Thanks to The Obvious? for pointing these out to me…..

A Field-Guide To The Associative Nature Of Our Own Minds.:

“The brain has no hard edges; neither does information. There are no gray interior walls to prevent ideas from wandering across the boundaries between and among fields. Many paths of curiosity lead to intellectual, artistic and scientific questioning, and onward to understanding……In academia, and public schools, intellectual fields are guarded turfs or territories that reflect societal values and belief systems. They are not necessary artifacts of information, of knowledge, or of nature. Believing that a rigid separation between intellectual fields is real and necessary is dangerous to our developing knowledge……..

….we typically stumble upon the unknown by surprise while on a random walk, when an experiment fails, or while showering, falling asleep, or waking. In those moments, our logical training is at rest, our attentional focus diffused, and unconscious process rises to near the surface of our awareness. These are the playing-fields of associative creativity. In these fields there are no fences that we cannot lightly step over, indeed we hardly notice them.”

and The Birth of “The Metaweb” — The Next Big Thing — What We are All Really Building