Author: Sam Lindsey
Assignment: Post #5, Davis Chapter 4 & 5, "Geological timeline using the model of the atom" (The "mind map" groups way of looking at a chapter)
Again, I began this process by taking into account the key ideas of the chapter and then highlighting them as I read. So we have something that goes sort of similar to the list in my previous post, but now I will be turning that list into the picture of an "atom". Due to the sort of nature of the geological timeline being more structured as one item on top of the other it was a little difficult to implement this model because you'd expect the main idea to be in the middle with one or two surrounding rings. So, I thought of a model that had many more rings (so as to differentiate them in a more standard way). While still interacting with one another, the increase in rings makes it more obvious to identify the hierarchy of ideas, one coming after the other. In some ways I even began to think of my drawing like the rings of a tree, the older in the middle rings and the newer in the outer rings. And while that may not be exactly the same way the other group thought about their way of organization I think it lends itself a little easier to ours....
We can also begin to think about the ways in which each of these chapters can interact with one another through our organizations. Atoms that stick together forms bonds by sharing elections so one idea I had had (if we were to expand the atom over the course of the entire book) was to have each chapter be its own atom and the electrons that those chapters shared were important to the entire story, forming C6H12O6 and the like with bonds overlapping between atoms.
Here's the visualization & groupings that I took away from chapter 4:
1. Gnosticism
2. Freemasonry
a. reason
b. science
c. proper civil society
d. rationalism & esoteric mysticism come together
e. deism
f. natural liberty
3. The American Frontier
a. the cowboy
4. Cyberspace
a. a group
b. "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"
5. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
6. Libertarianism
a. anarchism
7. The Net
8. The Fall
9. Extropy
10. "Technologies of Transformation
11. The Singularity
12. Uploading the mind to the "mainframe"
(I apologize if it's difficult to see)
Here's the visualization & groupings that I took away from chapter 5:
1. Res Cogitans
2. Res Extensa
3. Shamans
a. G.I. Gurdjieff
b. Escape
c. "Man is Machine"
4. Buddhist Psychology
a. "Heaps"
5. L. Ron Hubbard
a. Dianetics
b. The "Active" and "Re-active" Minds
c. The "Tech"
d. The "E-meter"
6. Scientology
a. Xenu
b. Brainwashing
7. The Technological Society
a. The System
b. The Electric Guitar
8. Drugs
a. LSD
9. Gregory Bateson
a. Cybernetic Zen
b. Humanist Psychology
c. Biofeedback
10. John Dods
11. Anthony Robbins
12. Charles Tart
a. John Lilly
b. Cosmic Computer
13. The Human Genome Project
14. "Consensus Trance"
a. "Freedom"
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