Comments on: National Poetry Month: Poetical Understanding of Reality http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Fri, 17 May 2013 12:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: National Poetry Month: Technology and new poetic forms. : OUPblog http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1511 National Poetry Month: Technology and new poetic forms. : OUPblog Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:11:54 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1511 [...] King Otho [...] [...] King Otho [...]

]]> By: Eric http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1014 Eric Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:25:13 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1014 ive always loved good poetry, and the buffalo readings is the perfect place to share and listen to it. ive always loved good poetry, and the buffalo readings is the perfect place to share and listen to it.

]]> By: Mary Kenny http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1013 Mary Kenny Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:58:30 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1013 As a fan of the Buffalo Readings, I am consistently amazed at how honest and raw their talent is. Life weaves itself in, around, and out again through their words and music. I hope to continue hearing more in future readings. As a fan of the Buffalo Readings, I am consistently amazed at how honest and raw their talent is. Life weaves itself in, around, and out again through their words and music.

I hope to continue hearing more in future readings.

]]> By: Noah Levin http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1006 Noah Levin Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:10:54 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1006 > A layman, poet’s view: Gravity and time, although physical concepts, are stated & defined in language; albeit scientific language. Language, on the other hand, is simply a way to define things so that both the listener & person who formed the thought can understand what is going on and what was said. You see, all things are language; math, science, speech. Language in its purist form (at least in my mind) is the art of definition & communication. Therefore, before you've begun, all things become related. Or, to put this another way: 1) Gravity & time exist as entities by themselves whether you are looking at them or not. 2) Mind, on a personal non-religious level, is constantly trying to understand everything around it. 3) To understand the universe around it, the mind looks at existing entities such as Gravity & Time and begins to put it in a description that the mind understands. Whether that description is correct or incorrect, it will not change what Gravity or Time are doing while they are going about their merry way in the universe. Therefore, anytime you or I refer to Gravity or Time, it is simply our concept of it: one particular angle of looking at something, if you will, since there are probably multiple ways to say the same thing in different words. The connection between mind and everything we see will always be intertwined since we are always referring to our mind's perception of what is around us. -Noah >

A layman, poet’s view:

Gravity and time, although physical concepts, are stated & defined in language; albeit scientific language. Language, on the other hand, is simply a way to define things so that both the listener & person who formed the thought can understand what is going on and what was said. You see, all things are language; math, science, speech. Language in its purist form (at least in my mind) is the art of definition & communication. Therefore, before you’ve begun, all things become related. Or, to put this another way:

1) Gravity & time exist as entities by themselves whether you are looking at them or not.
2) Mind, on a personal non-religious level, is constantly trying to understand everything around it.
3) To understand the universe around it, the mind looks at existing entities such as Gravity & Time and begins to put it in a description that the mind understands. Whether that description is correct or incorrect, it will not change what Gravity or Time are doing while they are going about their merry way in the universe. Therefore, anytime you or I refer to Gravity or Time, it is simply our concept of it: one particular angle of looking at something, if you will, since there are probably multiple ways to say the same thing in different words.

The connection between mind and everything we see will always be intertwined since we are always referring to our mind’s perception of what is around us.

-Noah

]]> By: King Otho http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1001 King Otho Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:50:54 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/2007/04/reality/#comment-1001 To call mind a consciousness factory gives the impression that mind creates consciousness. Mind is eternal. The brain is a harbor in which mind docks and becomes consciouss of the reality of being. To call mind a consciousness factory gives the impression that mind creates consciousness. Mind is eternal. The brain is a harbor in which mind docks and becomes consciouss of the reality of being.

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