Adrian SegarActing. One of the oddities that permeate the English language is the dual meanings of the verb “to act”.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/07/acting
RiftlyGoogle destroyed the space between asking and knowing—and with it destroyed a cognitive state essential for original thought. The death of wondering.
https://riftlymedia.com/curiosity-died-when-google-made-everything-knowable/
Psychotherapy Commission ACPEThis article explains how sexual arousal can narrow attention and lead people to misinterpret ambiguous dating cues as genuine interest. It reports four studies showing that arousal increases optimistic interpretations of mixed signals, but not when rejection is clear.
This topic is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it illuminates how physiological states shape perception and social judgment, highlighting the interplay between arousal, attention, and interpretation of social signals.
Article Title: Sexual arousal creates “tunnel vision” that makes ambiguous dating cues look like interest
Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/sexual-arousal-creates-tunnel-vision-that-makes-ambiguous-dating-cues-look-like-interest/
#DatingPsychology #Arousal #Perception #SocialCognition #Ambiguity #RejectionCues #TunnelVision #RomanticInterest #ExperimentalPsychology #Signaling
Akshata PrabhuAbout a lost project,… reborn
My recent works explore anthropomorphism in vegetalia. These days, I have been busy working on ‘Dendruh’; a world in making where the genes of humans and plants combine to form surreal, botanical, anthropomorphic and ethereal beings, some of which have roots that float above the ground, gliding over and carrying a piece of earth along with them wherever they thrive. This project is slowly blooming at my tiny space in Vasai. Read more on it [here.]
One of the last photos I took of the pieces before I lost themToday’s post is a remembrance of those preliminary and some near-perfect paper-relief pieces that I lost while commuting to my college in the early months of 2020. An incomplete series that experiments with nuances while perceiving facial assets (eyes, lips, nose, etc.) and plays with the structure/anatomy of a FACE in general. It explores the possibilities of facial perception in a textured, mundane and malleable material as paper pulp.
I was utterly devastated when I realised that I had forgotten them on the luggage rack of the train’s coach. I was supposed to present them to my class teacher as part of my work.
And after a few years of working across a few fields and my own little ventures, I quietly set out to bring them back and tread through more new versions that delve into this sentiment.
The Main Form and its origin…
Pareidolic persona detailVaried Personas, sugar lift & aquatint etching, 2020 SFE-13 Through Time, 2020The form from left was the preliminary piece that represent a concept of multifacetedness of our perception and as a result our existence. I happened to use the same form in my later works as well and even in my photographic explorations in Self-Face Experiements.
About Multifacetedness in general
In these works, I delve more deeply into the experience of being multifaceted. I believe every individual owns infinitely possible behaviours/attitudes that they use towards each circumstance in life. We all are born multifaceted, but throughout the tides of life and the societal influences, we tend to stick to a behaviour pattern that ‘suits’ our ‘personality’ or our ‘imaginery ideal selves’. I have observed that people instinctively ‘choose’ to react to a situation only in a certain way that feels comfortable and bond with that attitude, calling it ‘their own’, without giving it another thought of how fragile our personalities usually are. That could sort of hinder the brain’s neuroplasticity.
I believe Multifacetedness is a blessing in disguise. It helps us adapt through tight situations and tough decisions in life. And that’s what I try to emphasize through this form. I attempt to paint a mythical being that is lucid, fluid and ambiguous. And through ambiguity, I touch upon the Pareidolic phenonmenon.
‘The Sensory Juxtapose‘ revamp
Anyway, after almost three years or so, I finally commenced working on the incomplete series. The pieces uphold the theme of perceiving facial assets and attempt to play with the same. Have a look into one of my ongoing series – Sensory Juxtapose
Back to Home #ambiguity #art #artist #Experience #faces #lifePatterns #multifaceted #paperMache #paperPulp #pareidolia #Poetry #psychology #reflections #senses #vibes #Visuals
Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈#Ambiguity has driven me. I have hated it. That is the reason that I know anything. I want #clarity. But if I want the whole factory and not just the watchman's job, I have to be bold and claim it and say that mother fucker is mine. Somehow. And just let the ambiguity flood in. Means new road.🔦🔦🔦
Doug BelshawHere's a pattern I see regularly:
1. Org decides something needs doing (e.g. "digital transformation")
2. Someone at org produces AI-assisted brief. They understand some, but not all, of the words.
3. Proposals come in with cookie-cutter approaches, shiny roadmaps, and big promises.
4. The work starts. It turns out nobody really knew what was going on.
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n. The opposite of "profit"
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So how about we do things differently, eh?
https://blog.dougbelshaw.com/certainty-theatre/
#DigitalTransformation #Consulting #SystemsThinking #Ambiguity
Choosing partnership over "certainty theatre"
In warfare, when you know more than your enemy, it's called information asymmetry. The idea is that you want to have a tactical advantage over your adversary so that you can defeat them. I would hope that an agency-client relationship is fundamentally different to this.
Dan Ingvarsson
Andrew ShieldsJosiah Bounderby, "the Bully of humility” in Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854). #111Words #CharlesDickens #HardTimes #JosiahBounderby #Bully #Humility #Novel #Fiction #Interpretation #Ambiguity https://111-words.ghost.io/josiah-bounderby-the-bully-of-humility-in-charles-dickenss-hard-times-1854/
Josiah Bounderby, "the Bully of humility” in Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854)
In Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854), the banker Josiah Bounderby is dubbed "the Bully of humility" (the phraseseems to permeate the book but only comes up three times). I had always read this as referring to how Bounderby bullies others with his humble origins, and in a discussion on the
“It was not a story to pass on”: An ambiguous sentence at the end of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” (1987). #111Words #ToniMorrison #Beloved #AnitaDurkin #Emphasis #Ambiguity #Paradox #Pronunciation #Literature #Fiction #Novels https://111-words.ghost.io/it-was-not-a-story-to-pass-on-an-ambiguous-sentence-at-the-end-of-toni-morrisons-beloved-1987/
“It was not a story to pass on”: An ambiguous sentence at the end of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” (1987)
In the last section of Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved" (1987), a sentence is introduced, repeated ("It was not a story to pass on") and then varied ("This is not a story to pass on"). I have always read this as a parodoxical call to not retell the story that has
Ms. Que BanhI do not do well with #ambiguity. Get to the fucking point. Tell me, exactly what you're thinking or feeling because I do not know & am not egotistical enough to say what you feel/think, when I'm not the ambiguous player.