My (Re)cognition of Patterns
Some time ago I wrote,
Where we stand within a given situation determines our ability to react, to visualize, to cope with change, to recognize constraints and dependencies, and to alter the given course of that situation, while maintaining a balance that caters to the notion that the situation is one that recurs (meaning that the situation is not necessarily one that involves a problem to be solved). The ability to communicate and to transfer knowledge act as wrappers that cause the situation to take a new form.
Now that I've had some time to think about this, I'm not necessairly seeing it in a different light, but I feel that what I'm proposing here is how I see patterns. How I think of patterns coming to fruition and sustaining themselves may not be fully understood by others, but this is something that I need to investigate and build on. Maybe I need to explain this more. Yes? I wanted to write this here because I didn't want to lose it.
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I'm thinking about images, what they mean, how they come to mean and how that situates itself in how we socialize. How do we analyze or look differently at situations based on the social networks we create around them, based on the social networks that extend from them. What are the soical networks? How do we act as agents in carring out messages or making decisions based on how we see segements of information developing over a period of time? Who's involved in any part of the process? What decisions are they making? What kinds of contexts are we creating so that information flows, so that information is accurate, so that it gets where it needs to be, and once there can be utalized?
But where do I begin to sort through these questions? How do I attack this from a visual perspective, from a social perspective?
I don't want to think in terms of lines and connections and straight and narrow direction, but in terms of how "flow" contains (wraps it self around) natural or unconscious thought and mocwa the processing of information such that it becomes the context of what encapuslates a network of social interaction.
This is what grounds me as I think more about what I want to do with my life.