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Listen to what you see ‘ Look at what you hear.

The Process of Viewing.

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When you look at an object or a scene, 2 modes of operations start.

The information received is being processed for survival and adaptation first and then for meaning (Semiotics).

1. Mode 1: I observe a target view.

2. Mode 2 : The target observes me.

3. When the view is a new environment, then the observer will processes a Darwinian mind cycle for survival and 4. When the view is another person, then a special process starts.

unconsciously adaptation.

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Mode 1: I look (gaze) at the object.

1.1. Unconsciously, I check the Evolutionary Trajectory for safety.

1.2. I start t

1.3 I Prepare for action.

1.2 . I start to analysis in search for meaning and sense giving in a Semiotic process.

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Mode 2: I am being observed by the view.

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Some elements will pop up with a personal as if the view reads my inner thoughts and

message, triggers me to take action.

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Mode 1: I look (gaze) at the object.

1.1. Unconsciously, I check the Evolutionary Trajectory for safety.

1.2. I start t

1.3 I Prepare for action.

1.2 . I start to analysis in search for meaning and sense giving in a Semiotic process.

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The book of nature is written with characters different from our alphabet.

These characters are triangles, squares, circles, spheres, pyramids, cones and other geometric figures.

Gallileo There

There are universal shapes to which everyone is subconsciously conditioned and to which they can respond if their respond conscious control does not shut them off.

Henri Moore

exteriorisation of an internal meaning.

Shape is an Wassily Kandinsky

brain reads a view is by decoding colours, e s and compositions in search and meaning.

The way our shapes, l i n for feeling

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the reading of Shapes : examples from Fashion.

The shapes are : the female triangle, the male active triangle and the power base of the pentangle.

I I In the example of elegance is the female triangle dominating together with the power pentangle.

When the main purpose is seduction by elegance the S curve will dominate together with the male triangle.

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The reading of Compositions: examples from Fashion.

This example combines Shape and Proportions.

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How Lines create messages.

When looking at a picture, we unconsciously absorb the canvas of the lines which create the composition.

The artist always start with a sketch balancing the canvas.

Some compositions can be very complex :

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Colours play a special role in the creation of sentiment and meaning.

Cold

Warm

Example of social connotation

Relationship with Shapes

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Mode 2: I am being observed by the view.

The canvas contains all possible lines, shapes, colours, figures and compositions that ever have been created or will be created by man or man/machine. The canvas asks the artist: which one do you want to show?

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Mode 1: I look (gaze) at the object.

Mode 2: I am being observed by the view.

A particular view can trigger our unconscious to release inner messages.

This is particular true in the process of viewing abstract art and bi-stable pictures.

bomb & BLUFF

Figure & Ground

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What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

Modigliani.

The person who views a piece of art is part of the process

of art creation.

The unconscious works much faster than what we can communicate in conscious mode.

CĂŠzanne .

I am only the conscious part of the landscape which I

paint.

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What we see is not necessarily what ‘ is. ’. th There is the painted landscape on the glass and the real landscape outside.

Renée Magritte

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What you see can hold a message.

This picture asks to look closer and find the never touch the inner truth.

Julia Orell The Window

Leaves, flowers and a butterfly can be interpreted as a young lady.

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message “ - that you will

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Your interpretations are BIASED !

There exist 19 kinds of Social Biases.

8 types of Memory failures can bias your interpretation..

The Decision Making process can fail according 42 causes..

There are 35 cases of Probability / Belief biases possible.

Ref: http://www.scribd.com/doc/30548590/Cognitive-Biases-A-Visual-Study-Guide

“All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.�

Friedrich Nietzsche.

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You are your

BIAS Because you act accordingly .

You are what you DO.

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clear your

BIA S

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See yourself.

Start Gazing into NOTHINGNESS.

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Start by creating

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l e

Time.

and begin your first dialogue with NOTHINGNESS.

Take a blank large white paper and gaze at it. Idle your mind. you.

Do the same with a black paper.

Let –white talk to

Darkness there was: at first concealed in darkness;

this ALL was indiscriminate Chaos. All that existed, then was

void and formless.

By the great Power of Warmth was born that Unit.

Thereafter rose DESIRE in the beginning.

Desire the Personal seed and germ of Spirit.

Darkness exists because of Light.

Light exists because of Darkness.

m.c.Escher

White noise

Pink noise

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You have seen Rorscharch pictures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rorschach_blot.

At each picture that you view, you cannot keep your mind empty: you search for a meaning of what this picture might represent.

In Nature we also can observe shapes that resemble known things and here you tend to give a personal meaning. Many special shapes have become in this way a relic for the people.

The step to calligraphy where ‘feeling’ and ‘shape’ create the inner meaning.

Buddha

Man

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The Gaze into NOTHINGNESS learns that EMPTINESS wants to speak and reveal.

Something wants to escape from the darkness which only can happen

because of light.

The Message contains everything.

We pick that part which provides a MEANING to us. Most of the time we stick to the first revelation and neglect or suppress the other messages.

You can practise in perceiving more than one message.

Bi-stable pictures will help.

Next is such an example.

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These are bi-stable pictures that can have different interpretations.

It can be an old lady witch, or a young girl , or the same female person at a different age.

In the seminars of InfoGraphicMentors a series of exercises are Why do people stick to one interpretation out of the multiple possibilities? programmed to enhance your skills in reading double and multiple messages

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Perception is a chaotic process in search of a stable meaning.

The perception is an iterative process until a stable mental picture has been reached, or until a mental compromise for relevance is achieved.

The viewer differentiates (ask for details) and integrates the inputs ( tries to make sense of the inputs). This goes on till a stable view of the view is reached.

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The chaotic cycle within Perceptions follows an evolutionary path. This is explained in another presentation of InfoGraphicMentors. http://www.slideshare.net/RonnyVerlet/semiotics-design-for-appeal

Semiotics , the language of the fittest for survival.

Survival by APPEAL . the lessons in

Darwinian DESIGN.

recommended reading: http://www.scribd.com/doc/217714528/Semiotics-Signs-of-Life-Part-2

by Romy Louise Liz

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An example of how we come to a stable view follows next.

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To perceive the World is to co-perceive oneself. Differentiation.

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To perceive the World is to co-perceive oneself. Differentiation – Integration

We create a version of the view that fits best our own Self.

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When we look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche.

The first teaching is to learn about what the picture, the view, the scene, the object wants to tell you.

This is the same as when your body wants to tell you what’s physically is going wrong with you; or when in your garden the herb that might be beneficiary for your health will try to catch your attention.

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Next is to learn to practise the STATE OF NO MIND.

How this works: When you think about something; try to replace that thinking into a mode of thought making the thinking.

Try not to think but permit that Thought thinks you.

How to practise in real?

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Practise the STATE OF NO MIND

- A first way is when you perform an activity like walking, biking,

swimming...,

stop your thinking about the trajectory or whatever other issue linked to the activity.

Concentrate on the activity itself....let the walking walk, the bicycle bike, the water swim my body.

- When you do intellectual labour do not search for truth but for the different visions and opinions. Refuse to make preferences.

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Practise the STATE OF NO MIND

- Look in the multiplicity of things what unite them and repress the dualistic categorisation.

Map the commonalities and unifying factors and elements.

- Practise to find the words that relate to facts. Eliminate the words and rhetorically related to creation of sentiment and passions.

Listen to the wise: Nothing is more difficult than to be simple. Huxley

When Mind in itself is not liberated from the false, There is nothing true ; nowhere is the True to be found.

Hui Neng

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To perceive the World is to co-perceive oneself.

The same principles are valid for the Audible.

Here stand SILENCE and SOUND for Darkness and Light.

“ We cannot exploit Silence, is Silence that exploits us �.

Max Piccard: Le Monde du Silence.

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Exercise by Audible experience.

When you listen to music you hear several phenomenon simultaneous. Try to split a set of these components like the instruments, rhythms, etc. You reconstruct the

separated audible parcels in buckets

and continue to listen and repeat the process in a continuous way.

Another exercise is to repeat and to reconstruct what happened during the day in chronologic sequence followed by the buckets weighted along a measure of importance, impact, emotional etc.

Your day experience is talking to you.

Make it a ritual habit. RITUAL REPETITIVE Processes are a powerful source for releasing the unconscious messages.

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Audio spectrum

reconstruction of the sound buckets.

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In order to train your sense for no-mind you can practise the same exercise in space-time mode.

Before you sleep just practise to recall all the different steps you undertook during the day.

In the pre-sleep/dream mode the actions of the day are more easily to be filtered from all attached emotions... Or at least this is the objective to regard everything as a mechanical process which pops up in the real live drive.

Take this step as a habit and you will see how more rational and undetached you will become and leave room to instinct and the work of the unconscious.

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You are your

BIAS Now that you have listened to Nothingness, take time to work on you BIAS-ness.

We fiercely defend our truth during the day...but at night we accept any lie in our dreams; we even enjoy those lies.

The two biggest secrets that remain sealed for mankind are: DEATH and DREAMS.

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BIAS Our DREAMS are a link to the Nothingness.

Dreams come to us, we cannot demand a dream to appear.

Dreams contain fragments from everything : any place and any time.

You never measure or calculate in a dream.

In dreams there is no logic or rationality, that’s why dreams and language have lot’s in common like the hidden messages.

have you ever questioned what the meaning is of the words: a thing, the message, it is dark, the thing itself, a mere question... these simple words refer to the source if nothingness; as if we cannot get any message without referring to that mysterious source.

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Nothingness is the paradise where we were expelled from. The word ‘remember’ is re-member; to become again a member of the Everything present in Nothing. In French is remember ‘rappeler’, translated re-appeal or call us back.

By listening to Silence, by perceiving Darkness you will make your first steps to rediscover your other SELF and rebalance Reality, overcome your own Bias and make time for

PLAY

and

UNLEARN.

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UNLEARN ...

KNOWING.

Visionary starts with

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In the seminars of InfoGraphicMentors a special session is built on Unlearning. In view of the complexity of modern life world contains this part somewhat technical topics. The target is to bring back complexity to Simplicity.

What we know about a THING is embedded in different notions.

- a name.

- A set of RELATIONS. - There is a CONCEPTUAL embedment.

- There are INFLUENCES of other Domains.

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KNOWING a THING .

.A

THING get’s the right to exist by a Name.

exercise

Set the thing free from its name .

. A Name does not refers to a -unique Idea.

exercise

Give names to a thing that has no name.

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KNOWING a THING .

A Thing is embedded in a CONCEPT. concept =

con + cept = create together = integration of ideas

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KNOWING a THING .

- a name.

- A set of RELATIONS. - There is a CONCEPTUAL embedment.

- There are INFLUENCES of other Domains.

the main triggers to link to other domains are:

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Probability.

- Mutations.

- Discontinuity.

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In the process of un-learning Knowledge you have to position your current Mental State on the Evolutionary Path of Knowledge.

Different stages in the Evolutionary Path are: - a Will to Truth: e.g. The Bible, the Power of Discourse and Rhetoric, Quantification and Rationalisation.

- a Will to Message: decoding messages films, fairy tales.

Myths; Mathematical Models, Forecasting, MULTIMEDIA. - A Will to Meaning: Chaos Theory, System Complexity, LOVE. reference : Michel Foucault: L’ Archeologie du Savoir 2007.

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Summary Part 1: - Learn to view and double your vision (direct & indirect).

- Idle Play.

- Learn to unlearn and new learn.

- Put yourself on the evolutionary track.

Part 2 will focus on Quantum thinking, the Chaos Theory, System Complexities ( as our mental brain processes) and Semiotics. Insight in these subjects will open your mind for visionary skills.

This is a short version of the seminar presentations of 1nf0 Graphic Mentors.

1nf0 Graphic Mentors offer to work out dedicated Mentoring programs to enhance your Visionary Skills. infographicmentors@yahoo.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

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Discover also the other publications from Infographic-mentors: http://issuu.com/ronnyverlet/docs/237023118-signs-of-life-and-life-of and https://www.scribd.com/doc/239059959/Signs-of-Life-and-Life-of-Signs

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Discover also the other publications from Ronny Julius C Verlet

by Infographic-mentors:

see: issuu.com/ronnyverlet https://www.scribd.com/RonnyJuliusC http://www.slideshare.net/RonnyVerlet