entury and one of the greatest thinkers of all time. The dramatic rethinking that Relativity Theory impelled in our understanding of the physical world - and its continuing influence on intellectual theorizing in many aspects of science - was no less INTEGRAL ART than the sheer breadth of talent that Leonardo da Vinci displayed.What may need to be emphasised here is the vital part played by visual-spatial thinking in his formulation of theories and his radical solutions to problems.As a child, however, Einstein was far from being regarded as specially gifted and reports of his early life and education give several strong indications of dyslexia. Einstein's memory for words was poor and throughout his life he frequently misspelled names of places and people. He also continued to make errors of simple calculation, while being able “to handle deftly the most difficult tensor calculus” as Hoffmann stated. Obviously this did not endear him to his teachers in youth - yet as Thomas West has said - in time Einstein became teacher to all his professors, making the lectures he did not attend outdated and the books he did not study obsolete.
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our relationships with the plants and animals and all
the other elemental presences (soils, rainclouds, rivers...) who
support and nourish us? It can only be because somehow we're
oblivious to that direct, unmediated layer of carnal exchange which
is always already going on - because we're oblivious to the bodily
level of our existence. It is my body that steadily drinks of the
oxygen breathed out by all the green and growing plants, and
my body that breathes out the carbon dioxide these plants
steadily draw upon in order to photosynthesise and flourish. It is this body, this muscled flesh that rests in intimate relationship
with the tree-trunk I’m now sitting on. From walking barefoot in the
garden or wandering through all these arroyos, my toes are well
acquainted with the life and texture of the soil. But we don't live
our body's life anymore. We live a life of abstractions, of mental
cogitations massively influenced by all of the human-made
artefacts and signals that surround us. We're incessantly reflecting
off of our own reflections. We have been taught NOT to trust our
senses, and our direct sensory experience. The senses, which are
our most instinctive animal access to the world - our eyes, our ears,
our tongue, our nostrils - these magic organs open us directly onto
the more-than-human field! Yet we’ve been taught not to trust any
of these powers; we're told that the senses lie, we're taught in
school that the senses are deceptive.
David Abram during an interview with Derrick Jensen entitled ...
Alliance for Wild Ethics || The Perceptual Implications of GAIA
Never forgetting of course our species fascination with slowly falling snow and the recent Smithsonian article entitled...SNOWFLAKES MAY HAVE DIFFERENT DESIGNS, BUT THEY ALWAYS HAVE SIX SIDES which I posted here @ZAADZ.
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