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Post by Bobbie dog as guest on Mar 5, 2005 11:25:24 GMT 1
Tammet is calculating 377 multiplied by 795. Actually, he isn't "calculating": there is nothing conscious about what he is doing. He arrives at the answer instantly. Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder. "When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think." .. ... .. ... .. ... "I do love numbers," he says. "It isn't only an intellectual or aloof thing that I do. I really feel that there is an emotional attachment, a caring for numbers. I think this is a human thing - in the same way that a poet humanises a river or a tree through metaphor, my world gives me a sense of numbers as personal. It sounds silly, but numbers are my friends."
The whole article is wonderful Meph: even the way in which what normally fill front stage when we speak of the autistic, gets just brief and incidental mention. The autistic sees humanness mediated in metier beyond that which the orthodox collective assumes, and assumes as exclusive and sufficient. Tammet documents the radical degree to which we can operate "out of the box". The significance of autistic inclusion goes far beyond the autistic: and far beyond any matter of intellectual function; its deep significance lies in its revealing grounds for being, which are comprehensively sufficient to sustain human occurrence, and which have not been brought under collective mapping and control. The historical cost to the autistic has been great, but Tammet now reveals the richness of the autistic landscape. Its as it is, when we push the "savage" into wilderness: then we discover gold and oil; then we want to displace the savage from even these "Black Hills". Beyond the kindness which Tammet finds with some professorial types: and beyond what insight into Tammet, might bring to understanding the autistic generally; their lies a collective which has always given the autistic a hard time. That collective is unlikely to allow research to continue along lines which are sensitive to Tammet, and genuiinely and exclusively intend the good of the autistic. At some crucial point that collective will begin to set agenda in research, and from its own point of view, and to allow it to exploit for its own ends. The white American always wanted the Black Hills gold: our lust for oil distorts all our dealings and apperception of the Middle East and Islam; the miasma of exploitation will threaten what wonderful insight Tammet and this article bring to us.
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Post by Bobbie dog as guest on Mar 5, 2005 13:57:28 GMT 1
My exposure to epilepsy was at a Camphill (Steiner inspired) place: where my presence was through my tool and building skill.
I formed the understanding that an epileptic fit was a radical, systemic resolving: where variance was being shaken out of the system; essentially in autistic metier. Thought and feeling and whatever, that could not gain registration in collective metier, had to be resolved unilaterally in self-managed metier: where that metier stood at such distance from the collectively orthodox, with which the proto-epileptic identified; that the dynamic synthesis involved, when it hit existential plane, was in simple conflict with that synthesis sustaining normal identity. Call it having too much personal real estate that was dissociated: where as with huge estates as the Russian revolution approached, the managing intelligence just could not fluidly adapt; so you have a dynamic dysjunction. So, with Tammet: the epileptic fit is not necessarily to be seen as trauma, as misfunction, as dysfunction; it may also be seen as a system dynamically adjusting itself, autonomously. Where, in Tammets case, synesthesia then comes to mediate enhanced specific function. The crucial matter in relation to collective: is that orthodoxy will not allow wandering from the straight and narrow; the straights will have it that things continue as their orthodoxy insists, as its logic indicates, and to infiniity. The ferally autonomous subject just body swerves the epistemology and ontology of these straights: and like Eistein, finds that things bend and relativistically and quantumly (in packets, critical mass then whoosh); the ferally autonomous just do things, because they find that they can be done. The straight contention that such things are impossible, then seems a little quaint.
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Post by Meph on Mar 7, 2005 22:09:04 GMT 1
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Post by TheWeeMan on Mar 7, 2005 23:34:17 GMT 1
Cheers Meph. Here is an absolute belter, especially for those who work in the public sector! It's from a paper I'm reading entitled 'The Dicourses of Educational Management' by Professor Walter Humes of Glasgow University published in the Journal of Educational Enquiry, Vol 1, No. 1, 2000. 'Blase and Anderson (1995) show how a culture of ‘niceness’ leads to the ‘institutional silencing’ (p. 138) of criticism. Norms of propriety, courtesy and civility discourage the voicing of concerns which might be construed as a challenge to authority. Furthermore, if meaning is managed effectively, the majority of staff internalize the professional and organizational vocabulary through which work is defined by officialdom. Dissent is silenced by representing it as straying beyond the boundaries of acceptable professional discourse. Descriptions such as ‘troublemaker’, ‘negative’, ‘not a team player’ and ‘over the top’ are used to label those who refuse to play by the (linguistic) rules of the game. ‘The individual is marginalised and pathologised through labelling in order to protect the legitimacy of the institution’ (Blase & Anderson, 1995, p. 138).' Blase, J. & Anderson, G. (1995) The Micropolitics of Educational Leadership. London: Cassell. Full text available from smealsearch2.psu.edu/89599.html
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Post by Meph on Mar 9, 2005 1:22:43 GMT 1
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Post by Meph on Apr 13, 2005 0:14:34 GMT 1
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Post by amandaj on May 28, 2005 15:36:13 GMT 1
This is simular to Black Box, tens machines?. i have used one myself over a months period and it did improve my mood and my sleeping, it worked well for me, in fact i still use it now when i'm stressed and it stimulates certian nervr endings to release certian nauturals chemical. Panel OKs implant to fight depression SHANKAR VEDANTAM The Washington Post WASHINGTON - A surgical implant that stimulates the brain should get government approval to treat chronic depression, an expert panel of federal experts said Tuesday - marking the first time an implanted device has been recommended for the treatment of a psychiatric disorder. Using a technique known as vagus nerve stimulation, the device uses electrodes implanted in the neck to activate brain regions that are believed to regulate mood. The decision by an expert advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration came after a day of clashing scientific opinions about whether the data submitted by the manufacturer were adequate for approval. Proponents of the device prevailed, citing the desperate need of patients with chronic depression that does not respond to existing treatments. The verdict by the advisory panel came after FDA scientists and some panel members argued the data presented by the manufacturer to show the device works were not convincing. The agency is not required to follow the guidance of its advisory committee but usually does. The device has been used in the United States since 1997 to control epileptic seizures. The implant involves connecting a wire to the left vagus nerve in the side of the neck. Meph
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Post by amandaj on May 28, 2005 16:09:09 GMT 1
there is thing i was introduced to by a guy a know who does hypnotherapy and neuro lingul programming, please excuse spelling, it it called EFT, emotional feedom technique, if u serch for eft on the web u will find it. i have been on the reciving end of psychotherepy c.b.t being the best for me, E.F.T, didn't really give a go. i do have a book ok basic techniquess if any one is intrested?, i can dig it out and email?amandaj
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Post by tinchick on May 29, 2005 10:16:15 GMT 1
This is simular to Black Box, tens machines?. i have used one myself over a months period and it did improve my mood and my sleeping, it worked well for me, in fact i still use it now when i'm stressed and it stimulates certian nervr endings to release certian nauturals chemical. TENS machines are very effictive physical tools, (I used mine as pain relief when having the boys) I've never heard of them for use in mood enhancement .... though I guess any sort of latent physical therapy should improve your relaxation. Personally, I feel aromatherapy massage should be an obligation undertaken by every individual at basic cost, every d**n week....but that's only cos I want to get back to work hehe on a far less related note, how long will it be before we can patch into the web with an implant....save me typing a lot of rubbish if I can just link up and think it ;D ++edit++ Just foud an interesting article on Emotional Freedom Technicques in a Holland & Barrett magazine of all things it tells of the points onthe body that EFT can be used upon, and for more information it advises these two web sites www.emofree.com/and www.theeftcentre.com/
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Post by grace on Jun 28, 2006 19:30:52 GMT 1
This is a fantastic link, informative and sooooo interesting and no rubbish talk!!! Why did it stop?
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Post by moira on May 15, 2007 13:53:19 GMT 1
Amanda
I've never heard of the tens machine being used for depression.
I tried every drug under the sun and they made me worse.I even became addicted to venlafaxine.
I find counselling (therapy)is the best thing to treat it. Sometimes you get low moods in therapy as bottled up feelings from the past are trying to come up to the surface.
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