Background Information for Meru Foundation Lecture on 10 March 1999:
"Squaring
the Circle":
The One and the Many, Mind and
World
10th Anniversary Presentation of
Meru Foundation Findings and
Update
Discussing current status of the
work and future presentations
This lecture was held at the 3220 Gallery, 3220 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California on 10 March 1999 at 7:30 PM. Materials which were distributed at this lecture are reproduced here, along with links to other articles which provide background information on this subject.
Squaring the Circle
"Squaring
the Circle with Straight
Edge and Compass"
How the
Meru First Hand
model provides a philosophical
solution to this ancient
riddle.
(For clarity, this essau was
written in "press-release
style,"and is therefore
a bit overblown and
self-congratulatory, for which
we apologize.)
March 1999
Quotations
on Quadrature (Squaring the
Circle)
November
1999
Excerpts on the history of
quadrature, the quest to
"square the circle."
A
Purloined Letter: The
Evidence is Not Hidden ©1999
Stan Tenen
March 1999
Symmetry and Asymmetry
The contrast between complete symmetry and complete asymmetry is an important component to a discussion of philosophical solutions to "squaring the circle." The essays below present additional approaches.
The
Most Asymmetrical Spiral,
©1997 Stan Tenen
March 1999
For an early paper on
this subject, see:
The
Light in the Meeting Tent,
©1986 Stan Tenen
in the
Meru Archives
Excerpts
from Why People Gesture
When they Speak, ©1998
by Iverson and Goldin-Meadow
(Reprinted
with authors' permission.
Complete article published in
Nature, November 19, 1998)
Research shows that persons
blind from birth gesture while
speaking in the same manner
and using the same range of
gestures as do sighted persons
--
even when speaking with
another blind person.
Also highly
recommended:
The
Gestural Origins of
Language, ©1999 by Michael
Corballis
(as
published on the website of The
American Scientist, the
Sigma Xi Journal,
March-April 1999 issue)
This article presents a wide
range of research, including
that of Iverson and
Goldin-Meadow
on the subject of gesture and
language.
The
Role of the Hand in the
Evolution of Language, by
Prof. Ullin T. Place
(as
published on the website of Psycoloquy,
a refereed online journal,
January 2000 issue)
This important article by
Prof. Place was published
shortly after his death in
January 2000 in Psycoloquy,
an
online referred journal
sponsored by the American
Psychological
Association. The
following is an excerpt from
the Abstract:
"Section III sets out
eleven pieces of evidence
for the view that vocal
language must have been
preceded by an earlier
language of gesture.
Based on those principles
and evidence, Section IV
sets out seven proposed
stages in the process
whereby language evolved:
(1) the use of mimed
movement to indicate an
action to be performed, (2)
the development of
referential pointing which,
when combined with mimed
movement, leads to a
language of gesture, ..."
Additional articles on
the Relationship of Language
and Gesture are offered on
the Language
and Gesture Index on
the Meru Foundation website.
Contents of this
page are ©1999, 2000 Levanah
Tenen, and licensed to Meru
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