[Fis] Maxine

[Alex Hankey]

RE: Professor Maxine Streets-Johnstone's Summary

Since my own summary to be presented later in this Webinar will concern a
radically new theoretical information model of gestalt cognition, I am
curious to know if you regard conceptions of movements that are put into
action as 'gestalts' i.e. conceived and executed as wholes. It would seem
to follow from your discussion of movement in lines and curves, but you do
not say so explicitly.

>From my perspective as a former sports person who represented my college at
Cambridge in two sports, and led university teams at two more, I know I was
very aware of the need to play strokes at Tennis and Squash with a totally
different 'feeling' about the way strokes at different sports were
conceived and executed. i.e. Different strokes at different sports require
different 'classes of gestalt'.

Similarly when I watch Federer or Djokovic or any of the other greats in
Lawn Tennis execute their shots, I get the feeling that each shot is
conceived and executed as an integral whole, and not as a series of
digitized procedures. Otherwise it could not be an instantaneous response
to the opponent's challenge.

I know this is different from dance. But surely a Balanchine or Nureyev
conceived their movements as integral wholes before they executed them with
the kind of outstanding athleticism that made them such great partners and
performers.

In animals, this should also be the same. Watching monkeys leap around
dangerous walls of temples here in India, or documentaries of lemurs
bounding from tree to tree (or even from cactus to cactus) in Madagascar,
one feels that they could not execute each movement with such brilliance
and precision, were it not conceived as a whole - as a gestalt.

Should 'gestalt cognition' (and recognition) of incoming information, and
'gestalt conception' of outgoing information controlling actions, not be
regarded as fundamental to the Phenomenology of Life? Of how we all
consciously control our actions, and regulate them in detail?

-- 
Alex Hankey M.A. (Cantab.) PhD (M.I.T.)
Distinguished Professor of Yoga and Physical Science,
SVYASA, Eknath Bhavan, 19 Gavipuram Circle
Bangalore 560019, Karnataka, India
Mobile (Intn'l): +44 7710 534195
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2015 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics
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