<div dir="ltr">RE: Professor Maxine Streets-Johnstone's Summary<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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'. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. <br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>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? </div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Alex Hankey M.A. (Cantab.) PhD</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"> (M.I.T.)<br>Distinguished Professor of Yoga and Physical Science,<br>
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