I feel confident that there is a whole world (science, art,
mathematics, visualization, unknown) of the inner self most particularly the inner
voice. The World Knowledge Bank® currently has a call for knowledge
out on
What
is the nature of the "inner voice"? How is it possible to hear the
"inner voice"? What is the physics, psycho acoustics of the inner
voice? Can the inner voice be amplified? How?
The
question of the nature of the inner voice is both physical and metaphysical and
very old indeed. In the Upanishads the inner voice is described as the “ear
of the ear” and each one of us has one…maybe many species’
individuals have one. I have a number of ideas and systems on this
subject myself and want to encourage this conversation. I think the philosopher
Suzanne K. Langer and her works Feeling and Form and Mind” an Essay on
Human Feeling are good groundings and starting points for this discussion. Among
her insights is that, I am paraphrasing, music in general gives or is a form of
time. A particular musical composition tells us, informs us as to what time
feels like. Other art forms tells us other things, such as visual art tells us
how space feels. This is a revolutionary way to look at the world and brings
the ambient and feeling world within our human capacity to understand and discuss.
My take on Langer is to see that if there many ways to feel time and space,
there are many kinds of sciences, many kinds of mathematics. Rather than
learning a pedagogy of science our job is much more complex and rich, there is
a plurality of possible sciences emergent from human feeling (expressed through
art). I feel that we have seen over the last hundred years a slowing of
fundamental insights emerging from science. The voluminious literature focuses
on smaller and thinner nooks of (standard) science. The human spirit is often
confined and frustrated by minucia not able to explore freely and anew. So now
we have new dimensions emerging 3,4,15...? What? Isn’t every dimension
in a way a new science.
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