Re: demo of rhythm insfruments

Hi Xin Wei, great. I can break things and provide insight (and call it research) =)

 
~Kristi


From: Xin Wei Sha <xinwei.sha@asu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 4:07 AM
To: Garrett Laroy Johnson <gljohns6@asu.edu>, "Gabriella Isaac (Student)" <Gabriella.Isaac@asu.edu>
Cc: Christopher Roberts <cmrober2@asu.edu>, Kristi Garboushian <Kristi.garboushian@asu.edu>, "Varsha Iyengar (Student)" <Varsha.Iyengar@asu.edu>, "synthesis-dev@googlegroups.com" <synthesis-dev@googlegroups.com>, "post@synthesis.posthaven.com" <post@synthesis.posthaven.com>
Subject: demo of rhythm insfruments

Hi Gabby and Garrett , Great — let’s see what you’ve got !

Let me know when you’re around separately or together.   Todd and I are looking forward to see this.  I’ll see if I can swing by before Thurs.


PS Kristi — please feel welcome to chat w faculty and grads affiliated with these core SC projects to get to know what’s happening — you can play with what’s built, and break them.  If you provide insight it’s called research.  :)

On Nov 16, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Garrett Laroy Johnson <gljohns6@asu.edu> wrote:


Hi Xin Wei,

Unfortunately both Gabby and I have class tomorrow at nine thirty AM, but we are both interested in demoing some of our ongoing rhythm work (gabby with footfall, me with speech) 
With you soon. We are aiming to have the rhythm station set up and demoing by Thursday, but will be in tomorrow and Wednesday as well if you fancy checking in sooner. 


Garrett Laroy Johnson 

On Nov 16, 2015, at 12:48, Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu> wrote:

Dear Tech Team + colleague faculty involved with Walton visit,


I could come to Stauffer at 9:30 tomorrow to check in Tech Team and faculty involved with the Walton visit.
I’d like to share and review the script that I’d like to supply the Dean for approval.

• Stauffer Flex spaces: DC Undergrad Diversity and creativity, refined by studio critique, scaled up
(Loren and David)
Student projects from studio courses
High school through professional post-grad

• Stauffer Lounge: Design for everyday life
Byron curation, overall works
it would be good to take some photos of this space working 
 for when I assemble the updated detailed script for Dean Tepper  tonite

• Matthews iStage: Fusion Art - Science
Chris Roberts overall curation, Pete Technical Direction
Art: Serra instruments sound and video (Todd, Julian)
Science: Experiential Climate Models (Josh, Connor, … )

Thanks all!
Xin Wei 

demo of rhythm insfruments

Hi Gabby and Garrett , Great — let’s see what you’ve got !

Let me know when you’re around separately or together.   Todd and I are looking forward to see this.  I’ll see if I can swing by before Thurs.


PS Kristi — please feel welcome to chat w faculty and grads affiliated with these core SC projects to get to know what’s happening — you can play with what’s built, and break them.  If you provide insight it’s called research.  :)

On Nov 16, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Garrett Laroy Johnson <gljohns6@asu.edu> wrote:


Hi Xin Wei,

Unfortunately both Gabby and I have class tomorrow at nine thirty AM, but we are both interested in demoing some of our ongoing rhythm work (gabby with footfall, me with speech) 
With you soon. We are aiming to have the rhythm station set up and demoing by Thursday, but will be in tomorrow and Wednesday as well if you fancy checking in sooner. 


Garrett Laroy Johnson 

On Nov 16, 2015, at 12:48, Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu> wrote:

Dear Tech Team + colleague faculty involved with Walton visit,


I could come to Stauffer at 9:30 tomorrow to check in Tech Team and faculty involved with the Walton visit.
I’d like to share and review the script that I’d like to supply the Dean for approval.

• Stauffer Flex spaces: DC Undergrad Diversity and creativity, refined by studio critique, scaled up
(Loren and David)
Student projects from studio courses
High school through professional post-grad

• Stauffer Lounge: Design for everyday life
Byron curation, overall works
it would be good to take some photos of this space working 
 for when I assemble the updated detailed script for Dean Tepper  tonite

• Matthews iStage: Fusion Art - Science
Chris Roberts overall curation, Pete Technical Direction
Art: Serra instruments sound and video (Todd, Julian)
Science: Experiential Climate Models (Josh, Connor, … )

Thanks all!
Xin Wei 

meaning, memory, G Longo on Zalamea

"Meaning derives, moreover, from the intentionality, even a pre-conscious one, that inheres in protensive gestures
…
a digital machine with a perfect memory cannot do mathematics, because it cannot constitute invariants and its associated transformation groups, because a perfect, non-protensive memory does not construct meaning
…
Only animal memory and its human meaning allow not only the construction of concepts and structures, but proof as well, as soon as the latter requires us to propose new concepts and structures, or the employment of ordering or invariance properties which go beyond the given formal system

p 18, Synthetic Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Conceptual analyses from a Grothendieckian Perspective.  Reflections on “Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics” by FERNANDO ZALAMEA,  by Giuseppe Longo

Re: Nov 2 Monday 9-10: pilot scenario brainstorming with the ECS responsive media environment

Hi Dehlia,

Thank you again for your participation and patience.

1. Agriculture
Potatoes in Greenland is very interesting. (Greenland reaps benefits of global warming: http://goo.gl/Z4bHT8)  "Every cloud has a silver lining."  The reason why I mentioned invention of the bicycle and the novel Frankenstein is to also show both bright side and dark side.  I didn't want our climate model to judge value.

2. Weather Prediction
Europeans in 1816 never knew of the explosion in Indonesia, but people now know what was happening.  I think different ranges of predictability may give a good reason why the three participants have different information and visual feedbacks.

3. Blind Men and an Elephant
Verbal and non verbal communication between the participants may be the key for developing effective collaboration.

  



4. Ghost in the Machine
I've also talked with Ed about the concept of 'ghost in the machine' (https://goo.gl/J6VGuF).  Mental activity carries on in parallel to physical action, but where their means of interaction are unknown or, at best, speculative.  I would like further discuss about this idea.

Please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.  See you at Synthesis Campfire.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
The connection is not that good so I won't talk much on Skype--but I want to add as a suggestion of doing something dealing with agriculture. E.g. 1816 (and the next couple of years) were years of famine, especially because of the loss of potatoes in northern europe. Now climate change is making it possible to grow potatoes in greenland. and there's a kind of pastoral idyll of climate change emerging there...

Another interesting comparison would be to explore how the possibilities of weather prediction have changed (dramatically) in the last two hundred years. We might construct a scenario with different ranges of predictability (within 1 day, a week, a few months, e.g.). How does one behave with different temporal horizons of expectation?

Both of these subjects also have serious economic implications-- futures markets on commodities, Pluvius weather insurance policies etc.

-Dehlia



On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Cynthia Selin <Cynthia.Selin@asu.edu> wrote:
I would like to join this but Monday I am leading a scenarios workshop on wastewater sensing and am not able to meet with you all. 



Cynthia Selin

Marie Curie Fellow- Energizing Futures/Technology and Innovation Management/ Technical University of Denmark 

Associate Fellow/ Saïd Business School/ University of Oxford 

Assistant Professor/ School of Sustainability & the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes/ Arizona State University


On 30 Oct 2015, at 12:01, Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu> wrote:

Dear Cooper, Dehlia, Cynthia, Brandon, Manjana, Cooper, Josh,

How about Monday 9 AM  Nov 2, Brickyard ?

Julian and Todd will be busy working on SERRA so can’t join us for this process, but can serve as background experts to our ECS team.

Re ECS,  let me include Connor Rawls, Josh Stark as media programmers and Dr Brandon Mechley as scientist  / acoustic ecology researcher who should be part of this design / make conversation with Cooper.

Everyone please read Cooper’s great set of notes.   I made some observations with Dehlia and we came up with some thoughts building on Cooper’s strong starting points.   Happy to share and continue on Monday

Fun fun fun!
Xin Wei




________________________________________________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei<http://asu.academia.edu/XinWeiSha> • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering<http://ame.asu.edu/> + Synthesis<http://synthesiscenter.net>
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab<http://topologicalmedialab.net/>
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:36 AM, Manjana Milkoreit <mmilkore@asu.edu<mailto:mmilkore@asu.edu>> wrote:

Thanks Cooper for nudging the project forward - this is an exciting first outline. I would not be able to join a Skype call today, but next week Monday and Friday could work for me.

The team might be interested in this European project: http://impressions-project.eu/news/12307_The%20Bond%20You%20Hold:%20A%20new%20theatre%20performance%20embodying%20the%20dynamic%20relation%20between%20climate%20and%20humans. I know one of the core team members, and we might be able to learn a couple of things from their experience.

Manjana

On Oct 29, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu<mailto:cooperyoo@asu.edu>> wrote:

Thanks Dehlia,

Skype meeting works for me.  I can do Friday 10/30 9:00am-1:00pm (5:00pm-9:00pm in Europe), Monday 11/02 9:00am-12:00pm (5:00pm-8:00pm Europe), or Friday 11/06 9:00am-1:00pm (5:00pm-9:00pm in Europe).

My skype id is cooper.yoo, and google hangout id is cooper.yoo@gmail.com<mailto:cooper.yoo@gmail.com>.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu<mailto:dhannah1@asu.edu>> wrote:
Hi Cooper,
I'm excited to read about your thoughts and I'd be glad to chat with you via skype if we can negotiate the 8 hour time difference. Tomorrow (Oct. 30th) and Mon/Friday next week are both possibilities for me in the late afternoon here. I'll reply with further comments tomorrow.

My skype handle is dehliahannah.

Best,
Dehlia


On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu<mailto:cooperyoo@asu.edu>> wrote:
Hi everyone,

Since our second scenario brainstorming meeting was canceled last week (Wednesday Oct. 21), I would like to ask for another meeting about ECS future plans.  Do you have any availability this Friday Oct. 30 or Monday Nov. 6 next week?

I've attached a document (YearWithoutWinter-Note-1027-Yoo.pdf) with some of my notes and thoughts about applying mixed reality to ECS responsive media environment.  I would like to further discuss this topic.  Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,

Unfortunately, I will be back to Tempe tomorrow (10/13 Tuesday) late afternoon.  I will try to follow up as soon as I get back.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Great that a bunch of us can make it. Can we confirm this meeting for tomorrow morning? Sylvia, is Xin Wei available?
Best,
Dehlia

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Christopher Roberts <Christopher.M.Roberts@asu.edu> wrote:
I don't have my calendar but I should be available then.



Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone


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From: Manjana Milkoreit <mmilkore@asu.edu>
Date: 10/9/2015 4:08 PM (GMT-07:00)
To: Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu>
Cc: Sylvia Arce <Sylvia.Arce@asu.edu>, Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu>, Dehlia Hannah <Dehlia.Hannah@asu.edu>, Manjana.Milkoreit@asu.edu, Edward Finn <edfinn@asu.edu>, Christopher Roberts <cmrober2@asu.edu>, Julian Stein <julian.stein@gmail.com>, "Connor Rawls (Student)" <Connor.Rawls@asu.edu>, "Sanghyun Yoo (Student)" <cooperyoo@asu.edu>, Todd Ingalls <Todd.Ingalls@asu.edu>, Jamie Winterton <Jamie.Winterton@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: pilot scenario brainstorming with the ECS responsive media environment

I can do Tuesday from 10:45am to 12:15pm.
Manjana

On Oct 9, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu> wrote:

Hi Everyone,
A very good time for Cynthia and me would be Tuesday morning (the 13th) between 10:30-12:15. Any luck?
Cheers,
Dehlia

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Cynthia Selin <Cynthia.Selin@asu.edu> wrote:
Absolutely.
Dehlia is here all next week and knows my openings. Let's make it happen.
Warmly
Cynthia

Cynthia Selin
Marie Curie Fellow- Energizing Futures/Technology and Innovation Management/ Technical University of Denmark
Associate Fellow/ Saïd Business School/ University of Oxford
Assistant Professor/ School of Sustainability & the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes/ Arizona State University

On 09 Oct 2015, at 04:54, Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu> wrote:

Hi Cynthia, Dehlia, Manjana, Ed, Chris,

Can we do some scenario brainstorming using the
experiential climate simulation (ECS) responsive media environment
while Dehlia is in town?

To do this well requires a sustained series of creative conversations
spaced closely enough so that we can work iteratively and produce something.

We need about a calendar month and 4 sessions at minimum to produce something we can look at and show.    Let’s can gather notes for grant proposals based on this pilot work.

So let’s plan these brainstorming sessions?

Better still, can we plan a series of scenario design and play through the Spring
so we can get traction and produce some durable outcomes?

Now that we’ve opened the doors to ideation and scenario design in the Experiential Climate Simulation, let’s play.

Let’s coordinate this so our SC creative team can work coherently along a reasonably bounded cone of possibilities :)

Cheers,
Xin Wei

cc Nadya Bliss and Diego Garcia-Setien

________________________________________________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei<http://asu.academia.edu/XinWeiSha> • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering<http://ame.asu.edu/> + Synthesis<http://synthesiscenter.net/>
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab<http://topologicalmedialab.net/>
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962<tel:650-815-9962>
_________________________________________________________________________________________________




--
Dehlia Hannah, Ph.D.

Research Curator, Synthesis Center
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Arts, Media and Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, School for the Future of Innovation and Society
Arizona State University

Guest Researcher, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Copenhagen University

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Research Curator, Synthesis Center
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Arts, Media and Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, School for the Future of Innovation and Society
Arizona State University

Guest Researcher, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Copenhagen University

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Arizona State University

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Research Curator, Synthesis Center
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Arts, Media and Engineering
Affiliated Faculty, School for the Future of Innovation and Society
Arizona State University

Guest Researcher, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, Copenhagen University

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Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Science and the Imagination
Arizona State University

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http://cooperyoo.com<http://cooperyoo.com/>


<YearWithoutWinter-Note-1027-Yoo.pdf>

Faloutsos, Mining Large Graphs, CIDSE Distinguished Lecture, Nov 6, 3:20 - 4:30

Faloutsos is one of the most prominent experts in graph analysis.  Anyone critically interested in network models of society, ecology, communication and control, or networks as a problematic* may want get an insider’s view.

Christos Faloutsos (CMU)
Mining Large Graphs
3 PM: Munchies & Mingling 
​ (Lobby Outside BYAC 110)​
3:20 - 4:30 PM:  
​Talk and QA​
 
Place: BYAC  
​110​
 




*   Patrice Maniglier, "What is a problematic? Bachelard and the concept of problematic,” Radical Philosophy 173 (May/Jun 2012) 


________________________________________________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Consortium for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

Brandon Mechley, lead on ECS+

Hi Chris, Brandon,

Brandon and I had a good talk. Chris R too. So we are on the same page :

Brandon Chris and I agree that it’s worth dedicating a couple months at high throttle to implement a more fully fleshed out weather model that is plugged into our Ozone media system.

Let’s call it ECS+

The aim of course will be carry out work through the academic year. ( Brandon and Chris can work out the nitty gritty for this term, and then Chris and I will work on the rest of the FY16. )

Goals :

(1) Get a richer weather model implemented

(2) Work with Connor and Josh (using overall system design by Julian and Xin Wei) to get i/o input : gesture / movement / MIRA from Connor, Julian output visual: Connor (Jitter), Datavis (Josh) output sound: Brandon (with Julian)

(3) Write up work as papers for publications

(4) Write up grants for external funding.

We’ll start by checking in M & Th’s @ Synthesis Campfires, 1:00

Given his PhD in relevant areas, extensive experience, and scientific + artistic interest, I’ve asked Brandon to take the project lead on this. Let’s enjoy the ride!

Xin Wei

responsive environments: from augmented performance to experimentally playing in res potentia; time operator for diffusion, Mike Epperson, Stu Kauffman

The state of the art in  augmented performances http://www.augmentedperformance.com/
shows that our research should no longer be just calligraphic image and gestural sound .
 
The real work to be done lies in analysis and  multivalent, continuous, palpable and impactful evolution of state in events co-structured by people, non-people and computational media.

We need to turn outward from conventional staged performance to fundamentally radical work.
for example, a non-didactic way to not represent, but play in res potentia

Xin Wei

On Oct 31, 2015, at 5:16 PM, Michael Epperson <epperson@csus.edu> wrote:

Hi Xin Wei,
 
That all sounds great!  I’m so glad you had a chance to engage with Stu. He’s a friend, and worked with me and Elias on our RR project. In fact, we were working on that at the same time he was working out the ‘res potentia / res extensa’ / poised realm ideas and relating these to Whitehead, so we had some great discussions. We’ve been talking about how/when to get together next to explore all this further, so this would be a great opportunity. (We have an edited volume coming out in March called  “Physics and Speculative Philosophy: Potentiality in Modern Science,” and Stu has a chapter in there.)
 
Anyway, lots of good synergy to explore here. The Synthesis Center info you sent is great—it’s exactly the kind of thing Elias and I want to explore re: representing and exemplifying QM in visual and other sensory ways that will inspire understanding (as opposed merely mystifying people, which is how QM is typically represented). 
 
I’m definitely game for a visit to ASU to discuss further, give a talk, etc., whatever you think is best to get the ball rolling. Let’s do it!
 
--Mike
 __________________________________________
Michael Epperson
Research Professor & Director
Center for Philosophy and the Natural Sciences
College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
California State University, Sacramento
 
 
Phone:  916-278-5135
Email:  epperson@csus.edu

From: Xin Wei Sha [mailto:Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 9:55 AM
Dear Mike and Elias, 
 
…

Actually I met and had delightful conversation with a biological scientist and complexity theorist  who may be an ally: Stu Kauffman.  
Stu’s come to appreciate Whitehead and Aristotle (perhaps analogous to Thom’s late reading of Aristotle’s Physis, after his Semiophysics )
See below my email to Synthesis re.  “Stuart Kauffman: Poised Realm, potential + actual, non-algorithmic thought”
We propose to meet in Santa Fe in the shadow of the Complexity institute …
 
Mike how about if I invite you down for a preliminary chat — we should; make a talk out of it —-
for that I propose engaging say a sister center like 
 
 
Stu introduced me to them
…
 
I attach Synthesis’ mission statement + 6 linked research projects to give an idea of what it’s about…
 
Regards,
Xin Wei
…
 
On Oct 27, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Michael Epperson <epperson@csus.edu> wrote:
 
Hi Xin Wei—
 
So sorry for the delay in responding to this—it caught me right as things were heating up for Fall semester, and you know how that goes... Great to hear from you! Thanks for forwarding the Antoniou/Prigogine paper. Very interesting.  I discussed it with Elias, and his take on it was very helpful. Maybe we can have a Skype session to discuss?
 
I had been meaning to reach out to you again to see what you thought of the SynAPS group idea we had been talking about, so your email got me thinking about it again. I did a small test run last semester at Berkeley with Henry Stapp, a neuroscientist named Stan Klein, and Menas Kafatos, who came up from Chapman. Along the way, there were some postdocs who joined in, etc., and overall it was a good experience. Elias came over from Budapest and joined us in presenting a few papers at the 2015 Whitehead conference in Claremont in June. (Speaking of which, Elias recently published a REALLY fascinating paper on global geometric phase phenomena wrt the concept of a quantum spectral beam: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amp/2015/124393/ )
 
Anyway, we’ve been thinking about ways that these structures might be represented and even exemplified via different visual media—something that we could collaborate with you on at the Synthesis Center. What we’re envisioning is a visualization project for quantum global geometric/topological phases—something that has never been done before. It would essentially be a visual representation of memories of quantum systems as topological structures—e.g., the quantum spectral beam. We think this kind of visualization would be both practically useful to researchers, heuristically useful in ‘showing’ the public what quantum histories ‘look like’, and (for the perfect trifecta) aesthetically inspiring as a new, and heretofore unseen example of Nature’s artistry. 
 
Attached is a short white paper that explains the idea. Elias and I would love to hear what you think!
 
Hope all’s well—
 
Mike


Begin forwarded message:
 
From: Xin Wei Sha <xinwei.sha@asu.edu>
Subject: Stuart Kauffman: Poised Realm, potential + actual, non-algorithmic thought
Date: October 23, 2015 at 9:22:00 AM MST
 
Finally had a chance to have long conversations with a remarkable scientist and bon vivant Stuart Kauffman, — one of the most prominent and acute anglo scientists coming around to process philosophy.  (Interesting parallel to Rene Thom discovering Aristotle’s Physics late in his life.)
  
 
 
Kauffman writes:
We have lived with scientific “monism” since Newton. Monism is the view, shared by virtually all scientists, that the world is made of one kind of “stuff,” the Actual world of matter and energy and with some question marks, space and time and information.
There are very good grounds to accept monism, and it has an ancient history. No less an ancient philosopher Empedocles said, “What is real in the universe is what is actual.”
Aristotle was less sure, he toyed with the idea that both the Actual and the Possible were “Real.” He called the Possible “potentia” and meant a variety of things by Potentia. And no less a mathematician and philosopher than Alfred North Whitehead, he of Principia Mathematica in the early 20th Century, written with Bertrand Russell, moved on to think of both Actuals and Possibles as “real”, or “ontologically real”, meaning two kinds of “stuff,” Actuals and Possibles in the universe.


I’m beginning, to my surprise to think Aristotle and Whitehead may have been right.
If so, the implications are radical.

 
 
In his article “ Free Will: There Are No Easy Answers”  Kauffman argues cogently from quantum mechanics that the human mind cannot be algorithmic:
 

Re: Nov 2 Monday 9-10: pilot scenario brainstorming with the ECS responsive media environment

Dear Xin Wei at al,

Monday 11/02 9:00AM at Brickyard room 395 works great for me.  I'll be ready for Skype with Dehlia as well.  Please let me know if any others are planning to join the meeting via Skype.  My Skype handle is cooper.yoo.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu> wrote:
Dear Cooper, Dehlia, Cynthia, Brandon, Manjana, Cooper, Josh, 

How about Monday 9 AM  Nov 2, Brickyard ?

Julian and Todd will be busy working on SERRA so can’t join us for this process, but can serve as background experts to our ECS team.   

Re ECS,  let me include Connor Rawls, Josh Stark as media programmers and Dr Brandon Mechley as scientist  / acoustic ecology researcher who should be part of this design / make conversation with Cooper.

Everyone please read Cooper’s great set of notes.   I made some observations with Dehlia and we came up with some thoughts building on Cooper’s strong starting points.   Happy to share and continue on Monday 

Fun fun fun!
Xin Wei




________________________________________________________________________________________
Sha Xin Wei • Professor and Director • School of Arts, Media and Engineering + Synthesis
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts + Fulton Schools of Engineering • ASU
Fellow: ASU-Santa Fe Center for Biosocial Complex Systems
Affiliate Professor: Future of Innovation in Society; Computer Science; English
Founding Director, Topological Media Lab
skype: shaxinwei • mobile: +1-650-815-9962
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:36 AM, Manjana Milkoreit <mmilkore@asu.edu> wrote:

Thanks Cooper for nudging the project forward - this is an exciting first outline. I would not be able to join a Skype call today, but next week Monday and Friday could work for me.

The team might be interested in this European project: http://impressions-project.eu/news/12307_The%20Bond%20You%20Hold:%20A%20new%20theatre%20performance%20embodying%20the%20dynamic%20relation%20between%20climate%20and%20humans. I know one of the core team members, and we might be able to learn a couple of things from their experience.

Manjana

On Oct 29, 2015, at 8:53 PM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu> wrote:

Thanks Dehlia,

Skype meeting works for me.  I can do Friday 10/30 9:00am-1:00pm (5:00pm-9:00pm in Europe), Monday 11/02 9:00am-12:00pm (5:00pm-8:00pm Europe), or Friday 11/06 9:00am-1:00pm (5:00pm-9:00pm in Europe).  

My skype id is cooper.yoo, and google hangout id is cooper.yoo@gmail.com.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi Cooper,
I'm excited to read about your thoughts and I'd be glad to chat with you via skype if we can negotiate the 8 hour time difference. Tomorrow (Oct. 30th) and Mon/Friday next week are both possibilities for me in the late afternoon here. I'll reply with further comments tomorrow.

My skype handle is dehliahannah.

Best,
Dehlia


On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi everyone,

Since our second scenario brainstorming meeting was canceled last week (Wednesday Oct. 21), I would like to ask for another meeting about ECS future plans.  Do you have any availability this Friday Oct. 30 or Monday Nov. 6 next week?

I've attached a document (YearWithoutWinter-Note-1027-Yoo.pdf) with some of my notes and thoughts about applying mixed reality to ECS responsive media environment.  I would like to further discuss this topic.  Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Cooper Sanghyun Yoo <cooperyoo@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi all,

Unfortunately, I will be back to Tempe tomorrow (10/13 Tuesday) late afternoon.  I will try to follow up as soon as I get back.

Much appreciated,
Cooper

On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Dehlia Hannah <dhannah1@asu.edu> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Great that a bunch of us can make it. Can we confirm this meeting for tomorrow morning? Sylvia, is Xin Wei available?
Best,
Dehlia

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Christopher Roberts <Christopher.M.Roberts@asu.edu> wrote:
I don't have my calendar but I should be available then.