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THE THREE DESIGN TRIUMVIRATES
TRUTH - SCIENCE - INFORMATION
BEAUTY - ART - LIGHT
GOODNESS - PHILOSOPHY - ENERGY
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a little self enquiry:
Who are/were the relatives that bring structure to your own personal triumvirate? Who are/were the three women and three men that had the greatest influence on you? What impressed you most about them in reference to their relationship with you and others? How do you feel about them now in comparison to the past? What made/makes them so important and influential in your Life with the knowledge and understanding that all things change?
Fully apply the basic design principle of asking yourself the questions who, what, where, when, why and how? Observe, distinguish and determine.
The design triad (art/science/philosophy) creates an alchemical mix unique to consciousness.
Be assured you will not discover all the answers to your inquiries here. Continue to investigate into your role as an observer, participator and creator in a design of your own making. Be aware of the by-products and outcomes that surround your every choice and decision.
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Why our brains prefer symbols to words
Ryan Jones, University of Waterloo
"Summary: Research reveals symbols are more memorable than words. This novel study dives into our brain's knack for recalling graphic symbols and logos over their word counterparts. Symbols, offering visual anchors for abstract ideas, outperform words in memory tests. This understanding could revolutionize visual communication and design."
"When thinking about abstract concepts, like love, it can be difficult to visualize clearly. But with symbols, we can use a sort of image that represents the concept - like a heart for love - which makes the abstract idea more concrete and therefore easier to remember."
... symbols may be easier to remember because they are unique and tend to represent a single concept, whereas words can have multiple meanings. Consider the play symbol [>]."
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Feeling is a constant and a priori in reference to human consciousness. We enter and exit the realm of our own series of events and experiences (3d spacetime) in reference to a pattern of knowing/feeling, i.e. awareness.
"In all studies, the researchers found that participants were able to memorize symbols better than words with the same meaning."
As knowing, feeling and awarenesses assemble and amass, greater and greater systems and structures emerge and patterns change in reference to the context in which they are observed and encountered. The more conscious the more complex, diversified and adaptable the system required to function to the circumstances/situation. In reference to time, feelings can be experienced in both time and timelessness (dreaming).
Any increase in consciousness is due directly with an increase in awareness. At times and in certain 'spaces', awareness can take a "quantum leap" by means of designs in the form of a specific system of symbols, i.e. language, communication and exercise.
Example: A musician practices over time to eventually become a virtuoso by accumulating a wide variety of experiences through awarenesses not all entirely musical.
These links (designs) will reach far beyond the norm and are typically self motivated and driven.
There is a reason why many civilizations and cultures honor their elders. Those who harbor certain religious beliefs might describe these experiences as miraculous or angelic, others synchronistic (Jung), or synergetic (Fuller). All such awarenesses are agencies of a quantum field of virtual potential and probability (QFVPP).
Design makes the symbolic connection - that's its' purpose by whatever means.
A designer is more than a perceiver. He/she/we are creative observers.
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"Symbols might be more easily remembered because they give concrete visuals to abstract ideas," said Brady Roberts, lead author and PhD candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Design can be measured both directly and indirectly. All bridges are crossed symbolically.
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OUTPUT
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All things contribute to a form of collective formlessness, i.e. consciousness. AI is merely an interpretive extension of the same.
AI is a mental extension of human consciousness, i.e. a faux expression of the human experience. AI is not without constraints or parameters. All things change in reference to the context in which they are observed.
faux: made in imitation, artificial, not genuine, fake or false.
Linking data into meaningful and purposeful patterns of EIM is the responsibility of a designer.
AI does not feel, humans do. Symbolic portals act as gatekeepers and checkpoints, identifying the contrasts between knowing, feeling and emotion.
An observer tenders a unique type of grounding in the midst of an ever changing context.
AI should be measured, evaluated and attended to by how it exercises its 'sense of agency'.
Consciousness is measured within the principles of sharing, forgiveness, integrity, compassion, charity, trustworthiness, benevolence, joy and love. By exercising and experiencing these patterns of awareness, consciousness becomes more richly felt, designed and reconfigured.
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Even that which doesn't appear mindful participates in a greater 'mindfulness', i.e. Intelligence.
Consciousness vibrates at frequencies that harbor both greater and lesser forms of Awareness.
In reference to human levels of awareness, some agents find it difficult and/or impossible to resonate coherently with others. There is a meaning in support of every purpose and a purpose in support of every meaning.
All forms of consciousness function within parameters that similarly identify and determine their range of vibratatory influence.
All systems of energy in motion (EIM) are patterned, multidimensional and in reference to their contextual network, categorized in the form of a macro and/or micro agency.
Intelligence (mind) permeates all that is. Spirit embraces it.
When conscious, all things have a meaning and a purpose.
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Design is measured as a factor of time. The wider the scope of awareness the greater the level of consciousness. This spectrum of awareness determines the parameters of less passage, and it is within this field of awareness that an observer might best retain balance and harmony while functioning within its' contextual constraints.
Spacetime exists within these same parameters/constraints. Together they invite and create the binary impressions necessary for an expansion of the creative process. In this manner, spacetime will create its own series of frameworks in response to the context of the observer. In this manner, that which is being observed can be easily categorized into memorable blocks/patterns of energy in motion, which when appropriately designed, contribute to the consciousness of the observer’s “beingness”.
Certain levels that occupy and create these “systems and networks” offer the observer the context and opportunity to determine/choose the next step in their design journey. Each step (symbolic block of experience/memory) points to the next, which together with other patterns of energy in motion, either connect or stand down.
stand down: no longer to be linked or connected in any particular micro-moment or particular space, remains available to respond and create any new situation requiring re-alignment, re-patterning and/or restructuring, a position taken for purposes of present or future expansion/contraction in spacetime by referencing a new design experience harbored in a new and different context … very neurological by proxy.
The ability to perceive reality feels to be “somewhat measurable”. Dualism tends to view reality within a material, linear and categorical context. The quantum field of virtual potential and probability (QFVPP) tends to view reality in a virtual, conceptual, aetheric and metaphysical manner where all things are “somewhat immeasurable” ( ~, ∞, 𝝅 )
Design consciousness is a symbolic facilitator made apparent within the turbulent context of change, i.e. energy in motion. Design consciousness symbolically supports, describes and defines the transition and transformation of Light. It is upon this premise that design is also measured.
These measurements can reach beyond the senses and are, at times, both timeless and spaceless. This is what exercising a design consciousness implies and what a designer is inclined to do.
We all create and implement our own design language (system of symbolic thinking and feeling) in order to exercise and support us in the creation and observation of “reality”. This language has few words, is intuitive, imaginative and designed to bring greater meaning and purpose to Life. This language is hidden, greatly felt and less understood.
"Art is just as much about revealing the essential as science is. You might even say that the making of art comes before science in reaching down to our very roots — those deep philosophical underpinnings that allow human beings the ability to unveil hidden truths.
By this, I mean the simple fact that we emerge into the world as part of a community of other language users from whom we are given the shape of our world of experience.
“To say that art and life are entangled is to propose not only that we make art out of life — that life supplies art’s raw materials — but further that art then works those materials over and changes them. Art makes life new”
Awareness brings forward a "sense of consciousness" by fostering correspondences and fusing the concepts of meaning and purpose. Metaphysical in content and context, quantum, fractal and holographic in representation, all forms of energy/Life are revealed and made apparent by means of Design. Design is lovingly veiled in all that can be seen, known, measured and/or felt. (07.09.2023)
Design describes a metaphysical and multidimensional process. The design process is dependent upon knowledge, understanding, intention, intuition, imagination and awareness. Design creates a network of energy in motion (EIM) between fields/states/points/agents and patterns of awareness. Design creates a virtual, symbiotic and metaphoric lattice between consciousness, the subconscious and the unconscious, the tangible and the intangible, the known and the unknown, the seen and the unseen. All forms of energy in motion are based upon principles of meaning and purpose both felt and understood. (01.13.2023)
Be assured that you will not discover all the answers to your inquiries here. Continue to investigate into your role as an observer, participant and creator in a design of your own making. Be aware of the by-products and outcomes that surround your every choice and decision.
Born and raised in Chicago, Ill. I received my BFA and MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Professor Emeritus Columbus College of Art and Design. I have taught, lectured and written about
design and the design process throughout my tenure as Dean of Industrial and Interior Design. My interests lie in demonstrating design as fundamental to consciousness, archetypal in context and the underlying language of change and transformation.
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