The Rest of You
Week 1:
- 12:30-1:15 Introductions
- 1:15-1:30 Structure of the Class
- 1:30-1:45 Examples
- 2:00-3:00 Illusions
What is the Rest of You
The Rest of You
Week 1:
- 12:30-1:15 Introductions
- 1:15-1:30 What is.
- 1:30-1:45 Example Projects
- 1:15-1:30 Structure of the Class
- 2:00-3:00 Illusions
What is the Rest of You
- John Lennon said Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. *We all are quite busy but that part of your gets a lot of attention.
- We are concerned with the rest of you,
- the unintentional
- unconscious
- subconscious
- preconscious
- the right side of your brain
- your slips and your gifts
- your sleep
- your present moment
- your buttocks.
- These are often the parts of your experience that are quieter or harder to see
- but they are the iceberg, not the tip.
- They are more important parts of you and more enjoyable. We will learn that decisions are made by the rest of you. Most of your enjoyable pastimes, such as sports, music, art, sex ask that you get the busy part out of the way and let the rest of you work.
The picture we have of ourselves is usually incomplete. Not surprisingly the media tools we create conform to that impoverished picture. This class is an attempt to use new media to give visibility and expression to the rest of you. We will spend this first class trying to establish that there is a rest of you.
Illusion
- If the rest of you is so great why do we ignore it. Well we live in illusion.
- Many illusions are excellent hacks for survival on an evolutionary level.
- Example field of view
- But perhaps some of our new technologies can give us prothesis to ease some of the engineering trade offs made by evolution.
- Today in class I would like to talk about some of these illusions.
- Sounds like Buddhist monk so even though I probably believe that the distinction between people is illusary and this class should be called the rest of it.
- I am talking about sciencfically established illusions. In fact has been a long line of debunking of illusions that firmly place your self in less and less central light (copernicus, evolution). Diminish humans
- Sensual Illusions in some ways easier to test than conceptual illusions which rely on conscious reporting.
Visual
Visual Intelligence Hoffman
Phantoms in the Brain Ramachandran
Congnitive
Blink Gladwell
Fooled by Randomness Taleb
Social
Prsentation of Self in Everyday Life Goffman
Media Equation Reeves and Nass
Temporal
Stumbling on Happiness Gilbert
Power of Now Tolle
Consciousness
The Origins of Conciousness Jaynes
User Illusion Norretranders
Illusion of Free Will
Moral Animal Wright
The Selfish Gene Dawkins
The Meme Machine BlackWell
Illusion of Real World
The Self-Aware Universe Goswami
- The main illusion to attack is the illusion of consciousness. I want to look below the surface. One way is to see your reactions to things. On the output side you can see how your body reacts compared to how your consciousness reacts. On the input side you can see what actually went including subliminally and what you act on.
- Read one of these books or review some research and post a blog entry about the illusion you live under. Also think about what part of the autonomic nervous system you would like to sense and begin gathering resources.
- Spend a few weeks trying to get a picture of the rest of you. I have ambitions that someone in this class will inadvertantly get a picture of God sneaking around in the background. Conclusively rooving or disprooving the existance of God is the final requirement for this class.
- Show some tech
- Assignment: Blog a post about Illusion
Week 2: Sense Your Body
Week 3: Logging and Graphing
- Pull data from Arduino to Processing
- Graphing Data in Processing
Week 4: Dan: Sense the World
- Light,Gravity,Sound,Image
- What was your day really like?
Week 5: Mobile Logging
- CellPhone as Logger
- SD card as Logger
Week 6: Watch Your Language
- Keylogging
- Packet Sniffing
- Mouse Movement
Week 7; Analysis
- Word Counting
- Standard Deviation
Week 8: Midterm Show
Week 9: Collective Unconscious / Final Project Proposals
Week 10: Eyes / Final Project Proposals
Week 11: Sleep / Final Project Proposals
Week 12 Workshop
Week 13 Workshop
Week 14 Presentations
