[MD] Social Intellectual

[Krimel]

>>> [Marsha]
>>>> How do patterns and objects differ?
>>> 
>>> Craig    
>>> Consider the "duck-rabbit figure".
>>> If it were the figure of an object, it could be only
>>> a duck or only a rabbit.  But if it is the figure of a pattern, 
>> it is both a duck pattern and also a rabbit pattern.   
>> 
>> [Marsha]
>> I know this type of example, but I am not sure of your point.  Can you
>> give an example that is not visual? 
>> 
>> [Krimel]
>> The blind monks and the elephant.
> 
> Marsha:
> Got one for the tongue?   
> 
> [Krimel]
> Pop rocks?

[Marsha]
Ahhhhhh, I just wondered if there were this type of example for 
all the senses:  sight, touch, taste, sound, smell.  

[Krimel]
We are talking about Gestalt shifts here. This is where we interpret our
experience as fitting into a particular conceptual schema, then see it
another way and suddenly it fits a different conceptual schema. We love
this. It is the basis of much humor and entertainment. 

"Take my wife..."

We see this to mean, "Take my wife, for example..."

"Please!"

Now we see the speaker isn't giving an example, he wants to be free of his
wife.

What makes this funny, is the shift from one conceptualization (read
"illusion") to another.

The last Star Wars movie was another entertaining example. I always saw the
Star War saga as a story of the Luke Skywalker's hero's journey. I
understood the story in that way for about 30 years. Then in the very last
movie I suddenly realized that the story was and had always been about the
Anakin Skywalker's hero's journey. Major Gestalt shift there.