Comments on: Multi-faceted or just two faced? http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/ Autonomous Education - Our way! Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:30:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Em http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-64 Thu, 31 May 2007 21:53:42 +0100 http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-64 Brilliant post. I don't actualy have anything contructive to say about it. Just that I enjoyed reading it :) Brilliant post. I don’t actualy have anything contructive to say about it. Just that I enjoyed reading it :)

]]> by: Alison http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-63 Thu, 31 May 2007 17:13:13 +0100 http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-63 I've read all the Dialogues from GEB, does that count? ;-) (My dad read us most of them tbh.) I've got that, Metamagical Themas (you know where the name comes from?), and two other Hofstadter books that I've never read on my shelf, lol! That idea of children being kind of solidified into their final persona too early is quite a striking one. There was a message on the EY list about how when children mix in several different groups, then they're not "stuck with one 'pecking order' every day" - same sort of thing. I’ve read all the Dialogues from GEB, does that count? ;-) (My dad read us most of them tbh.) I’ve got that, Metamagical Themas (you know where the name comes from?), and two other Hofstadter books that I’ve never read on my shelf, lol!

That idea of children being kind of solidified into their final persona too early is quite a striking one. There was a message on the EY list about how when children mix in several different groups, then they’re not “stuck with one ‘pecking order’ every day” - same sort of thing.

]]> by: DaddyBean http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-62 Wed, 30 May 2007 23:16:32 +0100 http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-62 Oh I remember trying to Goedel, Escher, Bach. I gave up as I was getting to addled. Oh I remember trying to Goedel, Escher, Bach. I gave up as I was getting to addled.

]]> by: Claire http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-61 Tue, 29 May 2007 15:37:08 +0100 http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-61 Great post Nic, really enjoyed reading that. Great post Nic, really enjoyed reading that.

]]> by: Bob http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-60 Tue, 29 May 2007 13:03:32 +0100 http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-60 Lovely post. I think it was one of the huge books by Douglas Hofstadter that I keep meaning to read more than 1/4 of that had a good explanation of this, and the phrase "le plus ca change, le plus c'est le meme chose" or "the more it changes, the samier it gets". He imagined a fly buzzing around a light bulb. You couldn't see the bulb, and could see the fly only every so often. To start off with the fly seems to move around randomly, but after a while you can work out where the bulb is from all the places you've seen the fly. All the different aspects of someone's personality may seem weird at first, but after a while you can usually build them up into a coherent whole. (The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter#Books" rel="nofollow">books</a> are Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, and Metamagical Themas. They look very impressive on the book shelf, and explode your brain when you read them.) Lovely post. I think it was one of the huge books by Douglas Hofstadter that I keep meaning to read more than 1/4 of that had a good explanation of this, and the phrase “le plus ca change, le plus c’est le meme chose” or “the more it changes, the samier it gets”.

He imagined a fly buzzing around a light bulb. You couldn’t see the bulb, and could see the fly only every so often. To start off with the fly seems to move around randomly, but after a while you can work out where the bulb is from all the places you’ve seen the fly.

All the different aspects of someone’s personality may seem weird at first, but after a while you can usually build them up into a coherent whole.

(The books are Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, and Metamagical Themas. They look very impressive on the book shelf, and explode your brain when you read them.)

]]> by: HelenHaricot http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-59 Tue, 29 May 2007 00:25:50 +0100 http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-59 hmm. my comment vansihed? multifaceted hmm. my comment vansihed?
multifaceted

]]> by: HelenHaricot http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-58 Tue, 29 May 2007 00:24:58 +0100 http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-58 good post. a good reason for me to he is so my girls have a strong feel of themselves as they are where they are loved - ie at home - before they feel they have to view themselves in the mirror of other peoples perception. i failed really badly at that growing up, and am hopefully getting more confident to just be and see. never sure that i do that mind you! i didn't think i tie in at all well with what is the most common preconceived ideas about what i 'am', but hope thats no bad thing on the whole! good post. a good reason for me to he is so my girls have a strong feel of themselves as they are where they are loved - ie at home - before they feel they have to view themselves in the mirror of other peoples perception.
i failed really badly at that growing up, and am hopefully getting more confident to just be and see. never sure that i do that mind you!
i didn’t think i tie in at all well with what is the most common preconceived ideas about what i ‘am’, but hope thats no bad thing on the whole!

]]> by: Lucy http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-57 Mon, 28 May 2007 21:53:02 +0100 http://monsterteeny.blogsome.com/2007/05/28/multi-faceted-or-just-two-faced/#comment-57 Oh my goodness! When I got to the bit about digging deeper and getting to know someone I thought for a horrible moment that you were going to reveal something unpleasant that you'd discovered about me! How vain am I? Lol. I agree with you. One thing I love about my children is that I am so honest about who I am with them. There is no act of cheer or holding my belly in, they see it all and are probably the only people that ever really have. Oh my goodness! When I got to the bit about digging deeper and getting to know someone I thought for a horrible moment that you were going to reveal something unpleasant that you’d discovered about me! How vain am I? Lol. I agree with you. One thing I love about my children is that I am so honest about who I am with them. There is no act of cheer or holding my belly in, they see it all and are probably the only people that ever really have.

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