Perception and Gnosology

One half hour ago i received an email form Mr. jack Parsons again. He said it was unfortunate that i have already previously done a perception assignment but it was protocol that i do another for him. Well there isn't much that's too unfortunate about it. The last one a submitted didn't require photographs and explanations of to why i would pick them to "represent how I see the world". I'm actually excited to do this again as it means of warming up the old grey matter. I will deliver to them a sort of gnosis...

"Gnosology may be considered in the context of cognitive psychology to be a study of gnosis; or an attempt to objectively access the experience of an other's firsthand knowledge."-wikipedia

Gnosology is something that has always interested me weather i knew that was the word for it or not. I like so many others sometimes feel trapped behind my own eyes and wish that i could see through others and they through mine. Every ones perception differs and there is no way to have another person experience the same thing you did even if you had been standing shoulder to shoulder at the time of the event in which you are trying to objectively share. Depending on your thought process you can "see" different objects and events in the same time and space and of course you will have differing emotions on the subject. Now I know this is no Revelation to you more just a reiteration of the facts.But it is for my own frustration with this subject that brings me to enjoy art.

Creating visual arts is the closest thing to being able to create an experience of gnosis. By translating and abstracting a picture or event through your mind via your hand and tool set you are reducing (but not eliminating) the viewers own Semiotic process... to some extent.

Semiosis this one s a bit hard to explain without going too in depth. I'll borrow what i can to explain. This blurb explains the act of semiosi I think you'll get the drift

"As an insect or animal, human or otherwise, moves through its environment (sometimes termed the Umwelt), all the senses collect data which are made available to the brain. However, to prevent sensory overload, only salient data will receive the full attention of the cognitive elements of the mind. This indicates that a part of the process must be controlled by a model of the real world capable of ranking data elements in terms of their significance and filtering out the data irrelevant to survival. A sign cannot function until the audience distinguishes it from the background noise. It then triggers cognitive activity to interpret the data input and so convert it into meaningful information"

"Umwelt; The term is usually translated as "subjective universe".
The Umwelt theory states that the mind and the world are inseparable, because it is the mind that interprets the world for the organism. Consequently, the Umwelts of different organisms differ, which follows from the individuality and uniqueness of the history of every single organism. When two Umwelts interact, this creates a semiosphere."

"Semiosphere is the sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts"
Definitions from ~Wikipedia

So if i haven't lost you yet ..what I'm trying to say is that by simply painting a picture or taking a photo etc. you are essentially removing the person from their own umwlet and their own semiotic process and letting them see the world through the semiosphere as you see it.

Now of course every piece of art it then reinterpreted again by the viewer using the same process but it has then become abstracted and distilled by you so as that you can manipulate the semiotic process into an unveiling of semi truth (the world through your eyes and not thiers) or creating for them a semi"gnostic" experience.

that's enough for tonight I'm afraid I'll become incomprehensible if i stay away for too much longer.

~Grey