Vic's Scientific (Philosophical) Research Pick-up Lines. Which End Up Turning Into Lengthy Rants.
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Victoria "Stokastika"
Nov 6, 2008, 12:06:30 AM11/6/08
to Question Reality
My first and foremost pick-up line of humans are "Are you left-
handed?"
Then it gets a little more technical from there:
As an Environmental Media student, ultimately I am attempting to make
scientific practice a personal and emotional experience. I am
attempting to experience the scientific method in my own daily life. I
am attempting to experience "work" and "life" in one integrated
process.
So, in my research, I end up asking very personal questions, that may
lead to understanding of universal principles. So, in the end, I have
come to realize that to understand environmental problems, it will
ultimately understanding the individual human perception of
environmental problems. I have chosen the unit of organization to be
the individual human identity, which can be summarized as a multi-
factorial matrix of values, perception, language, and ontogeny of
these factors (personal history). And all systems of higher
organization can be dervied by understanding the dynamics of an
individual human. (Scientific practice is like an effort of peer-
reviewed collective cognitive mapping project of the continuity of our
selves and our environment).
My whole research agenda revolves around the premise of Questioning
Reality. The central Ph.D. question is "What's the Point?" in which no
one seems to be directly addressing this question, though we certainly
have voted in thed direction of attempting to answer and solve the
question.
My three (personal) research questions: (1). Why did I go through
anorexia? Why does the condition of anorexia exist? Is anorexia a
psychological problem or an environmental problem? And why and how did
I get myself out?
(2) Why did I go nuts after working at Del Taco for only a month? And
how can a society create such a job? (3) How do I convince a rich guy
in Newport Beach to donate $15 to a non-profit organization that will
in part help save dolphins while attempting to fish for Tuna in the
Eastern Tropical Pacific?
Even though I am in the Bren School, philosophically I should be in
the Ecology and Evolution Department. All my friends are biologists
and geologists. They typically have their pet peeve rocks and
organisms (dolphins, oak trees, gekkos), but I just happened to choose
the investigation a peculiar organism called a “human being.” In fact,
no matter what I do in life--whether pursuits of media, government,
engineering and robotics--I will always hold and interpret Reality
from a biologist's frame of reference. Or at least the big-picture
Biologists at UC Santa Barbara.
handed?"
Then it gets a little more technical from there:
As an Environmental Media student, ultimately I am attempting to make
scientific practice a personal and emotional experience. I am
attempting to experience the scientific method in my own daily life. I
am attempting to experience "work" and "life" in one integrated
process.
So, in my research, I end up asking very personal questions, that may
lead to understanding of universal principles. So, in the end, I have
come to realize that to understand environmental problems, it will
ultimately understanding the individual human perception of
environmental problems. I have chosen the unit of organization to be
the individual human identity, which can be summarized as a multi-
factorial matrix of values, perception, language, and ontogeny of
these factors (personal history). And all systems of higher
organization can be dervied by understanding the dynamics of an
individual human. (Scientific practice is like an effort of peer-
reviewed collective cognitive mapping project of the continuity of our
selves and our environment).
My whole research agenda revolves around the premise of Questioning
Reality. The central Ph.D. question is "What's the Point?" in which no
one seems to be directly addressing this question, though we certainly
have voted in thed direction of attempting to answer and solve the
question.
My three (personal) research questions: (1). Why did I go through
anorexia? Why does the condition of anorexia exist? Is anorexia a
psychological problem or an environmental problem? And why and how did
I get myself out?
(2) Why did I go nuts after working at Del Taco for only a month? And
how can a society create such a job? (3) How do I convince a rich guy
in Newport Beach to donate $15 to a non-profit organization that will
in part help save dolphins while attempting to fish for Tuna in the
Eastern Tropical Pacific?
Even though I am in the Bren School, philosophically I should be in
the Ecology and Evolution Department. All my friends are biologists
and geologists. They typically have their pet peeve rocks and
organisms (dolphins, oak trees, gekkos), but I just happened to choose
the investigation a peculiar organism called a “human being.” In fact,
no matter what I do in life--whether pursuits of media, government,
engineering and robotics--I will always hold and interpret Reality
from a biologist's frame of reference. Or at least the big-picture
Biologists at UC Santa Barbara.
Victoria "Stokastika"
Nov 6, 2008, 3:14:08 AM11/6/08
to Question Reality
Hello. My name is Victoria. I am a Survivor of Anorexia.
Traditionally defined shrinks provided close to no service in aiding
the arduous journey of metamorphosis from a 6-foot tall, 95-pound
stick to a dynamic condition of physical and mental health (now
consequentially in graduate school in environmental media--a desperate
attempt to fuse science and the arts for understanding the human-
environmental condition).
The Shrinks who Saved My Life in fact were of anomalous backgrounds:
an evolutionary biologist, a geologist, and a couple of ecologists.
It's not that any of these professors ever had any intentions to save
the life and mind of an ailing student, but it was more so an
opportunity meeting a prepared mind, and spontaneous organization of
thought--extensive series of meditations--occurred thereon after.
Surviving anorexia is a scientific experiment. A case study with an
individual life. I suggest that you do not try this at home--
especially in an intentional manner. It was an unintentional condition
I spiraled down into at the end of high school, and instead of finding
proximate reasons for falling into this condition, I searched for
ultimate answers into the realm of non-humans--the natural sciences
(ecology and evolution department).
Nothing was rational about human behavior (especially in America).
Through learning about the lives of other organisms and their
interactions with their environments, I slowly came to undersand
myself (in a relative sense), and I slowly developed a rational
incentive and emotional desire to eat. First question I come to pose:
Is anorexia truly a mental disorder? Or an environ-mental disorder? An
ecological disorder of a human interacting with its overall
environment? A disease of an individua due to a mass-accumulation
effect of negative environmental factors?
To great convenience, there exists uncanny parallels in Acquired
Reasoning between Surviving Anorexia and Humans Surviving on Planet
Earth, aka the Sustainability experiment. Being a continued survivor
of Anorexia, which has left a trail of logic ("mental scars") has
allowed me to see clear connections between human psychology and the
environment, as well as flip Environmental Logic Upside Down and On
Its Back. I am arguing that Scale and Human Behavior--not global
warming--is a more optimal frame of reference for understanding and
manipulating the human-environmental condition. I am arguing that
"environmental problems are actually mass-scale, cross-generational
psychological problems." Talk about mangling an egg into a novel dish
never created before. Indeed, there are new ways how to re-invent an
Old Wheel.
And an accidental, uninentional Logical March out of Anorexia allowed
me to see things that I would have never had the capacity to see--or
perhaps could see, but would have taken a lifetime to perceive it.
Unfortunately, being reduced to the condition of facing the choice of
life or death speeds up the creativity and problem-solving process
such that now I have the body of a 27-year old, the hormones of a 16-
year old, and the mind of a 60-year old. My existence is not well
synced-up.
Oh well.
Traditionally defined shrinks provided close to no service in aiding
the arduous journey of metamorphosis from a 6-foot tall, 95-pound
stick to a dynamic condition of physical and mental health (now
consequentially in graduate school in environmental media--a desperate
attempt to fuse science and the arts for understanding the human-
environmental condition).
The Shrinks who Saved My Life in fact were of anomalous backgrounds:
an evolutionary biologist, a geologist, and a couple of ecologists.
It's not that any of these professors ever had any intentions to save
the life and mind of an ailing student, but it was more so an
opportunity meeting a prepared mind, and spontaneous organization of
thought--extensive series of meditations--occurred thereon after.
Surviving anorexia is a scientific experiment. A case study with an
individual life. I suggest that you do not try this at home--
especially in an intentional manner. It was an unintentional condition
I spiraled down into at the end of high school, and instead of finding
proximate reasons for falling into this condition, I searched for
ultimate answers into the realm of non-humans--the natural sciences
(ecology and evolution department).
Nothing was rational about human behavior (especially in America).
Through learning about the lives of other organisms and their
interactions with their environments, I slowly came to undersand
myself (in a relative sense), and I slowly developed a rational
incentive and emotional desire to eat. First question I come to pose:
Is anorexia truly a mental disorder? Or an environ-mental disorder? An
ecological disorder of a human interacting with its overall
environment? A disease of an individua due to a mass-accumulation
effect of negative environmental factors?
To great convenience, there exists uncanny parallels in Acquired
Reasoning between Surviving Anorexia and Humans Surviving on Planet
Earth, aka the Sustainability experiment. Being a continued survivor
of Anorexia, which has left a trail of logic ("mental scars") has
allowed me to see clear connections between human psychology and the
environment, as well as flip Environmental Logic Upside Down and On
Its Back. I am arguing that Scale and Human Behavior--not global
warming--is a more optimal frame of reference for understanding and
manipulating the human-environmental condition. I am arguing that
"environmental problems are actually mass-scale, cross-generational
psychological problems." Talk about mangling an egg into a novel dish
never created before. Indeed, there are new ways how to re-invent an
Old Wheel.
And an accidental, uninentional Logical March out of Anorexia allowed
me to see things that I would have never had the capacity to see--or
perhaps could see, but would have taken a lifetime to perceive it.
Unfortunately, being reduced to the condition of facing the choice of
life or death speeds up the creativity and problem-solving process
such that now I have the body of a 27-year old, the hormones of a 16-
year old, and the mind of a 60-year old. My existence is not well
synced-up.
Oh well.
Victoria "Stokastika"
Nov 8, 2008, 2:41:05 PM11/8/08
to Question Reality
There are things that I see. I don't understand completely how or why
I see them, and why other people don't see them. But I perceive them,
and I must take responsibility for perceiving them.
I see them, and why other people don't see them. But I perceive them,
and I must take responsibility for perceiving them.
Victoria "Stokastika"
Nov 10, 2008, 2:21:01 PM11/10/08
to Question Reality
Two or three spelling errors in this passage.
**change "chance opportunity prepared mind"
**change "mass accumulation of negative environmental factors" to a
pre-disposed, overly-systematic, type A personality.
**change "chance opportunity prepared mind"
**change "mass accumulation of negative environmental factors" to a
pre-disposed, overly-systematic, type A personality.
Victoria "Stokastika"
Nov 10, 2008, 3:18:57 PM11/10/08
to Question Reality
**Was read to the CCS Literature Course with Dr. Carolyn Allen.
**People are very interested in seeing the logic structures, parallels
between anorexia and sustainability.
**"mental" or "environmental"?
**felt like I was reading to a Fight Club Self Help Group.
**People are very interested in seeing the logic structures, parallels
between anorexia and sustainability.
**"mental" or "environmental"?
**felt like I was reading to a Fight Club Self Help Group.
Victoria "Stokastika"
Nov 10, 2008, 6:41:54 PM11/10/08
to Question Reality
On Monday, November 10, 2008, Vic does not learn or write anymore for
the sake of reward.
She is on a Suicide Mission.
Victoria is Desperate. She needs to commit philosophical suicide by
the end of the quarter.
the sake of reward.
She is on a Suicide Mission.
Victoria is Desperate. She needs to commit philosophical suicide by
the end of the quarter.
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