Using Creativity to Understand Information Flows
Here we are proposing a new area of science/art theory and research, creating new sense based technologies for communicating intent to the experiencer. This area of aesthetic flows over many disciplines and encompasses ideas of shared space of the imagination that is the common area of the human experience shared by artists, scientists and technologists. The concept is to create a web based space that allows for the exchange of ideas regarding the commonalities between disciplines so that the intention of the communicator gets across to the one being communicated to in the clearest and most efficient way. At this point it is a shell that is slowly beginning to be filled. At some point it becomes an egg from which the new ideas will emerge.
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science. - - Carl Sagan
This theme was later clearly articulated by Samuel Bordreuil in his observations regarding the Alert and the reaction which may or may not be an Alarm. Roger, my wife Kathryn and I were framing this discussion in terms of the INTENTION of the person creating the alert and the ATTENTION of the persons noticing and possibly triggered into action or a state of alarm as a result. There is an ongoing meme in current media theory of the Technologies of Attention framed around how to get individuals to notice the meaning of a particular new context created in new media. We are actually talking about the:
TECHNOLOGIES OF INTENTION
actually from the creators side any way?-
Pay Attention to Intention
In 1890, William James, in his textbook Principles of Psychology, remarked:
Everyone knows what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence. It implies withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, and is a condition which has a real opposite in the confused, dazed, scatterbrained state which in French is called distraction, and Zerstreutheit in German
Intention is an agent's specific purpose in performing an action or series of actions, the end or goal that is aimed at. Outcomes that are unanticipated or unforeseen are known as unintended consequences. Intentional behavior can also be just thoughtful and deliberate goal-directedness. Recent research in experimental philosophy has shown that other factors may also matter for whether or not an action is counted as intentional.