Subject: Re: Beware of circles From: "Gossmann, Joachim" <jgossmann@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:54:01 -0700 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>If an associative comment is allowed, I found this seemingly random collection of images strangely relevant to the relationship between geometric structural metaphors and the real-world phenomena they refer to. Sometimes we get so fascinated and absorbed in the metaphorical models we make up in order handle reality we believe they are what's actually out there - but the real thing easily surpasses a description by straight lines, circles, etc. . . . http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Inflorescence_diagrams +++ Joachim Gossmann, PhD Candidate Center for Research and Computing in the Arts 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, California 92093 U.S.A. +1 760 612 4268 ________________________________________ From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception [AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Brian Gygi [bgygi@xxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 4:45 PM To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Beware of circles Dear Bruno, No wonder they call them "vicious circles." Brian Gygi, Ph.D. Speech and Hearing Research Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System 150 Muir Road Martinez, CA 94553 (925) 372-2000 x5653