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--- parenzana_residency_notes [2013-10-05 09:27] – [Notes from 20131003] nik
+++ parenzana_residency_notes [2013-10-06 08:33] – [Notes from 20131005] sarah.neville
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   * Finding historical and contemporary lore about observing animals as early warning systems for weather changes and natural disasters
   * To discuss: cemetery of discarded stories (and dead media)
+  * Community conversation on "the sun is different" / "the sky is red"
 **Myths and Natural Early Warning Systems**
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 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0104_050104_tsunami_animals_2.html</blockquote>
+====Notes from 20131005 ====
+=== Conversation with Matt ===
+  * Human reactions to controlled environment (such as a city, http://www.superflux.in/blog/infrastructure-fiction) and uncontrolled environment (everything that's not a city)
+  * Weatherlore is an interesting direction, it seems more malleable than myths
+  * Evolutionary psychology - how much of our worldview is based on primitive responses? to research: meaning making in humans, in contrast to animals, who primarily respond to stimuli without trying to make sense out of it
+    * e.g difference between a bird sensing EM field in contrast to the human responses "making stuff up to try to understand what happens".
+    * human responses to stimuli: physical (tend to be dampened nowadays), mental (meaning making)
+    * sonic experiment - pre-disaster changes in EM field
+    * physical responses to the environment: body weather
+    * (non)awareness of environmental changes: e.g. bushfire on an unusually hot day out of bushfire season in Adelaide Hills: seasons are more in flux, but people tend not to pay attention to signals from the environment. if the laws change to make an out-of-season fire instigation into criminal negligence - proof of acceptance of climate change.
+**Making Meaning**
+  * How do humans make meaning of events that happen to them?
+  * The role of meaning in human thinking http://jetpress.org/v17/marsen.htm
+  * Levi-Strauss postulates that myths serve to mediate conflicting or dualistic elements of society and life.The symbolic mediation in myths offers inspiration for culture and culture members to heal, flourish, or accept their reality.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss