26-07-2013, 07:16 PM
Hello Charles,
My sister has a few cats as pets. I've been playing with one of them recently, one of those feather-on-string-wand things (I think officially it's called "The Cat Dancer"); you show the cat the bright feather, then jerk it away as the cat gets close. The cat is endlessly fascinated with this game, her eye squarely on the bright feather as it darts back and forth in her field of vision. The cat becomes absorbed, mindlessly chasing the feather.
The other day she and I played this game together when suddenly her eye caught my hand, holding the wand and moving the string and feather. It stopped her dead in her tracks. Her perception had shifted. Now when I attempt to engage her, she'll look at the feather swinging to and fro, and then she'll look up at the moving hand that is the source of the whole thing. The game doesn't fascinate her so much anymore.
I think that's a case of a shifting frame. What fascinates me now is not so much when a frame shifts, but when they are shattered. Is that even a possibility? I am moving towards the understanding that there is that possibility for the human mind. And, it scares the hell out of those that have the world to lose.
My sister has a few cats as pets. I've been playing with one of them recently, one of those feather-on-string-wand things (I think officially it's called "The Cat Dancer"); you show the cat the bright feather, then jerk it away as the cat gets close. The cat is endlessly fascinated with this game, her eye squarely on the bright feather as it darts back and forth in her field of vision. The cat becomes absorbed, mindlessly chasing the feather.
The other day she and I played this game together when suddenly her eye caught my hand, holding the wand and moving the string and feather. It stopped her dead in her tracks. Her perception had shifted. Now when I attempt to engage her, she'll look at the feather swinging to and fro, and then she'll look up at the moving hand that is the source of the whole thing. The game doesn't fascinate her so much anymore.
I think that's a case of a shifting frame. What fascinates me now is not so much when a frame shifts, but when they are shattered. Is that even a possibility? I am moving towards the understanding that there is that possibility for the human mind. And, it scares the hell out of those that have the world to lose.