The role of songs and verse Navigating the site:
Arnold Pacey, a physicist looking at tool making, use, and influences.
Is music the origin of technological virtuosity, or as Pursell argues, is the development of language in prehistoric culture responsible for exaptation in tool use?
Chapter 1. Music, one of the sources of technology's power and influence
Singing the World into creation
"... the world began only when their Ancestor sang it into existence." -- an Australian aboriginal superstition or wisdom?
These beliefs suggest or ... "Singing also implies dancing and poetry" in the creation of existence.
"to interpret the world and give it meaning"
p. 17
"how technology helps to endow our world with meaning."
"We must understand how the aesthetic is intertwined with the practical, how the giving of meaning is related to building and making...."
p. 18
"the real sources of technology .... are to be found in the human body."
John Blacking, p. 23.
Worldview Animistic Mechanistic third way way of seeing animism mechanism subtle faith in our beliefs organic mechanical inadequate character evolving causal inclusive behavior spontaneous repetitive cybernetic p. 37.
"The worldview that I presuppose in this book, . . . portrays technology as part of a more subtle nature than causal mechanical models allow."
"And it is a worldview in which human relationships and human purposes may have a closer connection with technological progress than sometimes seems possible."
p. 38.
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1. Music, Sources of Technology
6. Exploration, Invention and the Remaking of Nature
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| Tools of Toil: what to read. | ||
| Tools are historical building blocks of technology. | ||
