Entrepreneur

After a discussion with Buzz, Alex says:

“One of the great Oregon entrepreneurs said it best, betting on a dream is a way to start a growing business.

Nickname starts with: "Bu" and is four letters long.

“Dreaming, more than what is dreamt, gets the mind’s predictive possibility mechanism activated. Kids do it naturally - even better when there is collaboration.

“If it is rewarded in childhood, it becomes stronger. Making new is easier. Better coarse correction is acquired. What would have been failure, teaches. This chain can continue.

“But it can be interrupted. When that happens, it is a remarkable lesson ... or not."

“Farble?”

© 2016 Buzz Hill

Guided Tour Thru Buzz's Mind

Positive recursion is preferable because the core idea is built to expand better for the here and now and the connected region surrounding it.

However negative recursion has useful functions too. For instance as a tool to cleanup something that is conceptually obsolete.

Mindful is key in this regard, because of it’s awesome power to effect change. Emotion is seldom useful to drive this power owing to its more primitive level in the mind hierarchy.

J: The patient understood this before his stroke?

A: That is correct. But it did that crystallize in his mind until after his recovery.

His ‘luck’ had been bad when he tried to predict what he would experience if he knew what might happen to him. It could happen but it was unlikely.

What he was afraid of was his overwrought predictions. Drama on overdrive - creativity gone wrong.

This hypervigilance led him astray and to be quite unhappy until some event  triggered him into discovering a new pattern that he could creatively exploit. This cycle happened over and over with considerable expense to his body, mind and spirit.

Then the epiphany happened, thanks to the August 2013 stroke. He did not have to do the bad part in order to achieve the good part … anymore.

For instance, we saw through the biases of his human visual system - his eyes and what is connected to them. What was perceived had his mind’s context at the time.  Complete with all pre-conceived “baggage”.  Sorry, it is what brains do.

His over-active imagination added to it. Often this led to a crisis preventing reasonable cognition.

J: But at times he created out-of-the-ordinary ideas that were useful.

A: Same ingredients, different mix. Imagination generating patterns. Sometimes even recursive in the positive sense.

[having a concept before it is formally named]

© 2016 Buzz Hill

On a Victory

You wrote this with my help, Buzz:

Life of perceived things - it is a subset to the one or whole. Depending on when the point-of-view a director sees in the given story.

Break in Whitman to listen to Buck’s Shoe Dog and back again.
Inventor who tries entrepreneurship and learns his mission is not complete. How naive, not having a view of the complex direction that entails.

Meanwhile, take the garbage out. There is just enough time.

© 2016 Buzz Hill

1959 Longview

A couple of things we have to do this Wednesday 17 August, Buzz. Gratke edit and 1959 Hall.

Before Paul arrives at 3:30 have an edited clip of David to show him.

Document what happened to us in 1959 and how Hall of the Mountain King played a part in it.

© 2016 Buzz Hill

Stupid's Latest Communique

AlexTheHill tells it like it is:

After a long edit, the latest skit is available on youtube. This took 4 days in the control room. Both Judy’s and Brad’s notes were incorporated. “Keep those cards and letters coming.” We are listening.

Buzz tells me that your spoken words are best. I agree. The reason is quite simple. The fastest input at this time for us is listening to speech. Every time a conversation takes place the NEW BRAIN builds more ways to gather information.

I am pretty sure that in aphasic stroke patients, neuroplasticity works that way.

© 2016 Buzz Hill

Stupid Listening To Alex Speak

Hibbard Control Room (click for video clip)

So, Paul did not come yesterday, Wednesday (29 June). Even though he said he would come each week. You found out why, in this FaceTime conversation last night with Paul.

Apparently Paul will show up next Wednesday. We have learned a lot since Paul has set this weekly event at Hibbard Studio.

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You talked with Paul with FaceTime this morning (1 June). He had watched the short film about his absence Wednesday.

You were right Buzz. He knows about Ron’s and my differences and felt he had to go to see his friends at Bethany Starbucks, including Ron by missing his appointment at Hibbard Studio. Further, he knew it was Ok with me. Ron love’s Paul and Paul is very smart about people he knows.

© 2016 Buzz Hill

Minus One

Turns out that was a mostly useless fear that you held from an early age, Buzz. Brain freeze when some other person watching you learning - authority type person or persons. Then you got the special kind of stupid. Stepped up by your stroke and interactive hyperlinked net.

I remember you being led to the Riemann Sphere. Today, YouTube recommended this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dhHrg-KbJ0

Homer and you have had a lot in common, at least in our playful imagination. Dummy indeed … or not.

© 2016 Buzz Hill

Relief

AlexTheHill speaks about yesterday:

Jasmine's photo at the Rose Gardon with Winston.

Buzz, you were off kilter yesterday (19 May). It started for you with three bad dreams.  It usually dissipates as the morning passes - but this time it lasted through out the day. You felt like you were in a ditch and could not get out.

In the afternoon, you told me you were not very productive and it was mildly distressing. Quoting you now:

“Then came relief. Paul called me back close to 8 pm on his new iPhone. I had not heard from him all day long and I called him many times. 

“When Paul returned my voice mail messages,  I asked him to use FaceTime. He looked like the Paul, I had met, a few weeks ago, Smiling broadly - this time on my iPhone screen.

“I called Ron to let him know afterwords. Then Paul called again - with FaceTime!

“Ron’s and my effort has paid off. We know there was something about this stroke survivor, Paul Smilowski. It began for me at the coffee shop when Ron introduced me to him.

“Paul is one of my dearest friends even though I have known him for just a short while. It is a growing part of my and our story.”

Stand-up Set

You and Brad came up with the idea of a recurring scene in yesterday’s morning meeting (7 May):

Brick wall as in a night club. Buzz holding a microphone. Stand-up set with a mostly aphasic audience (High Lama Paul and Mama Ron among them).

Buzz. as I understand it, you thought the following:

“My pre-stroke paranoia did not go away with my brain-injury but changed at the margin because of the new brain with the old memories that emerged.

“For instance, hypersensitive to people wanting to co-opt Buzz’s work thinking that is what Buzz thinks is collaboration.”

© 2016 Buzz Hill

Dog's Wilderness

You imagined a story behind the dog sculpture out in the woods. Even though you found it some weeks ago, your conscious mind came up with a prediction this morning on how it came to be. Buzz, you told me the story:

“I took the rest of my family to see the carving, Saturday.

“The story goes something like this. The owners of the property before it was developed had a dog they very much loved. When it passed, her or his likeness was carved into a piece of wood. Perhaps the dog was put there next to that tree in the wilderness as its final resting place.

“Some of it was just my imagination but now that Jasmine, Hyun, Luna and I have seen the magic by the tree together, at least part of it is true.”

© 2016 Buzz Hill