[renewals: other than academic]
Interspersed with the thought-provoking panels, papers, presentations, escapes to the library, and myriad conversations, I had the pleasure of roaming Royal Holloway's beautiful campus, poking my head in the extravagant chapel, and dining in the Picture Gallery. 
One night Sue and I embarked on a game of prompted much thinking (on my part) as to why I enjoy a game at which I'm so embarrassingly poor.
I enjoyed the concentration required to hold the cue and the drive to sink my yellow ball. I found myself mentally tracing the patterns that we created with the balls crashing and then diverging. Then I did some reading and it seems, according to some scientists that we don't actually see the touching/colliding/smashing of balls but rather only the after-effect. It sounds like we only se
e that which causes collision rather than collision itself.
Kind of like Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: you might know the speed of a quantum particle, but you won't know its exact location.
On Friday evening we enjoyed live Jazz while we sipped Pimms within Founder's North Quad. It was (finally) lovely weather and the notes seemed to float along with the breeze and murmuring of voices. Once I figure out how to transfer sound files from my blackberry I'll add some music here.
Update: Catherine, the blogger in residence for the Renewals conference, has added a slew of posts on panels and presentations. Check it out.
Labels: conference, games, philosophy, science, university
posted by Jess @ 16:43
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Very beautiful setting for some music. I am hoping that there will be a nice concert at Harbourfront later in the summer to enjoy.
"playing" pool? Not the Jess I know!
Jess, you make pool sound very elegant! I'd add to your description the measured pace of the game, the turn-taking, and the hand-to-eye calculations, all of which combine to make it seem almost like a conversation rather than a competition (in an ideal world, of course - I'm not referrring to my own clumsy poking around of the ball!)
Nihilist - yup. It was an extremely beautiful setting. Harbourfront is a great place though too! What's the summer line-up there? Have any photos we can take a look at of lake ontario and jazz?
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K - Thanks K. Now readers will know I wasn't just being philosophically self-deprecating but I totally suck at pool....
Hi Sue, social networking in the early hours of the morning - I wonder which social networking perspective you might fit into (today's post)?
I wonder if there are any philosophical groups out there who use pool as a setting for discussion?
"Herein lies the difficulty which I can never solve to my satisfaction--What is knowledge? Can we answer that question? What say you? which of us will speak first? whoever misses shall sit down, as at a game of ball, and shall be donkey, as the boys say; he who lasts out his competitors in the game without missing, shall be our king, and shall have the right of putting to us any questions which he pleases..." Socrates.
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