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== Cognitive models ==
== Cognitive models ==
== Actually looking at a pattern (myth) ==
== Actually looking at a pattern (myth) ==
= Themes =
== Myth as signal and message ==
== Message as ontology ==
== Code as method of interpretation ==

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ANTH 245: Lecture for SEPT 17 2007

Recap

Rappaport's second cybernetic loop

  • Sacred propositions -> pragramatic proposition -> the System --> Ritual experience --> Sacred propositions
  • Actually similar to this:
    • EXPERIENCE --> RELIGION --> POLITICS --> ECONOMICS --> EXPERIENCE

Segue

Cognitive models

Actually looking at a pattern (myth)

Themes

Myth as signal and message

Message as ontology

Code as method of interpretation