memory place identity

Dear Helgi,

It is very kind of you to respond so quickly and generously.
Pardon me for not being ab le to arrange a joint session on Thursday
because my laptop died and now I am traveling from house to house and
borrowing other people's networks.
It would be a pleasure to arrange for us to talk with my colleague
David Morris if possible about our Memory and Place experiments,
sometime after I return to Montrea.

Let me ask all three of you if you would all perhaps be available on
the weekend Dec 19-20.

With Warm Regards,
Xin Wei

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Helgi Schweizer <jon.helgi@web.de> wrote:

Hi Satinder.

It is a real a christmas surprise gift to get this message from you. I hope, you are doing well

in the UK. The topic Xin Wei has come up with is not only very exciting, but it is in a certain

way also historically connected to me. The relation of memory and learning to the experience

of space, to body movement and emotion was central to all the experiments my doctor-father

Ivo Kohler invented and carried out in his very peculiar fashion. I was involved in some of them.

As you might know, Kohler was  in very close contact to James G. Gibson and admired his

ecological psychology. Kohler became most famous for developping further the experiments

of George Stratton, especially wearing prism-glasses that inverted left and right for several

months. I think Kohlers experiments are worth being thought over anew, this time with

emphasis on his notions aside, that he did not publish because he thought they were too

strange or counterintuitve. Most of them were related to changes in space perception, but

could only be described in a more or less qualitative way, that would not seem scientifically

appropriate, at least not for publiction.

As to my present work, I am at the moment immersed in a somewhat different work, applying

my fundamentalistic theory to a number of fields of practice. At the moment I am writing a book on

Theater (in a very broad sense). It is my  book number twenynine. The focus is now, approaching the

end of the book, on interachtive media and computer games. (Actually, my younger son is successfully

running a browser game).

As soon as I shall have finished this work, I would love to take part in Xin WeiŽs project. I think, I am

still good for the one or the other weird idea when it comes to design experiments.

Dear Satinder, could you give me an idea, what are your fields of interest at the present? Although

I am retired, I am still doing research on interpersonal synchronisation and rhythmic interaction, on

manipulation of subjective time by music and especially by application of Ganzfeld. We have done a

lot of work developping further the so called  colour-light- music. This was a joint-project with the

philharmony in Luxemburg. (Thats where the money is).

With warm regads.

Helgi

Jón-Helgi
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