The Science of Dolls

I think busy people encounter collectors and easily see the create a universe around themselves with their collections. If you have the quiet disposition to connect with these people you can see that no, it is not their universe but indeed the actual universe and there collection is just a language they have fostered to describe it. It then challenges you to adopt the literacy and try out ideas and phrases in this language to illuminate the nooks and crannies of your world and at the same time the language. From robots, our new age science dolls we have the 'uncanny valley'. My friend had a 1848 wax doll that has soaked up the eerie depths of a young and deeply conflicted early Australia. Listen for some other passing stories. Listen to pick up the idle and incidental chance meeting in an Op shop, and then ponder what at the invisible social currents at play here. I muse through the intricacies of mirror neurons and the developmental windows that open up in childhood play, but we don't see through them back into the child as we are convinced there is nothing to see. Insight leads to perceiving a landscape of dolls quietly selling us this or that, ignoring us until we come to the party and buy a certain product. These dolls seen enmasse are silent inanimate sentinels at times reassuring at times censoring souls that are capable of so much more.

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