FEELING TONE-CURVES
Time-Binding and Time-Scrambling
ANNOTATION:
|...| Lydia Liu, The Freudian Robot
Carl Jung used a galvometer in his "word association" experiments (1907), which registered the response to lowering of electrical resistance in the body; here “feeling tone curves” are recorded on a roll of paper. As each word was uttered a stop-watch would record the response and the next word would follow. The result was a series of lines forming “peaks” and troughs which together could be read as patterns of behaviour. Jung concluded "“The unconscious is an autometer” [1]
ASSOCIATION EXPERIMENTS–MODALITIES
Alfred Korzybski and William Burroughs – Time-Binding and Time-Scrambling
ANNOTATING:
|...| Lydia Liu The Freudian Robot
Jung’s Association Experiments of 1907. (In common with Shannon, Pierce and Bavelas' games)
Require response to
written and verbal symbols
randomness and chance
require production of symbols
identification of patterns
time constraints (in most cases)
use of devices or machines[2]