More at: http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/04/15/b-w-betts-geometrical-psychology/
Benjamin Betts’ Geometrical Psychology, from 1887, contains a sequence of delicately toned geometric figures intended to represent no less than ‘the evolution of human consciousness from the animal, zero, or starting point, through to the culmination of human possibilities – the transcendental’. Originally educated as an architect, Bett’s resolved to to end his career determined to visualise the internal through his idiosyncratic topological models.
Attempting to map consciousness using mathematics, without considering the elementary state of neurology and psychology in the 19th Century, may be seen by some as a ridiculous pursuit. Dataisnature is happy to eschew scientific rigour, in order to savour Benjamin Betts’ metaphysical topologies. These illustration are worthy of attention by virtue of their forms, colours and aesthetic purity alone. In fact it might not be so ridiculous to attempt to visualise conscious states through the use of geometry, after all, since certain conscious states [hypnagogia, meditation and psychedelics] appear to act in unison with [or generate] geometric forms perceived within the visual field.
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