About
Greetings and welcome,
My name is Martyn Krügel and I thank you for dropping by. I created this page to serve as an introduction and a portal to direct visitors to my work. I’m a seeker of Logos who's fascinated with the concepts of information, language and meaning and more specifically, the roles these concepts play in the development of a conceptual consciousness. In my younger years I studied and taught music and I also spent close to a year in a Chinese Buddhist seminary where I wrestled a bit with philosophy and I’ve been wrestling ever since.
More recently I showed a few schools in Bangkok how when we utilize language we engage with information on two levels. On one level we engage with language information in the concrete where language is made perceptible on a surface level, so to speak, and on another level we engage with language information in the abstract, existing in thought. This is an important distinction to be aware of in a learning environment because the value that powers knowledge is not embedded in the perceptible surface information, the value that powers knowledge is to be found in the abstract meaning information.
My name is Martyn Krügel and I thank you for dropping by. I created this page to serve as an introduction and a portal to direct visitors to my work. I’m a seeker of Logos who's fascinated with the concepts of information, language and meaning and more specifically, the roles these concepts play in the development of a conceptual consciousness. In my younger years I studied and taught music and I also spent close to a year in a Chinese Buddhist seminary where I wrestled a bit with philosophy and I’ve been wrestling ever since.
More recently I showed a few schools in Bangkok how when we utilize language we engage with information on two levels. On one level we engage with language information in the concrete where language is made perceptible on a surface level, so to speak, and on another level we engage with language information in the abstract, existing in thought. This is an important distinction to be aware of in a learning environment because the value that powers knowledge is not embedded in the perceptible surface information, the value that powers knowledge is to be found in the abstract meaning information.
Upon first reading, this observation may appear to be strikingly obvious, however, in numerous learning environments in Thailand ranging from kindergarten all the way through to university, it seems that a higher degree of value is placed on the perceptible surface information only, whilst in many an instance a consideration of the abstract meaning information is completely discarded. It is this phenomenon that leads to the widespread practice of memorization and replication of only visual and auditory surface information.
Unfortunately, if a contemplation of the abstract meaning information of an idea to be learned never occurred, since attention was primarily and forcefully directed to the surface information only, an understanding of that idea wouldn't be able to occur and where an understanding of an idea was not reached, the knowledge of that idea will remain unattained.
Unfortunately, if a contemplation of the abstract meaning information of an idea to be learned never occurred, since attention was primarily and forcefully directed to the surface information only, an understanding of that idea wouldn't be able to occur and where an understanding of an idea was not reached, the knowledge of that idea will remain unattained.
For a closer inspection of my work and to gain a sense of how I go about in doing things, please follow the links provided throughout this page. If you have any questions or in need of a helpful and honest hand, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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I’d be delighted to be of service to anyone who needs a philosophical pondering of the creative and practical kind.
Background Information: Here’s a little infographic shedding some light on how it is I stumbled upon the road that I have traveled. 
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