lichen lifestyle is an example of convergent evolution, having independently evolved in over ten different lineages of fungal symbionts
I understand the molecular level of convergent evolution but this may be the ecology version of it!?
- Molecular convergent evolution = Similar functions evolving in different organisms starting from different paths / without using homologs of the same proteins for example.
Universal basic income (UBI) refers to proposed systems that replace some social insurance programs with periodic cash paymentsto every citizen.
rhetoric: authors/editors use an objective definition of Universal Basic Income
inference: I have seen this a lot over the last few years. Andrew Yang mentioned it for his presidential campaigns, and gave the opinion a lot of credibility. This helps to explain or establish the concept in my paper, which I can present as a false solution that harms everyone involved, including the taxpayers. It is proposed as the "solution" to AI disrupting the workplace today!
astroturfed.
for - definition - astroturfed - disguise (an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign) in such a way as to present it as having arisen from unsolicited public comments. (Dictionary)
The development of a professional identity as a counselor is the result of training, practice, and integration into a community of professional counselors and is defined as the synthesis of personal and professional behaviors, values, ethics, and worldview.
SECTION 1A - Definition of professional identity. Foundational quote for paper.
Reference
Preprints. (2024). Traditional ecological knowledge and environmental stewardship. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202406.1838.v1
"Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) refers to the cumulated wisdom, practices, and beliefs concerning their natural environment developed over centuries by indigenous and local communities"(Preprints,2024)
This definition explains that Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is not just a information about nature but it is a system that includes historical knowledge developed over past generations. The phrase "long term interaction" is important because it shows that TEK knowledge comes from repeated experience with same land over time. TEK focus on continuous observation and adaptation as compared to scientific research which focus on limited timeframes. This definition gave clarification that TEK is structured and intentional, not outdated or random knowledge. TEK challenges modern science that Environmental knowledge only comes from modern science.
Unitig A uniquely assembleable subset of overlapping fragments. A unitig is an assembly offragments for which there are no competing choices in terms of internal overlaps. Thismeans that a unitig is either a correctly assembled portion of a contig or it is anovercompressed assembly of several high-fidelity copies of a repeat.
virtual Bismarck
for - definition - virtual Bismarck
mirror life
for - definition - mirror life - progress trap
science of interpretability
for - definition - interpretability - Claude training
Constitutional AI,
for - definition - constitutional AI
freedom of embodiment.
for - definition - freedom of embodiment - Michael Levin
vanishes when the computer is turned off.
volatile memory
illicit
not authorized or allowed; improper.
ethnographer
an expert in or a student of ethnography
memex
for - definition - memex
There’s a new kind of coding I call “vibe coding”, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It’s possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like “decrease the padding on the sidebar by half” because I’m too lazy to find it. I “Accept All” always, I don’t read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I’d have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can’t fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It’s not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding—I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
vibecoding original description by Andrej Karpathy
Quickly distorted to mean any code created w llm assistance. Note: [[Martijn Aslander p]] follows this dev quite closely (dictation, accept always, it mostly works)
coding agents—LLM systems that can write code, execute that code, inspect the results and then iterate further.
author def of coding agents
f you define agents as LLM systems that can perform useful work via tool calls over multiple steps then agents are here and they are proving to be extraordinarily useful. The two breakout categories for agents have been for coding and for search.
recognisable, ai agents as chunked / abstracted away automation. This also creates the pitfall [[After claiming to redeploy 4,000 employees and automating their work with AI agents, Salesforce executives admit We were more confident about…. - The Times of India]] where regular automation is replaced by AI.
Most useful for search and for coding
Be-schränkungen für unser Handeln
phento Buddhism
for - definition - femto Buddhism
Being able to use the tools you have and new ways to solve problems you've never seen before. That is not a weird way to define intelligence,
for - definition - intelligence - Michael Levin - to be able to use tools to find new ways to solve problems (reach goals)
information fasts
for - definition - information fast
for - Medium article - cogress - Part 1 - progress trap - James Gien Wong - definition - cogress - to - Medium article cogress - Part 2 - progress trap - James Gien Wong - https://hyp.is/t8FhpDGAEfC4J7f0NEFujg/medium.com/@gien_SRG/human-cogress-part-2-d6fd075a55c7 - to - Stop Reset Go hypothesis annotations - progress trap - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - General - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap - from - youtube - Planet Critical interview - Samuel Miller MacDonald - The Myth of Progress - https://hyp.is/r-hmFtjKEfCd8odATbINbA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhmWEDkZUQ
A major evolutionary transition in individuality is defined by two conditions
for: - MET - METI - Major Evolutionary Transition in Individuality - definition - Major Evolutionary Transition in Individuality (METI) - two conditions for METI - 1. living forms that were capable of independent replication before the replication can only replicate as part of a larger unit after the MET - 2. there is a lack of within-group conflict such that the larger unit can be thought of as a fitness-maximizing individual in its own right. - When these 2 conditions are met, evolution lea a new higher level organism. - The new individual acts with a single purpose where the interests of the previously independent individuals are now aligned.
t’s a very generic definition that I think gets to the heart of what we mean by intelligence, which is the ability to adaptively navigate a problem space with some degree of competency to get your needs met
for - definition - intelligence - Michael Levin the ability to adaptively navigae a problem space with some degree of competency to get your needs met (to fulfill your goal seeking activity)
evolutionary transition in both inheritance and individuality (ETII).
for - gene-culture coevolution - definition - Evolutionary Transition in both Inheritance and Individuality (ETII) - authors - Timothy M Waring - Zachary T Wood - paper - Cultural inheritance is driving a transition in human evolution 2025
cut and paste enzymes
for - definition - cut and paste enzyme - living cells provide cut and past enzyme to run along the genome and correct all the replication errors
Francis Crick had formulated what he called the central dogma of molecular biology
for - definition - The central dogma of molecular biology \ - our genes generate proteins - proteins form bodily structures - everything within our body can therefore be predicted from the level of the DNA
the teological sin
for - definition - the teological sin - biological systems aren't suppose to have agency!
bacteria engage in extensive horizontal gene transfer
for - definition - horizontal gene transfer - genetic material transfer across species boundaries
keystone species
for - definition - keystone microbiome species - critical species that, if removed, can engender collapse of the entire microbiome system
microbiomics
for - definition - microbiomics - the study of the multiple microbial ecosystems that constitute the (human) bidy
The term 'economic superorganism' is not to be interpreted as biological
for - definition - economic superorganism - The cohesive whole brought about by agriculture and the architecture that underlies it. Not to be interpreted as biological. - Used more in the sense of Henrich (economic superorganism) which refers to the structure and dynamic in cooperative material life particular to agriculture - NOT used in the strictly biological sense of E.O. Wilson, Holldobler
anecdata
Some call it civilization, I prefer to call Goliath.
for - definition - Goliath - the anthropological shift from egalitarianism to power hierarchy over the holocene - to - book publisher's page - Goliath's Curse - Luke Kemp - from - youtube - The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift
optimal foraging theory
for - definition - optimal foraging theory - our ancestors minimized energy expended for gathering food and maximized leisure time
we also need know that when you start pushing systems you will get a resistance and right now we talk about a transformation backlash in the in in the research
for - definition - transformation backlash - resistance experienced when pushing against an existing system - progress trap - polycrisis - climate crisis - transformation backlash
what is ecological civilization?
for - definition - ecological civilization - Eastern-based perspective of humans living in harmony with nature - Institutionalized in policy in 2012
this economy creates coercive dependence
for - definition - coercive dependence - overproductive economic system imposes overconsumption via lobbying regulation, advertising - creation of resource-intensive dependence as main industrial product of our era
anthroposine harms
for - definition - anthropocene harm
transformations comes with transformation uh sort of deep emotional and psychological challenges. And we talk about in in the research also about transition pain and transition risk
for - definition - transition risk - definition - transition pain
I personally feel the decision was made in 2014 before we'd even put forward proposal. So it was already decided um by those with with power within ICS and IUGS where the where the where it was going because the actual data behind the submission wasn't the reason for rejection.
for - definition - anthropocene - rejection of the term - it was rejected on dogmatic grounds, not on the evidence provided
we used a number of different proxies at 12 different sites, and they all recorded very clearly the effects of the great acceleration. And with that midpoint of about 1952.9 years, it all makes perfect sense. So it's not just the site at Crawford Lake, but all of the sites that we looked at showed a very very similar signal.
for - definition - anthropocene - synchronized signals of great acceleration at all 12 sites, not just Crawford Lake - Francine McCarthy, Brock University
Crawford Lake in Canada
for - definition - anthropocene - key reference site - Crawford Lake, Canada
one remaining project of course is still the formalization because while that is, you know, as as as Johan said, in many respects it doesn't matter, but in some it does partly because the anthroposine's meaning has been stretched so widely in so many areas that it makes sense to try and at least define it clearly and precisely in one sense so it can be used even quantitatively as well as qualitatively.
for - definition - anthropocene - post rejection definition - future work - even though it's been rejected as a geological epoch, due to so many uses of it, it still needs a proper definition
Ross Douthat described this line of thinking in an interview this year with Jonathan Keeperman, a.k.a. “L0m3z,” a right-wing publisher who helped popularize the term “the longhouse”
Nice to see "The Longhouse" mentioned in here
solar power has followed a pattern known as Wright's Law
for - definition - Wright's Law - technology becomes cheaper as we build more of it - solar power - following Wright's law
Epistemia
for - definition - epistemia - when linguistic plausibility starts replacing verification and the form of knowledge substitutes for the labor of knowing - to - paper - The simulation of judgment in LLMs - https://hyp.is/2DatBM05EfCy-DM_S__1kg/www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518443122
computational sense-making
for - definition - computational sensemaking
recursive self-improvement threshold
for - definition - recursive self-improvement threshold
chatbait
for - definition - chatbait
narcissism deficiency,
for - definition - narcism deficiency
pretraumatic stress disorder
for - definition - pre traumatic stress disorder
under the hood bias
for - definition - under the hood bias
omniscient
Having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight
I don't think Intelligence maps the "Omniscient". Like we as humans all have distinct intelligences.
Wait unless you want to go full Schizo, The First of the Seven Hermetic Principals is Mentalism.
"The All is Mind; the Universe is Mental." —The Kybalion
Intelligence is a byproduct of the mind. And if the universe is a mind intelligence is Omniscient.
I still don't think this use of the word intelligence maps to human sovereignty in a useful way. Intelligence is ones capacity to model the world to make predictions. It's the decision making process we use as resource meaning searching agents.
bodhisattva
When someone attains Enlightenment in Buddhism, just like the Buddha himself
orthonormal
IntelligenceTheory
for - definition - Intelligence Theory - a physics of how information is processed to create value and persistence - definition - Intelligent Economics - the first application of Intelligence Theory
Future Three: Human Symbiosis
for - definition - Human Symbiosis - This is a future in which AI works for every individual human being. - This is not the default and we have to fight for it if we want it.
Future One: Digital Feudalism.
for - definition - digital feudalism - question - similar to techno-feudalism? - This is an AI future in which a small group of elites control the AI of humanity. - There is a Universal Basic Income but it is just enough to survive, not enough to flourish. - This is the default future. Everything is headed this way right now.
Future Two: The Great Fragmentation
for - definition - The Great Fragmentation - An AI future in which nation states compete with each other for AI resources and create AI silos. - This is already happening.
Abundance Trap
for - definition - abundance trap
The Thousand-Day Window
for - definition - 1,000 day window - definition - thousand day window
munificence
The OED defines "munificence" as: The quality of being munificent; great generosity or liberality in giving.
The word is used for a mysterious Count showing that the Duke is aware that his story may have been off-putting, and he must now save face by praising his new socio-political target. However, to use a word that is antithetical to who the Duke is draws larger parallels between who he associates with, who he pretends to be, and who he really is. The Duke is not giving in the sense that he should be praised, he is giving in the sense that gives people reasons to fear him. By praising this Count's munificence, he can downplay his own lack of it.
unco
bean
Bean: Scots for "in good condition," "comfortable," or "well-stocked"
puir
Puir in modern Scots (from 1700 onward) can mean either a "pauper or beggar", or "someone in considerable need of help". While this definition is also true for older Scots, there was also a secondary definition - one that meant "guiltless" or "free from moral corruption". With this older definition in mind, this line comes to have a similarly twofold meaning; one in which all the poor will die at the careless hands of the rich, but also one where the poor working-class are the class of purity, while the gentry are corrupt.
Gude guide me
In Scots, "gude" can be a form of exclamation, similar to "God God!" or "Lord have Mercy". The phrase also shows up in works by Sir Walter Scott, such as The Antiquary and St. Ronan's Well; see entry 5
niggard
From the Oxford English Dictionary: (noun) A mean, stingy, or parsimonious person; a miser; a person who only grudgingly parts with, spends, or uses up anything. Also in extended use with reference to emotion, etc.
Truth must fire her minute guns.
From the OED: a gun fired at intervals of a minute, esp. at a funeral.
Cook uses this as an analogy for how often workers and laborers must voice their concerns before their employers will listen to them.
gaffer
According to the OED, there are multiple potential meanings for this term when this poem was written. It could have been a general term of address, especially for an older man or it could have been a way to refer to a master, governor, or foreman. This stanza itself does not make the distinction clear, but considering the focus in the third stanza on "men of fourscore" (line 23) it could be the first definition; however, a foreman or master would produce the image of control Winter has over the speaker.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/gaffer_n?tab=meaning_and_use#3371962
verily
"Verily" means a matter of truth. In this line, Guenevere is asserting her honestly to Sir Gauwaine, yet he still continues to doubt his queen's statement. Afterword, Guenevere's tone has then shifted from firm and confident to resigned.
They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, —
Although the working class had very little of worldly goods, its family unit was quite close. One main reason was they had to share a small space as living quarters. Another reason was children often working alongside their parents. All the children were viewed as a potential source of income so the family strived together as a unit to make ends meet. The close knit working class family was a sharp contrast to the wealthy Victorians. Usually their children were left in care of nannies or governesses. The higher echelon of society had little time to spare for their kids yet had high expectations of them. Even Winston Churchill said he could recall every hug he ever had from his mother.
The difference between the classes here is not immediately discernible for modern readers with just the line describing children leaning on their mothers. In Victorian England, the rich and middle-class did not handle their own children.
Check out https://victorianchildren.org/victorian-child-labor/ for more interesting facts.
Tohono Odom Community Action
for - definition - TOCA - Tohono Oldom Community Action group - in 1996, started collecting ancient seed lines from elders who had saved them
tapawi.
for - definition - tapawi
Childe
The term “childe” denotes “a young man of noble or gentle birth,” often used in medieval romances to mark a youth on the threshold of knighthood (“Childe”). Browning’s choice to invoke this archaic title primes readers to expect an epic of honor and questing, with Roland acting as a figure of destiny. However, the poem immediately undermines that expectation as heroic promise collapses into moral exhaustion, distrust, and futility. By invoking a marker of chivalric quest and then denying its fulfillment, Browning recasts the “childe” as a weary survivor meaninglessly stumbling through desolation. The ironic reframing of quest-romance conventions contributes to the poem’s long tradition of reinterpretation, as later writers and artists seized on Roland as a model of perseverance in a broken world.
Benignant
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), benignant is an adjective that means showing kindly feelings towards inferiors and has a sense of condescension.
These reusable components that are unstyled but encapsulate their behavior set are known as Headless UI components
Starting from so-called 'Headless UI components' seems to me a 'no-brainer' especially when tools like ShadCN is not only built on top of tech that Agentic dev tools are familiar with, ShadCN itself is also something Agents (in my experience) are well versed in.
for - Degrees of Urbanization - definition - city
for - definition - city - degree of urbanization
pluralistic ignorance
for - definition - pluralistic ignorance - climate crisis
IndyVers/Web/Net
for - Indyweb dev - recommendation - definition - Indyweb, Indyverse, Indynet - you should really properly define each of these to avoid confusion
civilian labor corps
for - definition - civilian labor corp - future of work - there will have to be new labor pools in the economy that free market has ignored to date - caretakers for the elderly - climate adaptation - affordable housing
the prime age rate is still very high. It's around 83%. That's the one that the so-called market follows. It's built into every hedge fund, every money market, every asset manager analysis. It's also the one that economists and policy makers care about
for - definition - prime age rate - an important rate to follow for economics
Black English is the creation of the black diaspora.
Term + my working definition:
Black English = a language formed within the Black diaspora in the U.S., emerging from shared necessity and community, not merely a “dialect.”
Why this matters: Centers origin and legitimacy for concept map.
as designers of meaning, language architects carefully considerhow to work with their own languages and voice for the most successfulcommunication in a specific situation (25).
Term + my working definition:
Language architects = writers who intentionally design with multiple language resources for a given audience/situation.
Why this matters for my theme: Positions students as intentional designers, not error-correctors.
An approach that resists monolingual ideology,translingualism views our different and varied language practices as crit-ical in inquiring, supporting, and sustaining the full range of richness inour voices (Horner and Alvarez).
Term + my working definition:
Translingualism = resisting one-language norms by leveraging the full range of a writer’s language practices.
Why this matters for my theme: It names the orientation that re-frames “academic writing” around plurality.
Code meshing is the new code switching; it’s mulitdialectalism and pluralingual-ism in one speech act, in one paper.
Term + my working definition:
Code meshing = blending dialects/languages/rhetorical styles together in the same utterance or paper.
Why this matters for my theme: It’s the central practice Young advances.
Standard language ideologyis the belief that there is one set of dominant language rules that stem from a singledominant discourse (like standard English) that all writers and speakers of Englishmust conform to in order to communicate effectively.
Term + my working definition:
Standard language ideology = the belief in one dominant, mandatory set of English rules everyone must follow.
Why this matters for my theme: Names the system Young critiques.
Dialect literature questions "sociolinguistic wholeness" (51).
Term + my working definition:
Dialect literature = writing that uses non-standard varieties to challenge the idea of a single, unified “proper” language.
Why this matters for my theme: Supports the claim that Bambara’s AAVE disrupts linguistic hierarchy.
In Toni Cade Bambara's short story, "The Lesson" (1972), the narrator, Sylvia, speaks in African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
Term + my working definition:
AAVE = a vernacular dialect associated with African American communities that carries cultural identity and rhetorical power in the story.
Why this matters for my theme: Establishes AAVE as the story’s linguistic frame and vehicle for meaning.
AAVE also embodies Sylvia's and Bambara's ability to question their society and to resist pressure to conform to the dominant culture.
Term + my working definition:
AAVE = a vernacular dialect associated with African American communities that carries cultural identity and rhetorical power in the story.
Why this matters for my theme: Establishes AAVE as the story’s linguistic frame and vehicle for meaning.
That’s why we have a standardized language in the first place.
Term + my working definition:
Standardized language = shared norms that enable mutual understanding across diverse dialect users.
Why this matters for my theme: It grounds the claim that SAE reduces cross-audience miscommunication.
The word “standard” here is not prescriptive. It does not refer to a flag we must all salute. Rather, it simply describes accepted norms — in this case, accepted in the workplace by college-educated professionals.
Term + my working definition:
Standard American English = the accepted workplace dialect among college-educated professionals.
Why this matters for my theme: It frames SAE as pragmatic convention, not moral superiority.
moral occult
Melodrama is a rhetorical frame build around sharp moral distinctions, emotional amplification, and polarized conflict.
non-conscious cognition
for - definition - non-conscious cognition - adjacency - non-conscious cognition - Michael Levin - goal seeking activity - adjacency - Michael Levin - N. Katherine Hayles
planetary cognitive ecology.
for - definition - planetary cognitive ecology
Hayles is more interested in cognitive hybridisation – a cognition that is distributed through “dynamic cognitive flows between human, animal and machine
for - definition - cognitive hybridisation - a cognition that is distributed through dynamic cognitive flows between human, animal and machine - - N. Katherine Hayles
technogenesis
for - definition - technogenesis - the continuous reciprocal causality between human bodies and technics - N. Katherine Hayles - adjacency - technology - language - human evolution - Deep Humanity - Technology does have a huge impact on human evolution - As the book The Inheritors demonstrates, language is perhaps the most far-reaching human technology of all and it affects our evolution in profound ways
Katherine Hayles' concept of "distributed cognition"
for - definition - distributed cognition - to - article - N. Katherine Hayles: “We need a more comprehensive view of cognition” - https://hyp.is/Jc98ArsHEfClKP-8MkzNoA/lab.cccb.org/en/katherine-hayles-we-need-a-more-comprehensive-view-of-cognition/ -
atavism
for - definition - atavism - Atavism is the reappearance of an ancestral trait in an individual after it has been absent for several generations. - Nice word!
García (2009b) described translanguaging as “an important educationalpractice – to construct understandings, to make sense of the world and of the academic material, tomediate with others, and to acquire other ways of languaging” (p. 135).
Quoted definition: García explains that translanguaging is “an important educational practice…to acquire other ways of languaging” (qtd. in Bisai and Singh 4). Why it matters: Authoritative definition I’ll use for my “Key quote”.
for - definition - city - definition degree of urbanization - UN Statistical Commission report 2020 - from - there are 10,000 cities on planet Earth - https://hyp.is/91Rx7LgAEfCT6ytaqg9C9Q/nextcity.org/urbanist-news/there-are-10000-cities-on-planet-earth-half-didnt-exist-40-years-ago
summary - This 2020 report was commissioned by the UN Statisticial Commission to develop a robust, standardized definition of cities, towns and rural communities (villages) to aid in international comparison of human settlements
Grid cell classification
for - definition - degree of urbanization - definition - grid cell classification - definition - urban centre - definition - dense urban cluster - definition - semi-dense urban cluster - definition suburban or peri-urban cells - definition - rural cluster - definition - low density rural grid cells - definition - very low density rural grid cells
The degree of urbanisationclassification defines cities, towns and semi-dense areas, and rural areas.
for - definition - degree of urbanization - a UN Statistical Commission classification that standardizes the definition of city, town and semi-dense areas, and rural areas - definition - city - definition - town - definition - rural area
for - definition - city - towns and cities - to - UN Statistical Commission Report - https://hyp.is/Y4mBcrgGEfCKeB-o1NPMjA/unstats.un.org/UNSDWebsite/statcom/session_52/documents/BG-4a-DEGURBA_Manual-E.pdf
summary - A new definition of cities settles an outstanding ambiguity in urban planning - what is the definition of a city? - Defined as a location with minimum population of 50,000 and population density of 1,500 people / square kilometers, it turns out there are 10,000 cities on the planet, and 48% of humanity lives in cities. - 25% of humanity lives in towns, which are future cities
new definition, which defines a city as a contiguous geographic area with at least 50,000 inhabitants at an average population density of 1,500 people per square kilometer
for - definition - city - a geographic area with - at least 50,000 inhabitants - an average population density of 1,500 people/square kilometer - stats - 25% of people live in towns - 48 % of people live in cities - 25% of people live in villages - towns and cities
Gregory Scruggs about his reporting on a count that puts the world’s total number of cities at 10,000
for - definition - city - stats - cities - 10,000 in the world
Legacy Fund
for - definition - Legacy Fund - Apis & Heritage fund that converts small businesses to worker-owned cooperatives - identify well run businesses that can deliver financial returns via interest and principal repayment. - target businesses with low- and middle-income hourly workers in industries: - construction, - manufacturing, - in-home care - uplifting everyday, hardworking Americans. - Deliver - competitive, - risk-adjusted returns - with rates in the low- to mid-teens - that are comparable to traditional investments for this asset class.
silver tsunami
for - definition - sliver tsunami
employee-led buyout (ELBO)
for - definition - Employee Led Buyout (ELBO)
rancorous
Rancorous: characterized by bitterness or resentment. The word “rancorous” comes from Middle English rancour, Old French rencor, and Late Latin rancor, derived from Latin rancēre, meaning “to stink.” Over time, its meaning shifted from “rottenness” to “bitterness or resentment.” I believe it is used correctly here as the authors are portraying the harsh divisions between Capitalism and Communism.
Mental disorders are conditions characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Definition of mental disorders.
constructive episodic simulation hypothesis
for - definition - Constructive Episodic Simulation Hypothesis - episodic memory is a constructive process that reactivates and reintegrates distributed information across the brain - these same memories can be used in new combinations for novel imagination of the future
autobiographical memory
for - definition - autobiographical memory - how we remember our personal past
‘time’ and‘travel’ may not be defining characteristics.
for definition - Mental Time Travel - Neither Time nor Travel may be defining characteristics of Mental Time Travel - Mental rendering of experience may be the defining characteristic
This ability isknown in contemporary psychology and philosophy as mental time travel
for - definition - Mental Time Travel - ability to look at the past and the future
Mental time travel (MTT
for - definition - Mental Time Travel (MTT) - projecting the self into the past and the future
temporally extended, multimodal representations must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent
for - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent - unapack - MToC - unpack - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - multiple sense inputs associated with an event - We could think about it from the perspective of Thousand Brain Theory and cortical columns integrating sense inputs - Do these create memory structures? - Those memory structures must be salient to goal-seeking activity, especially for fitness and survival of the organism
question - memory - evolution - goal-seeking - Is it possible that consciousness emerged early on in our species evolutionary history in the context of memories of multimodal sensory structures that help us achieve goal-seeking activity? - Then extra affordances of memory and consciousness could have evolved and diversified into a wide variety of non-traditional goal-seeking behaviors.
when we recognize the dream as a dream while still dreaming—is known as a lucid dream
for - definition - lucid dream
Daniel Dennett’s Multiple Drafts theory of consciousness
for - definition - Multiple Drafts theory of consciousness - - Daniel Dennett
Perceptual reality monitoring theory
for - definition - perceptual reality monitoring theory - a theory that seeks to explain the difference between - the perception of external reality and - internal imagination or dreaming
memory theory of consciousness (MToC).
for - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness (MToC) - The very awareness we have of sensory analysis, of perception, is based on the operation of this memory system. - In other words, the sensory information that constitutes an event is assembled at encoding and consequently can be remembered later.
constitutive
for - definition - constitutive view of language
Platonic Space
for - definition - Platonic Space - a structured, non-physical space of patterns, - such as the properties of mathematical objects, - perhaps other, higher-agency patterns that we detect as forms of - anatomy, - physiology, and - behavior - in the biosphere. - Thus, the contents of this space may inform (in-form) events in our physical world (constraining physics, and enabling biology).
the electric face
for - definition - electric face - electric profiling of early embryos - that predict facial features - platonic?
level environment.
for - definition - level environment - the level environment for each agent at that respective local level of a multi-level, hierarchical intelligent system
tag the t agent framework t
for - definition - TAG - Tame AGent framework
we don't tell the cells explicitly to uh contract or relax
for - adjacency - inter level communication - environmental steering - this is very interesting (and obvious) but far from trivial. - adjacency - meditation - interlevel communication - enlightenment? - could we naturalistically frame meditation that leads to non dual awareness, or enlightenment - as being a way for higher level agents - to get in touch with / communicate with - lower level agents - in a multi-agent environment?
question - could we interpret enlightenment as an ecosystem goal of intentional whole system environmental steering? This suggests a new term: - new definition - intentional whole system environmental steering - when environmental steering is intentional done at the highest level for the wellbeing of every level - The author uses the example of hunger as being a high level experience driven by lower level needs - This could qualify as an intentional whole system environmental steering so the term doesn't distinguishing enlightenment drive as anything special. We need some other distinguishing quality
the way the levels control each other is not through direct control but is through environmental steing.
for - definition - environmental steering - interlevel communications via environmental steering - interlevel control - interlevel communications
multi-level cognition
for - definition - multi-level cognition
A demand schedule is a table that shows the quantities of a good or service demanded at different prices during a particular period, all other things unchanged.
Les souverainistes et les fédéralistes se contredisent les uns les autres à propos des questions de savoir si l’appartenance du Québec au Canada lui a été profitable ou désavantageuse et si la souveraineté est indispensable au plein développement du Québec ou lui serait néfaste.
La manière dont cet exemple diffère de celui présenté ci-haut, quant à la différence entre les argumentations des positions face à la souveraineté du Québec, n'est pas claire. Peut-être une définition plus claire de ce qu'est un contre-argument pourrait-elle faciliter la compréhension.
Les tenants des deux positions considèrent de façon exclusive la dénotation qu’ils admettent. Ils ne traitent pas de la dénotation retenue par les tenants de la position contraire. Sans contre-argumentation, leur débat est asymétrique et se déroule sans échange.
Cet exemple est clair en ce qui concerne l'asymétrie, mais la question du contre-argument demeure un peu vague. L'interlocuteur A doit-il lui-même fournir un contre-argument à son point, ou élaborer sa position de manière à admettre ou intégrer des contre-arguments (c'est ce que vous semblez suggérer plus haut) ou est-ce plutôt à l'interlocuteur B de tenter de comprendre le point de vue et l'argument de A afin de soumettre un contre-argument?
C’est par exemple le cas de certaines occurrences du débat sur l’avortement quand ses promoteurs invoquent le droit des femmes à disposer de leur corps et ses opposants le droit à la vie du fœtus sans que les uns et les autres traitent de la justification du clan opposé.
Dans ce cas spécifique, qu'est-ce qui fait que les positions avancées sont des arguments et non des opinions?
diversement appréciées.
Je pense qu'il faudrait peut-être commencer par expliciter le but admis d'un débat, qui semble sous-entendu ici comme un processus de discussion dans le but de rallier son interlocuteur·ice à son « avis » (le terme d'opinion étant ici délicat). Il semble que le débat peut en effet occuper d'autres fonctions, comme le divertissement de son public, la formation à l'argumentation rhétorique ou simplement constituer une manière d'informer des individus sur les positions principales tenues autour d'un enjeu de société.
permanent dipole
a Permanent dipole is a molecule which has an uneven distribution of electrons. When atoms in a molecule have different electronegativities, electrons are pulled towards one atom. Example: H2O aka Water - Oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen, thus pulls the shared electrons closer to itself, giving it a partial negative charge. This. along with its bent shape creates permanent negative and positive charges at opposite ends.
from - youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - A neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - Alex Gomez-Marin - a third is born between two in conversation
comment
this challenges by skeptics by dogmatic skeptics another very pernicious dogmatic skepticism these skeptics that are skeptical about everything except their own doubts and their own beliefs t
for - definition - dogmatic skepticism
like taking promisory materialism and giving it a a loan for a 100 more years
for - adjacency - promissory note - Andy 100 years for materialism - definition - promissory materialism
First, rather than focusing on media, the definition focused on“the design and use of messages which control the learning process” (p. 38). Moreover, thedefinition statement identified a series of steps that individuals should undertake in designing andusing such messages. These steps, which included planning, production, selection, utilization, andmanagement, are similar to several of the major steps often associated with what has becomeknown as systematic instructional design (more often simply referred to as instructional design
This is a misconception I had myself--thinking of instructional technologies as a medium rather than processes. Already beginning to shift my understanding of the subject.
substitutional and interstitial.
In Crystal defects there are either imperfections that change crystal properties by swapping the atom (substitutional) or squeeze in an atom (interstitial). Example of substitutional: Brass. Cu + Zn. Copper atoms are replaced by zinc atoms, they are similar size so they substitute to make a stronger mental.
Example of Interstitial defects: Steel. Smaller carbon atoms squeeze into holes between iron atoms. This forms steel and makes it harder and stronger than iron alone.
it's very intelligent to minimize surprise
for - explanation - why minimising surprise is a good definition of intelligence - Donald Hoffman - it's very intelligent to minimize surprise - I'm surprised all the time - I'm pretty stupid right, I don't understand the world very well - but if I'm NOT surprised, it's like I've got a really good model especially if I'm doing lots of stuff in the world and I'm almost never surprised - boy am I I'm really intelligent! - So, you can see why that's a really good principle for trying to build an AI, - not just finding correlations between everything, - but really something deeper.
learning by ostensive definition.
for - definition - learning by ostensive definition - adjacency - ostensible definition - parents - external proxy - children's private experiences - This is a very deep insight and important point - Parents are stewards of culture and they lead their children into a world of shared names - It is important to note that - the parent who teaches the child the name for some aspect of reality - only ever has a proxy to the child's private experience of reality - That proxy is the externally observed behaviour of the child - In fact, we fundamentally only ever have public external proxies to the private, "inner" lives of others
The transverse plane is the plane that divides the body or organ horizontally into upper and lower portions.
Transverse plane
The frontal plane is the plane that divides the body or an organ vertically into an anterior (front) portion and a posterior (rear) portion.
Frontal plane
The sagittal plane is the plane that divides the body or an organ vertically into right and left sides.
Sagittal plane
A plane is an imaginary two-dimensional surface that passes through the body.
Plane
Anterior (or ventral) describes the front or direction toward the front of the body. The toes are anterior to the foot. Posterior (or dorsal) describes the back or direction toward the back of the body. The popliteus is posterior to the patella. Superior (or cranial) describes a position above or higher than another part of the body proper. The orbits are superior to the oris. Inferior (or caudal) describes a position below or lower than another part of the body proper; near or toward the tail (in humans, the coccyx, or lowest part of the spinal column). The pelvis is inferior to the abdomen. Lateral describes the side or direction toward the side of the body. The pollex (thumb) is lateral to the digits. Medial describes the middle or direction toward the middle of the body. The hallux (big toe) is the medial toe. Proximal describes a position in a limb that is nearer to the point of attachment or the trunk of the body. The brachium is proximal to the antebrachium. Distal describes a position in a limb that is farther from the point of attachment or the trunk of the body. The crus is distal to the femur. Superficial describes a position closer to the surface of the body. The skin is superficial to the bones. Deep describes a position farther from the surface of the body. The brain is deep to the skull.
Directional Terms
I then mention that the Lat
The Latin root of “read” — lego, legere — means both “to read” and “to choose.” This makes me think about how every act of reading already involves selection and leaving things out.
Planetarity, and two forms of diversity,
for - definition - planetarity - Michel Bauwens - tension between two forces - regionalism vs - global virtual domains - phygital domains - question - how do we reconcile - phygital vs regional?
my hypothesis of the Pulsation of the Commons, in times of civilizational degradation, the commons return, and in dark ages, commons institutions even become hegemonic.
for - definition = pulsation of the commons - Michel Bauwens - Throughout history, - in periods of dark ages - capitalism (self interest) rules - in times of civilizational degradation - even commons institutions can be compromised
Mode A (gifting and commoning), to a higher level of complexity
for - definition - Mode A - gifting and commoning, to a higher level of complexity
Civilization as a master-slave paradigm regarding nature.
for - new definition - biosphere-scale inequality - adjacency - metaphor - master-slave - resources - externalisation - Michel articulated an insightful metaphor to describe our modern relationship with nature - To see nature as a resource is a species-selfish (anthropomorphic) perspective - which enables - resource extraction - exploration - externalization and ultimately - the climate crisis - Humans are seem as the master and all of nature our slave - This transcends human-scale inequality - it is biosphere-scale inequality
religious communities were trans-local
for - quote - religion was trans-local - Michel Bauwens - new definition - trans-religion - a universal religion that transcends existing religions - one of the dominant theories of - anthropology, - human origins and - human evolution - is that our species had is origins in Africa and spread out to the rest of the world - The interesting thing is that if this iis indeed true, then we are all distant relatives in the family of humanity - and the various regional cultures that developed in isolation until relatively recently when modern transportation technology brought us into contact, are all related - third could be a unifying narrative that could motivate a universal human spirituality that re-integrates a fragmented modern humanity
post-civilizational shift
for - definition - post. civilisational shift
for - definition - reverse Robin Hood - steal from the poor to give to the rich - adjacency - Trump policy - reverse Robin Hood
Behavioral economists have a name for the steps we take to guard against temptation: a “Ulysses pact.” That’s when you take some possibility off the table during a moment of strength in recognition of some coming moment of weakness:
Def
We Fight Silencing Mechanisms
for - definition - silencing mechanism - - methods that individuals and organizations employ to intimidate others into silence to hide illegal activity such as sexual harm
– c’est-à-dire indépendamment de leur contenu, de leur format, de leur matérialité antérieure –,
Peut-être cette brève définition aurait-elle davantage sa place ci-haut, lors de la première mention des algorithmes « agnostiques », dans la section « Une remédiation des collection par-delà les logiques documentaires ? »
algorithme d’humanités numériques peut être, dit-on, ’agnostique’.
Il est ici question d'un algorithme d'humanités numériques « agnostique ». Toutefois, vous n'offrez une définition que plus tard, dans le §4 de la section « Les données liquides ». Pourquoi ne pas le définir lors de la première mention, même si ce n'est qu'en note de bas de page?
Gestaltic Perception
for - definition - gestaltic perception - adjacency - pre-linguistic - feral children - gestaltic perception
What is an agent? read more in detail
using emissions-based effective radiative forcing (ERF) rather than global warming potentials to compare emissions
for - definition - ERF effective radiative forcing
Copyfair
for - definition - copyfair - self-protective alliances that prevent the open digital commons from the extraction of private platforms
cosmo-local constructive networks
for - definition - cosmo-local constructive networks - a commons alternative to political parties
‘Chambers of the Commons’
for - definition - Chamber of the Commons - integrating commons with generative businesses
‘Assemblies of the Commons’,
for - definition - assembly of the commons - unite citizens
stewardship
The job of supervising or taking care of something, such as an organization or property.
if you were to sequence the genome, what you would find out is that it's 100% homo sapiens.
for - definition - anthrobots - artificially created cellular life form made from human genetic material
Kinematic self-replication
for - definition - kinematic replication in Xenobots - Michael Levin
this is this massive latent morph space that you can explore with exactly the same hardware.
for - definition - latent morphospace - Michael Levin
You're you're literally watching um uh um models of the future battle it out in in the excitable medium of of cells and then whoever wins that's you know that's what happens
for - definition - cellular futuring (mine) - when cells come together to decide what higher level anatomical structure they will collectively form in the future - example - multi-scale metaphor - cellular futuring - cells are deciding on the most compelling message of who they should join in order to form a higher level anatomical structure - this is much like human organisms who meet and decide what their collective action is going to be - both are exercises in goal-oriented futuring
Picasso tadpoles
for - adjacency - intelligence - testing William James definition of inteligence - Picasso tadpole - artificially mixed up initial tadpole embryo state - to normal frog state - collective intelligence has problem-soving ability that chooses a different pathway to achieve the same goal
William James' definition.
for - definition - intelligence - William James - The ability to reach the same goal by different means - adjacency - intelligence - goals
observation - by this definition, goals are intrinsic to life itself
were driven to the right
for - definition - crunchy - postmodern electrorate that is anti-vaccine, pro-bodily autonomy, ecology and health conscious - role reversal - crunchy - to - MAHA
Freud believed that thoughts, feelings, and behaviors unacceptable to the ego were defended against by disowning and projecting them
for - definition - projection - Freud - disowning the internal
Jung referred to these disowned parts of self as ‘the shadow’
for - definition - the shadow - Jung
Kant was also the first to coin the notion of Weltanschauung or worldview, in his Critique of Pure Reason in the late eighteenth century.
for - definition - worldview - Critique of Pure Reason - Kant - adjacency - Kant - post modernism
noumenon (the thing in itself) and the phenomenon (how we perceive it)
for - definition - noumenon - Kant - definition - phenomenon - Kant
Zeitgeist, the ‘ecosystem of worldviews’ that our cultural landscape consists of.
for - definition - Zeitgeist - adjacency - Zeitgeist - ecosystem of worldviews
Weber conceived of different categories of worldviews as ‘ideal-types’
for - definition - ideal-types - categories of worldviews - Max Weber
Weber argued that a worldview functions as an overarching system of meaning-making
for - definition - worldview - Max Weber - overarching sensemaking system of meaning making
Virtue
for - definition - virtuewash
radically new kinds of texts”
defining text (as per Google): a book or other written or printed work, regarded in terms of its content rather than its physical form. defining printed work (as per Google): any written or illustrated material produced through the process of printing, which includes books, pamphlets, newspapers, and other forms of printed media We have to define what a text is and can be, to understand the ways in which they can and have changed/evolved.
writing could be something more than a series of words strung into sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and monographs
How can we redefine "writing" in the 20th century? Is this a conversation that exists only in feminist-theory based, higher-ed., environments? Is this redefining writing completely, adding new facets to the definition, or reworking the original?
Digitaler ZwillingNeben dem Begriff des Digitalen Schattens ist der Begriff des DigitalenZwillings verbreitet. Der Digitale Schatten überführt zunächst den rea-len Produktionsprozess in die virtuelle Welt. Der Digitale Zwilling kanndarauf aufbauend durch ein Prozessmodell und Simulation ein möglichstidentisches Abbild der Realität liefern (Bauernhansl et al. 2016, S. 23)
Digitaler Zwilling Definition
coordination engine
for - definition - coordination engine - The coordination engine is - the underlying pattern of how people coordinate their actions with one another and - the material flows around them, through space and time. - It’s about the economy in a wide sense: about how human activities link up with one another. - An economy is basically a pattern of coordination of human agency over space and time.
purification engine
for - definition - purification engine - a purification engine, such as the Postfaustian or Postmodern metamemes, are cultural re-organizations of a particular mode of extraction, but they do not reinvent the mode of extraction itself.
coordination engine
for - definition - coordination engine - A coordination engine is a way to create and distribute value, a way of extraction
Brendan Graham Dempsey explains metamemes as follows:
for - definition - metameme - Brendan Graham Dempsey - like worldview - Collective intelligence shapes meme networks — called “Metamemes” — which individual self-conscious minds “download” to better navigate their environment. - Dempsey's definition makes salient the related Deep Humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt - adjacency - metameme - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - to - Substack - article - Toxic polarization is killing us. Why a new worldview might save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us
metameme
for - definition - metameme - A network of ideas that fit together, and that forms a more or less coherence framework to view reality and thus, to organize or respond to the world.
meta-modernism in contrast, as the ‘meta’ modifier indicates, is a step further, it is ‘beyond’ modernity. In other words, it does not merely critique modernity, but creates something that replaces or augments it.
for - definition - metamodernity - Hanzi Freinacht (a pseudonym for Daniel Görtz and Emil Ejner Friis), - while postmodernity questions modernity, metamodernity advocates something that replaces it - comparison - postmodernity vs - metamodernity
communism of production
for - definition - communism of production
banausos
for - definition - banausos - blue collar workers in ancient Rome
saturation hypothesis
for - definition - saturation hypothesis
Sensate from Ideate epochs in human history
for - definition - sensate epoch - materialistic definition - ideate epoch - spiritual
Kama muta is a Sanskrit term meaning “moved by love.
for - deep listening - definition - Kama Muta - Deep Humanity - deep listening - paper - Harmonizing Hearts: High-Quality Listening and Kama Muta Among Listeners and Speakers
for - definition - cogress - Medium article - Cogress - Part 2 - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - James Gien Wong - from - Medium article - Cogress - Part 1 - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - James Gien Wong - https://hyp.is/_Nyg2DF_EfCBeu_iuDroYg/medium.com/@gien_SRG/human-cogress-part-1-5159a575e1c4 - to - Stop Reset Go hypothesis annotations - progress trap - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - General - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap
.All of those processes are , mu-ishi-wa, one side that serves as both sides
for - definition - mu-ishi-wa - one side - serves both sides - lots of examples follow - adjacency - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt - mu-ishi-wa
meme - one side serves both sides
adjacency - individual / collective gestalt - self / other gestalt - mu-ishi-wa - The concept of mu-ishi-wa is similiar to the Deep Humanity concept of self / other gestalt and individual / collective gestalt - in the sense that a visibly autonomous-appearing self or individual is invisibly intertwingled with it's opposite, the other or the collective