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    1. In-dividuate means “not-divided.” According to Carl Jung, individuation is aprocess on one hand of becoming whole and on the other of circumambulating

      for - definition - individuation - Carl Jung - process of becoming whole and circumambulating your life

    2. individuation

      for - definition individuation - Carl Jung - process of integration

    3. Our time is a time for crossing barriers, for erasing old categories—for probingaround. When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised,put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

      for - quote - Indyweb - adjacency - Marshal McLuhan

    4. Jean Gebser (1905–1973), a German-born, naturalized Swiss citizen, is bestknown for his magnum opus The Ever-Present Origin

      for - book - The Ever-Present Origin - Jean Gebser - to - youtube - The Integral Way of Jean Gebser with Jeremy Johnson - https://hyp.is/gnHv-izuEfCCBZObkKymvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXf2jtl0ndc

      comment - I hadn't heard of Gebser before and found this chapter difficult to understand - I found a good introductory video on Geber's work, especially the 5 stages and their meaning - Click on the youtube link above for a good introduction to Gebser's ideas

    5. These five structures ofconsciousness—the archaic, magic, mythic, mental, and integral structures—

      for - adjacency - consciousness - spirituality - Gebser's 5 structures of consciousness - archaic - magic - mythic - mental - integral

    6. to what its purpose might have been. By looking at TPM and Gebser together,we can begin to get out of our linguistic ruts and use the ladder (ordinarylanguage) to see beyond the ladder.

      for - meme - use the ladder to see beyond the ladder

    7. described thus: “The key is to hold two perspectives simultaneously, to lookat the whole painting while seeing each brush stroke, to consider the wholebody when just the foot hurts, to be here now and to be everywhere every-when.” 204 This requires the ability to have both a local and a global perspectivesimultaneously. To live from that expanded awareness, we need to find ways

      for - quote - cosmolocal - Lisa E. Maroski - aligned terminology - everywhere everywhen - example - individual / collective gestalt - expanded self -overcoming instinctive and learned othering quote - cosmolocal - Lisa E. Maroski - The key is to hold two perspectives simultaneously, - to look at the whole painting while seeing each brush stroke, - to consider the whole body when just the foot hurts, - to be here now and to be everywhere everywhen.” - This requires the ability to have both a local and a global perspective simultaneously.

      comment - This requires a major gestalt switch - It is a radical deorientation to absorb the other into our expanded self - If we have othered our entire life, it is radical to absorb that which we have othered as our own self nature - We even have to overcome instinctive evolutionary adaptations of othering that enable individuals to survive

    8. be nothing “out there” to refer to, only distinctions within my-expansive-self.

      for - nondual re-interpretation - of "self" - expanded self

    9. ivein paradox might be uncomfortable, even terrifying, at first, given our culturalabhorrence of it. To recategorize that which our current category structureconsiders an “object” (e.g., a tree, rock, or your computer) as a subject-object,we need to revise deeply held assumptions, beliefs, and ways of relating toall types of “others.” For example, we will need to understand the implicitassumption that, when I refer to “that X” (e.g., you, or that tree, or eventhat book), I am referring to an expanded sense of myself as subject-object.

      for - gestalt switch - nondual language - deorient ourselves - true nature of mind practice - language shift - for this to work requires a gestalt switch paradigm shift - it goes beyond intellectual and requires full immersion, not to - re-orient ourselves, but to - de-orient ourselves

    10. and live from the knowing of oneself as a difference-within-unity. To do

      for - equivalency -difference-within-unity - Deep Humanity Individual / Collective gestalt

    11. What Bohm perceived 40 years ago has since been magnified. To be freefrom the constraints of fragmentary worldviews, it is necessary to see how thelanguage we use, especially the father tongue, is deeply enmeshed with andexpressive of a fragmentary worldview

      for - adjacency - question - Daivd Bohm - language - separation - dualism - question - is it at all possible to use language AND have a non fragmentary worldview? - If by fragmentary we mean dualistic, then I do not see how it is even possible.

    12. Consider the consequences of remaining stuck using language that assumesand hence sustains a state of radical differentiation. Jung describes how thedevelopment of consciousness contributed to the corresponding radical dif-ferentiation within language:

      for - quote - adjacency - Carl Jung - consciousness - language - dualism - loss of holism

    13. for - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - book - review - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - adjacency - Lisa's conlanger - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - Indyweb - provenance - Deep Humanity - language BEing journey - author - Lisa E. Maroski - to - post - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - from 'belief' to 'apolief" - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2Fbayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW%2F&group=world

      new trailmark - summary to review - the word "review" may be a better trailmark word than "summary" - At this point, I will replace "summary" with "review" in the case of book or article reviews

      review - Lisa's book is an insightful convergence of an important but ignored subject, the experiential intersection between language and consciousness. - Her understanding that language plays an important role in constructing our reality leads to a bold and novel proposal, especially salient at this time of global poly-meta-perma-meaning crisis. - She proposes that we individually and collectively experiment and explore creating new words and language structures that transcend the limitations of our existing language - If patterns of language usage traps us in outdated conceptual paradigms, then breaking out of these may be challenging, if not impossible, without the creation of new linguistic and language structures. - From a Stop Reset Go and Deep Humanity perpsective, Lisa's proposal for practical experimentation with constructing new languages to unleash new forms of expression is very aligned to Deep Humanity BEing journeys - As I read and annotate Lisa's book, any potential linguistic and language BEing journeys that her words inspired will be recorded for posterity

      Addendum - note from journal - 2025, May 8 - reflections on Lisa's book - asynchronous communication is only one half of indyweb     - the other half is asynchronous REFLECTION AND SYNTHESIS - Effective timebinding requires both     - Annotation captures interpersonal shared ideas     - journalling captures ours own unique synthesis only emerges from asynchronous reflections of our existent associative network of ideas and the newly ingested interpersonal ones - Annotations capture the novel and newly inputted interpersonal ones     - but annotation currently only applies to hypothesis - it needs to expand to realtime meetings such as zoom calls, emails, socials media comments and socials media chats in order to be complete - Until now, there has not been a medium with sufficient set of affordances to unleash the affordances potential in language itself - While digital media has existed and rapidly developed for the past 5 decades,     - employing and leveraging it to unleash the full potential of language itself has not ever been conceived of until the concept of Indyweb arrived - Indeed, we could make the claim that the indyweb is a foundational human technology on the same order as language itself because it completes language, revealing its empty ( shunyata) quality, thereby     - uniting it with the universe itself -  From the unlimited potential of the tacit,     - the limited forms of words emerge, both are 2 sides off the same nondual coin     - and unleashing the full , unrealized potential of language - It is the provenance aspect of the indyweb that provides an automatic trail of all our learning journey, making both the     - individual and     - intertwingled collective evolution of ideas available as records for. timebinding posterity

      • when we feel in a good state of health and wellbeing and absent of any disease
        • we feel when everything is within harmony in our temporary state of being alive
      • Any disease shows us how the diseases-free state is so fragilely constructed
      • disease-free is an and condition of many subsystems working together harmoniously -aspectualizing is creating
        • a perspective,
        • a word
        • an idea
      • the greatest freedom of afforded when we are free of all perspectives
        • for that is when a new perspective can emerge
      • When we cling to words and ideas, we cling to perspectives and aspects of the whole
      • The teaching of one taste is the highest and most subtle teaching - equal taste - and easiest to be misinterpreted
        • because we are anchored in the world of many different tastes and of measurement and scale,
          • where some things are greater than others on our scale
      • Bayo Akomolafe does some language construction - conlangering on his LinkedIn post on the derivation of the word "apolief" from "belief"
    14. polar regions. The melting of sea ice and ice sheets is not palpable to most.” 201Climate change is invisible when we consider ourselves separate from Gaia

      for - adjacency - hyperobject - language of separation - new trailmark format - adjacency

      adjacency - hyperobject -- language of separation - There is another related reason that many people do not value climate crisis - these concepts are hyperobjects - objects so large that they are beyond the scope of evolutionarily evolved salience - language evolved within humans to deal with environmental events that were salient to our immediate survival - the climate crisis is steeped in complex science and applies to the entire planet, something that humans were never evolved to cognitively apprehend

    15. Hence,those who do not inhabit our own information bubble are often invisibleto us, unless we are demonizing them (projecting our shadow onto them)

      for - quote - othering

    16. sense that who I think I am is not who I appear to be. Jung calls this act offacing and accepting of otherness in oneself “integrating the shadow.” One

      for - adjacency - embracing paradox, evolving language! - Jung - integrating the shadow

    17. For a sociocultural shift to happen, individual shifts must occur. Thus,it might be useful to turn to one’s own lived sense of paradox in order toappreciate it in the broader context. How does Kleinian awareness/intuition/comprehension/aperspectivity presentiate in your everyday life? Facing personal

      for - embracing paradox, evolving language!

    18. an ancient Gnostic wisdom text, The Thunder, Perfect Mind

      for - book - The Thunder, Perfect Mind - reminds me of Thich Nhat Hahn's writing, or Rumi's poems

    19. discussed above? In other words, how do we revise logic to grant paradox whereit is required? What new kinds of paradoxical concepts might better expressthe complexities of our ecological, economic, and other post-postmoderncontexts and systems? Is it possible to work them into the syntax of our exist-

      for - adjacency - language - embedding paradox - my poem - To be or not to be, that is the question - To be AND not to be, that is the answer!

    20. for Rosen’s ideas to be fully taken up linguistically would require, as I haveargued, not just semiotic innovation but full-scale sociocultural shift in world

      for - language construction - nondual - Rosen

    21. used to create the problem. To that I would add, can there be a new mindsetif it is necessary to use the language of the old mindset? I suspect that onewill encounter the same limitations of the old mindset. Who can build a new

      for - adjacency - new mindset built on old? - like - scientific breakthrough by forming a new idea

    22. coagulatio

      for - definition - coagulatio - congealing ideas

    23. Different types of leverage points are possible for each infra/exostructureof language. To the extent that each infra/exostructure has its particular way

      for - adjacency - leverage point - language

    24. congealing can take the form of an“aha moment” or a gestalt shift. New conceptual bonds form.

      for - definition - gestalt shift - like - Gyuri - gestalt switch

    25. To find ways to enable full-spectrum language to embrace paradox, itwill be necessary to move into the paradigm of both/and. However, there areno agreed-upon conventions for expressing categories, logic, concepts, andsign-vehicles that partake of both/and-ness. We will need to invent ways toconvey nonduality, interdependent co-arising, and paraconsistency in ordinarylanguage.

      for - language - both / and-ness

    26. For example, the ancient Chinesecharacter Te (Figure 11) is often translated as “virtue” or “integrity.”

      for - language - chinese - character - Te - meaning - language - non-alphabetic - sign vehicle - chinese

    27. ordinarysign-vehicles (words) cannot sufficiently represent an internally complex con-cept, such as Being, that integrates subject and object in a way that retainstheir uniqueness yet also acknowledges their transpermeability. B

      for - question - Being - difficult to represent using normal words - are there examples?

    28. Concept. The term “concept” has differing meanings in various contexts(psychology, linguistics, philosophy). I am using “concept” as an abstractionthat does not reference a thing; rather, a concept establishes a boundary in afield of meaning. One might say that concepts are agreed-upon set bound-aries.

      for - adjacency - concept - boundary

    29. assumptions. For example, “I/you (as a Kleinian unity) within field [love]”

      for - example - I love you - nondual syntax

    30. “Iam writing this chapter.” At the moment I wrote those words in the very first

      for - example - language - assumptions - I am writing this chapter

    31. The metaphors in the passage above are also familiar: RAIN IS AKNIFE that pierces drought. Although the content words that comprise themetaphors have changed a bit, the function words (italicized)—i.e., articles,prepositions, and conjunctions—have not changed through the centuries.184Function words establish the infrastructure of a sentence inside of which themain content words

      for - language - function and content words

    32. istoriography of a word (everyuse of a word and everything that has been said and written about it)

      for - definition - word histiography - like semantic fingerprint / semantic folding - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=semantic+fingerprint - adjacency - word histiography - semantic fingerprint - semantic folding - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - Indyweb - Indranet

      adjacency - between - word histiography - semantic fingerprint - semantic folding - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - Indyweb - Indranet - adjacency relationship - Word histiography is another way to describe a key feature of the Indyweb's Indranet, - semantic fingerprint and - semantic folding - gives rise to the Indyweb / Indranet terminology - symmathesetic fingerprint - symmathesetic folding - The Indyweb enables the Indyvidual to continuously update the word histiography using cluemarks - The key idea of the Indyweb / Indranet is that words are themselves impermanent and in constant flux, their meanings always changing - Until the conception of the Indyweb / Indranet, there has never been a media designed with the capability to reflect that continuous flux, a feature we might denote with the new - neologism - variverbum - words that have constantly changing meaning - adj. variverbilis

    33. the writer/speaker–reader/listener dyad.This is where the implicit sorting of subjects and objects (as

      for - adjacency - writer/speaker - reader/listerner dyad - Indyweb transmitter - receiver

    34. Rosen emphasizes that, if Being surpasses the split between sub-ject and object (as brought out by phenomenology), we cannot meaningfullyexpress Being through a form of writing that implicitly enforces this split.

      for - language - intrinsically dualistic - adjacency - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - language's dualistic nature - adjacency - Rosen - language dualism

      comment - Rosen points out the dualistic nature of language - Like individual living organisms, each word, like each individual organism, splits reality into an inner and an outer - Deep Humanity terminology of the individual / collective gestalt suggests that even though an individual is visibly separate from others, it is nonetheless connected to others invisibly in numerous ways - The visible individual is always only a part of the greater individual / collective gestalt - The individual / collective gestalt terminology applies equally to words as it does to living individuals

    35. perceived by oneself “in here.” In this sense, the world consists of objects outthere in space (the container that holds them) before me as the perceivingsubject.

      for - adjacency - Indyweb dev - natural language - timebinding - parallel vs serial processing - comparison - spoken vs written language - what's also interesting is that spoken language is timebinding, sequential and our written language descended from that, - in spite of written language existing in 2D and 3D space, it inherited sequential flow, even though it does not have to - In this sense, legacy spoken language system constrains written language to be - serial - sequential and - timebound instead of - parallel - Read any written text and you will observe that the pattern is sequential - We constrain our syntax it to "flow" sequentially in 2D space, even though there is absolutely no other reason to constrain it to do so - This also reveals another implicit rule about language, that it assumes we can only focus our attention on one aspect of reality at a time

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    1. this is something very common in G upstairs language to associating um tracing the etymology of language

      for - adjacency - Gebser - tracing etymology of language - Indyweb / Indranet - provenance

    2. for - youtube - The Integral Way of Jean Gebser with Jeremy Johnson - from - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa E. Maroski - https://hyp.is/_Omm2iwzEfCfBt9GThVUqg/ipfs.indy0.net/ipfs/bafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy

    3. he represents this in his writing with the point um it's it's the uh everything is a portal to everything else everything is in relationship with everything else there is nothing that is not in relationship with everything uh one point is a doorway to All Points

      for - quote - one point is a doorway to all points - Jean Gebser - adjacency - Gebser's point - Indyweb's dot - Indranet's dot

    1. To “switch worldviews” then is not like changing glasses. Or running the privileged finger down the golden fonts of a fine restaurant's menu. It is more like entering another ecology entirely. Or being entered. And such an entry can only ever happen with cracks, displacements, hauntings.

      for - adjacency - apolief - Bayo - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - J. Marvin Brown - David Long - This statement is aligned with the Automatic Language Growth school of language learning developed by linguist J. Marvin Brown and continued by David Long - ALG takes the view that language is a happening, an experience and the best way to learn is to engage in the experience the way that an infant of native language does, with no prior experience or knowledge - to - J Marvin Brown - Automatic Language Growth - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

    2. apolief

      for - definition - apolief - Bayo

      analysis - apolief - Example - apolief from belief - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language

    3. What if your sense of self, your seeing, your feeling, your very intelligibility as a “someone” are not possessions within a worldview, but part of an accommodation process issued from it, co-conditioned, emergent, and entangled?

      for - quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - critique - worldview - Bayo - new trailmark - analysis

      quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - What if, instead, worldviews are - not views from worlds - but the ways worlds come into view? - What if your sense of self, - your seeing, - your feeling, - your very intelligibility as a “someone” - are not possessions within a worldview, - but part of an accommodation process issued from it, - co-conditioned, - emergent, and - entangled?

      analysis - Bayo juxtapositions - the normative subject/object dualistic view of a Self having an experience with objects with - a nondualistic view in which self and other, subject and object are two sides of the same seamless coin - The aggregate experience of "many diverse appearances" is imputed to be a "self" that is having these many diverse experiences of appearances - rather than apprehending the totality as an unbroken continuum<br /> - Are we not imaginative enough to break our deep conditioning of Self and other / subject and object and experience the totality of phenomena, instead imputing a self? - The individual "self" is indeed a compelling story because the biological individual inherently - has a distinct, and identifiable though dynamic boundary with its environment - has been bestowed with the evolutionary trait of instinct for survival - and therefore prioritizes securing resources required for its biological continuation - To see beyond this pyscho/physical appearance requires a high level of integration

    4. for - source - Donna Nelham - @Fellowship of the Commons Telegram group zoom meeting - 2025, May 6 - article - Linkedin - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview" - to - article - Substack Annik De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us

    5. I am against 'worldview'.

      for - critique - worldview - Bayo

    1. for - youtube - Breaking Point - Yanis Varoufakis reveals Trump Tariff strategy - Trump's trade and deficit strategy - analysis - Yanis Varoufakis

      summary - Good economic analysis of what Trump is trying to do with his Tariff strategy - Varoufakis points out that Trump's strategy is similar to Nixon's strategy many decades ago but he does not think Trump's strategy will succeed because he cannot completely eliminate the US deficit because it is how the US rentier class makes its huge profits: - Other countries export into US market and use the recycle the US dollars back into US Treasury bonds

    1. in the classroom you want to focus you we're earlier talking about what do you what do you tell students when they first show up right yeah you want to focus on meaning not on language focus on what's happening not on words and phrases and pronunciation all right

      for - natural language acquisition - teaching - focus on meaning, not words - Latest Annotation

    2. science tells us that kids learn better from one from zero from the birth to five years old they're the fastest they're the best at learning model them then just do what they do you can't get better than that

      for - stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning

      comment - ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have

    3. show me any other program that that tries to teach you language for a one to two-year-old that's what we're doing it doesn't compare to teaching a language to a five-year-old we're not there yet

      for - natural language acquisition - age - 2 year old is right age to aim to learn at

      comment - 2 year old age is when an infant learns to hear and speak a spoken language first - reading and writing does not happen until about 5 years of age - When we are learning a new second language, it is therefore appropriate to aim for the same goal as a native 2 year old language user

    4. a wrong guess is a hundred times better than a right answer yeah that's just giving you the reason is a right answer closes your mind a wrong guess you're still open and that's the vital characteristic

      for - quote - natural language acquisition - wrong guess - right answer - adjacency - natural language acquisition - open mind

    5. patience and tolerance for ambiguity

      for - natural language acquisition skills - patience - tolerance for ambiguity - constructing good guesses to meaning

    6. that was the biggest challenge i think we had and still have within uh alg is teachers think they've got to explain the language and they're short cutting the process they're short circuiting the process and they're cheating the student out of a otherwise good experience

      for - adjacency - Socratic method - ALG - natural language acquisition - explanation - infants learning native language

      adjacency - between - Socratic method - natural language acquisition - ALG - explanation - adjacency relationship - When the teacher explains the meaning to the student, - it actually robs the student of the active learning experience of guessing the right meaning - Infants learning their native language for the first time are necessarily in the "deep end" and face discomfort - They (we) are constantly forced to guess and actually actively construct meaning out of the universe of symbols we are being exposed to in a multitude of contexts

    7. that discomfort is a tough one that's the first part you gotta face that and if you're not facing it then you've learned to walk with crutches

      for - natural language acquisition - important role of discomfort

    8. if i cannot adjust to guessing right about meaning i will never learn in this way very well at all

      for - key insight - natural language acquisition - guessing

    9. reading and writing naturally come after speaking only because speaking follows closely on the heels of understanding yeah so what do you focus on build your understanding

      for - language training - answer - to - question - about listening and speaking first

      comments - In human evolution, speaking and listening came long before reading and writing. - Our written language is based on sequential phonetic sounds of our spoken language, so it naturally makes sense to learn the spoken language first

    10. you're just doing listening and we're later gonna do speaking when are we gonna do reading and writing how

      for - question - language training - ALG - listening and speaking first - when does reading and writing appear?

    11. i'm not trained as a linguist

      for - David Long - is not trained as a linguist, yet heads this organization - This already says so much about the minor role that the STUDY of language plays in learning how to FLUENTLY SPEAK the language!

    12. i'm still incredulous when i think of all the people who work really hard to learn a language and then you know the experience is no different than people who don't try much

      for - studying language - doesn't always lead to knowing how to speak the language

    13. our homework is like this is all right bring something made out of wood to class tomorrow and so we get to class and here's all these students putting things of wood out on the table and the hour was spent the teachers would pick up this piece of wood object and talk about it describe it and make up stuff that could be completely insane kinds of things uh but we just have fun with these wood objects

      for - ALG teaching example

    14. you've been doing it online have you found any difficulties translating on translating it to an online system

      for - question - ALG - language training - does it work in an online context?

    15. how did that translate into a classroom situation

      for - question - ALG language training - how does the "experience" approach translate into a classroom situation?

    16. for - natural language acquisition - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - youtube - interview - David Long - Automatic Language Growth - from - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - https://hyp.is/Ls_IbCpbEfCEqEfjBlJ8hw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

      summary - The key takeaway is that even as adults, we have retained our innate language learning skill which requires simply treating a new language as a new, novel experience that we can apprehend naturally simply by experiencing it like the way we did when we were exposed to our first, native language - We didn't know what a "language" was theoretically when we were infants, but we simply fell into the experience and played with the experiences and our primary caretakers guided us - We didn't know grammar and rules of language, we just learned innately

    17. you can short-circuit that by diminishing the experience focusing on a language focusing on a word focusing on a sound or a meaning you miss the experience and you catch a word right and that's that's the whole that's like all of it in a nutshell

      for - common mistake - learning a word is NOT learning a language

      comment - The mistake that most second language approaches take is that it teaches meaning of words but NOT the EXPERIENCE of language

    18. language is an outgrowth of experience so if i was going to give you language what would i do i give you experiences

      for - adjacency - language - phenomenology - language is fundamentally an experience

    19. if you were to distill down to its most basic component what is what is language it's not a phoneme it's not a word or phrase it's not even a meaning of some sound right in its basic component it's a it's a happening it's an aspect or a part of an experience all right this is this is sort of like the key to everything we're doing in alg

      for - quote - language is fundamentally an experience

      quote - language is fundamentally an experience - David Long - if you were to distill down to its most basic component, what is language? - It's not a phoneme - It's not a word or phrase - it's not even a meaning of some sound - In its basic component, it's a happening it's an aspect or a part of an experience - This is the key to everything we're doing in alg (Automatic Language Growth)

    20. as adults we have what we grew up with as young kids the the innate or the natural ability to acquire a language but most of us we've also learned and gained another quite natural ability and that is to learn things on purpose right so and so those two natures do conflict i don't think they fit well together

      for - key insight / quote - innate language learning is in conflict with intentional learning - David Long - Common Human Denominator - learning language

    21. there is something that all humans do naturally even without education yeah and that is learn language

      for - quote - language education - there is something that all humans do naturally even without education, and that is learn language - David Long

    22. some people who are so uh trained in learning on purpose they have a hard time relaxing with anything that's unclear

      for - intention vs relaxing - natural language acquistion

    23. i can never get past the idea of study because what we're doing is not study at all

      for - quote - not study at all - David Long - natural language immersion

    24. no homework no test come and we'll entertain you so you got me you know no idea is this going to work or not but i enjoyed the idea of being entertained rather than the misery of language study

      for - quote - no test, no homework, come and be entertained - David Long

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    1. for - natural language acquisition - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - to - book - From the Outside In - linguist - J. Marvin Brown - https://hyp.is/PjtjBipbEfCr4ieLB5y1Ew/files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED501257.pdf - quote - When I speak in Thai, I think in Thai - J. Marvin Brown

      summary - This video summarizes the remarkable life of linguist J. Marvin Brown, who spent a lifetime trying to understand how to learn a second language and to use it the way a natural language user does - After a lifetime of research and trying out various teaching and learning methods, he finally realized that adults all have the abilitty to learn a new language in the same way any infant does, naturally through listening and watching - The key was to not bring in conscious thinking of an adult and immerse oneself in - This seems like a highly relevant clue to language creation and to linguistic BEing journeys - to - youtube - Interview with David Long - Automatic Language Growth - https://hyp.is/GRPUHipvEfCVEaMaLSU-BA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhIM2Vt-Cc

    1. for - sustainable space heating - mini masonry heater

      summary - extensive DIY information on masonry heaters and other sustainable space heaters

    1. for - youtube - sustainable energy - masonry heater - tempcast - DIY masonry heater kit

      summary - This is one of the videos in a series of youtube videos on the Tempcast DIY masonry heater build - to - first masonry heater build video - https://hyp.is/c81uVCaOEfCf09ulXDjNLg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IKzWqoSDps

    2. this is your bypass damper

      for - sustainable space heating - masonry heater - bypass damper - to bypass the long bench section during startup

    3. this is a damper that we're going to put on here as well so so that you can shut this so that you know cold air doesn't come down and you open it when you have a fire

      for - sustainable space heating - masonry heater - damper - blocks cold air when not in use

    4. with a masonry heater you can only burn wood that is seasoned so it needs to be seasoned cord

      for - sustainable space heating - masonry heater - type of wood to burn - seasoned cord to avoid creosole buildup - adjacency - masonry heater - seasoned cord

    5. very very clean when this is burning you'll look out at your chimney you won't see smoke coming out it's just really clear flu gases

      for - sustainable space heating - masonry heater - no smoke - clear flue gas

    6. recommend 18 feet with an 8 inch diameter chimney yep as long as you've got that you're going to have draft

      for - sustainable space heating - masonry heater - tip - chimney length for adequate draft - stats - masonry heater chimney length -18 feet for 8 inch diameter pipe to get good draft

    7. it should never get crucial as long as you're burning 20 or less moisture content would

      for - sustainable heating - masonry heater - tip - firewood moisture content - stats - wood burned in masonry heater - less than 20% moisture content to avoid creosol deposits

    8. there's clean outs as well those have to be cut in as well so clean out right here we got to be able to access this entire long horizontal

      for - sustainable space heating - masonry heater - tip - cleanouts - cleanouts to vacuum fly ash deposits

    1. for - youtube - sustainable space heating - masonry heater build series

      summary - This is the first of a series of youtubes on a masonry heater build using Tempcast DIY masonry heater kit showing details and all steps of the build

    1. for - sustainable space heating - masonry heater - startup

      summary - He gives a good explanation of how to do the initial startup test, which occurs over a period of a few days - This is necessary to familiarize yourself with the sequence of operation of the masonry heater and to troubleshoot any problems - See the other videos in this series

    1. The five-minute pitch by Daniel Schmachtenberger: 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗪𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗪𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀.

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    1. What implicit infra/exostructures comprise the system of systems calledlanguage?

      for - language infrastructure categories - culture - category j - logic - metaphor - semantics - syntax - concept - sign-vehicle

    2. to function, it is also necessary that we users of this system become/remainconscious of those assumptions.We can also think about our inquiry into revising the structure(s) oflanguage through a metaphor called “Neurath’s boat,” which was likely basedon the Ship of Theseus (Is it still the same ship, even if all the pieces havebeen replaced?). Otto Neurath likened the construction of a knowledge base,as science engages in, to fixing a boat at sea. As a sailor, I have had to repair

      for - metaphors - Neurath's boat

    3. Assumptions: Implicit and ExplicitIn our inquiry into language, this is a fundamental paradox we need toacknowledge: it is impossible to write about the implicit assumptions of ourlanguage system without simultaneously invoking those very assumptions.

      for - adjacency / insight - language - circularity of - paradox

      adjacency / insight - between - language - circularity - adjacency relationship - I've always strongly felt this inherent paradox of investigating language, that - by invoking language to investigate language, we are already trapped in a circular argument

    4. Invisible architectures, on the other hand, consist of ways that our worldis structured for us and by us, except that the structure itself is not imme-diately visible

      for - meme - invisible architecture - insight - language - as unintentional invisible architecture

    5. Have you felt those moments of oneness withanother? Do we ALL need to be in that state of profound being-in-love-within order to attain the kind of internal communication that my body’s cellsand microbiome have with one another?

      for - body cells and microbiome communication - the interesting thing is that when there is good communication between the microworld individuals within our body, we might not feel anything in particular - It is when we start feeling pain and discomfort that this is a signal that something is wrong between cells and/or microbiota

    6. highly intelligent species. Perhaps if we could communicate, we could worktogether to heal, so as to unite endosymbiotically. Before we can get to thisplace of integration, we need to expand our ways of being in “communica-tion” with one another.

      for - improve intra species communication - improve inter species communication

    7. If we want to participate with Gaia in her grand adventure, then we mightneed to be able to communicate with the trees and the birds and the microbes

      for - inter-species communication - to - Earth Species Project (ESP) - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTKIJpIaZfg - adjacency - interspecies communications - symbiocene - Deep Humanity interspecies communication BEing journey

    8. As microbes live on all our epithelial surfaces, we are like microbes or lice onthe skin of Earth.77 If Earth is an organism, then how many greater forms oforganisms might there be? Is our solar system an organism? Our galaxy? Theuniverse?

      for - question - are you asking metaphorically or literally? - James Lovelock' Gaia Hypothesis?

    9. .Human/Gaian CommunicationSuppose that endosymbiosis does occur and the Humanbody becomes a com-mensal or even a mutualist with the Gaianbody. Might we discover how tocommunicate directly with our own microbes and, similarly, with our host

      for - comparison - human social superorganism - endosymbiosis - It's only metaphoric at the social level, not actual physical - Although we could apply biomimicry of the endosymbiosis for insights of how to unify at the human social scale - Deep Humanity BEing journey - cross-scale endosymbiosis BEing journey

    10. In theSymbiocene Albrecht imagines “human action, culture and enterprise will beexemplified by those cumulative types of relationships and attributes nurturedby humans that enhance mutual interdependence and mutual benefit for allliving beings (desirable), all species (essential) and the health of all ecosystems
    11. how microbes have evolved to manipulate their environment, including theirhost, to ensure the survival of their species:

      for - host-microbe relationship - rat parasite

    12. Forexample, when I have a craving for sugar and I eat sugary food, I feed a yeastcalled Candida. In fact, “gut microbes may manipulate host eating behavior inways that promote their fitness at the expense of host fitness.”66 S

      for - Deep Humanity holobiont BEing journey - sugar and Candida yeast

    13. organisms formour microbiome. The host organism together with its microbiome constitutes

      for - definition - holobioint - host-microbiome relationship

    14. he processby which those previously independent organisms came together to form neworganisms is called endosymbiosis. The process of endosymbiosis was first pos-tulated in the early 20 th century but verified later by Lynn Margulis, who wasalso instrumental in developing the Gaia theory with chemist James Lovelock.

      for - definition - endosymbiosis - to - explainer video on Major Evolutionary Transitions - https://hyp.is/zXozbCT8EfCSIF_rc_6riQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfNEHl44hc - adjacency - major evolutionary transition - endosymbiosis

    15. Sorites Paradox—when doessomething stop being itself if you remove one small piece at a time?

      for - whole - sum of its parts - adjacency - Buddhist chariot analogy - Sorites paradox

    16. Indeed, if each of us is a universe, home to species who are home to species,then who is us and who is

      for - multi-scale competency architecture - language for

    17. s I examine my sofawith a deeper perception, I come to an energy phenomenon that is not auniversal presence or force and not just an accumulation of characteristicsand energies from outside itself but one that has its own particular unique,internally coherent and integrated organization. This is where I experiencethe sofa as something living, not in a biological way but in an energetic way.5

      for - question - sensing the energy of inanimate objects - I'm not sure what she means or how she does this?

    18. He wrote about forminga new mode of language called the “rheomode” (flowing mode)

      for - language - flowing mode - definition - rheomode - David Bohm - Deep Humanity flow language BEing journey

    19. First Nationspeople56 some of whose native languages were verb based and expressed processbetter than the noun-heavy English language. Such verb-based languages were

      for - language - verb-based - Navajo

    20. cultural practices and beliefs. “Mastery of Indigenous epistemology (ways ofknowing) demands being able to see beyond the object of study, to seek aviewpoint incorporating complex contextual information and group consensusabout what is real

      for - definition - high-context culture - adjacency - seeing beyond the focal object - Deep Humanity - complexity - stitch in the weave - individual collective gestalt - Deep Humanity BEing journey - high context BEing journey

      adjacency - between - indigenous epistemology - seeing beyond the focal object - Deep Humanity - stitch in the weave - adjacency relationship - This indigenous epistemology in which we go beyond what appears before our eyes - is a perspective that honors complexity, the unseen forces that have played a role in the creation of the seen object - In Deep Humanity, we also honor this as metaphors: - the "stitch in the entire weave" or - the tip of the iceberg - in which what is visible and appears immediately before us - has an entire unseen history that has brought it into the here and now - Each person we meet is the result of an entire lifetime of experiences that living being has experienced, - hundreds of thousands to many millions of different incidents have shaped that being into the shape (s)he takes today - The individual that is visibly bound by a layer of skin - is also unbound by all the phenomena throughout the entire world that has been in relationship with him/her - This enormous network of past influences span not just across the entire spatial world, but across eons of time as well - The individual/collective gestalt is the stitch in this complex woven fabric

    21. How might we reintegrate the practices ofhigh-context cultures into those of low-con

      for - definition - high-context culture - definition - low-context culture

    22. Yunkaporta introduces a set of glyphs representing different types of mindstates

      for - mind states - kinship-mind - story-mind - dreaming-mind - ancestor-mind - pattern-mind

    23. book,Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, demonstrates the

      for - book - Sand Talk - How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World - Tyler Yunkaporta - yarning - indigenous storytelling

    24. (per JeanGebser; see Figure 3 and note 44 ), myths, fables, and other older forms of storieshave been downgraded from epistemology to entertainment, while rationalscientific stories/explanations have been elevated to “Truth.

      for - stories - old - myths - entertainment - new - science elevated to truth

    25. Consider that a radically new story also requires new types of languageby which to tell it.

      for - new story - and - new language to tell it

    26. He foundthat society’s image of the future has largely been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

      for - futuring - a self-fulfilling prophecy - so many examples of this - one example is Douglas Engelbart and the "Mother of All Demos" - to - youtube - Mother of All Demos - Douglas Engelbart - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rKUf9DWRI

    27. Toward the end of his life, futurist Fred Polak looked not toward thefuture but back at the past, at what previous generations thought the futurewould be like.

      for - futurist - Fred Polak - looked to the past to see how they saw the future.

    28. I wrote a novel, The One That Is Both, that describes a place in which theinhabitants know their already-always interconnectedness and live in harmony

      for - futuring - book - The One that is Both

    29. Spatiosubobjectivity pertains to the commingling or fusion of subject, object, andspace.35 Rosen characterizes it as a dynamic process, or dialectical interplay, oneevident even at microdimensions. It is not an amalgamated “thing.” It is notlike me or you in a box with some other people or things. Rather, it embodiesthe inherent paradoxical movement of Möbial and Kleinian surfaces.

      for - definition - spatiosubobjectivity - Steven M. Rosen - a dynamic fusion of subject, object and space as a unified psychophysical reality - adjacency - Llisa's experience - spatiosubobjeectivity - Tibetan true nature of mind teaching - Deep Humanity BEing journey - spatiosubobjectivity BEing journey to induce a gestalt switch - to - wikipedia - Steven M. Rosen - https://hyp.is/twLEciIKEfCh2fulOW4D8A/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Rosen - to - homepage - Steven M. Rosen at CUNY - https://hyp.is/48yh8CJxEfCReN_MXjnJ4w/embodyingcyberspace.com/

      adjacency - between - Lisa's experience - spatiosubobjectivity - Tibetan True Nature of Mind - adjacency relationship - Lisa's experience and the word "spatiosubobjectivity" that it led to remind me of Tibetan teachings on the true nature of mind - It says essentially the same thing, that the totality of phenomena is the true nature of mind. That is, - the subject (inner) - the intervening space, and - the objects (outer) - together constitute the true nature of mind

    30. similar to how a television screen reconfigures the pixels moment bymoment.

      for - gestalt switch - metaphor - pixels of the screen changing - Deep Humanity BEing journey - gestalt switch to include space

    31. And yet it wasn’tlike hugging myself either. As I said, it’s hard to describe. These words, so rootedin separateness, do not convey simply by stating the concept of nonseparatenesswhat the experience of it was like. It was orders of magnitude different andmore profound than any flow state I have experienced. I was simultaneously

      for - Lisa's indescribable experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch

      comment - Lisa talks about finding it difficult to describe this experience - When we have entirely new experiences that are radically different from anything we've had before, - we have no reference system to describe it, the words don't exist, while the novel experience does. - This becomes an invitation to extend language, knowing however, that language itself is always dualistic and symbolic

    32. I had a profound experienceof oneness. Although I am not sure that this description is “accurate” in anyobjective sense, it conveys my experience.

      for - Lisa's profound meditative experience - gestalt switch - perspective switch - no words to describe the experience - novel experience, no words exist to describe

      comment - Lisa talks about finding it difficult to describe this experience - When we have entirely new experiences that are radically different from anything we've had before, - we have no reference system to describe it, the words don't exist, while the novel experience does. - This becomes an invitation to extend language, knowing however, that language itself is always dualistic and symbolic

    33. Itoccurred to me that as long as I feel separate from space itself, I am not experi-encing on

      for - key insight - excluding space is excluding self - as long as "I" feel separate from "space", I cannot experience oneness

    34. a Möbial relationship between consciousnessand language might help us live out a different type of relationship with Gaia,that is, with Earth as a living organism.

      for - relationship between - language and consciousness - intertwingled

    35. Hubbard made the possibility of evolving language real for me, with an urgencyto do something

      for - influence - Barbara Marx Hubbard

    36. theBaldwin Effect suggests that learned behaviors that are adopted by a group(not simply an individual) can affect evolution’s trajectory, since those wholearn to adapt to changes in their environment live to pass on their genes.37

      for - definition - Baldwin effect - learned behavior can be passed on through evolution

    37. When I look around myyard, I’m not seeing the tree-in-itself. I’m seeing the photons that bounce offthe surface of the tree as filtered through my perceptual organs and as madesense of by my conceptual structures. Photons are a 20 th -century conception;in the future we might have a different way of explaining perception.

      for - insight - perception and conception - physiosphere and symbolosphere

      comment - concepts help us to organize our perceptions - but since concepts are continuously changing - making sense of the world is in continuous flux - Hence, do not attach to them or take them too seriously, as they will change again in the future

    38. Imagine moving your arm up. You are the mover and you are the arm andyou are the space. Your arm is simply space configured a certain way. Asthe unbounded subject choosing to move your arm, you are space reconfig-uring yourself so that first “the arm” was down here and now it is up here.

      for - meditation exercise - This part of the meditation exercise is more accessible to people

    39. With your consciousness, move into a cell of one of your organs, such asyour heart.

      for - critique - meditation exercise - envisioning cells and subcellular structures

      comment - Such visualization exercises are actually very abstract and linguistically contextual - A person who has not become familiar with these sophisticated, constructed and highly abstract scientific ideas would find the visualization exercise meaningless - As a BEing journey, it would only be suited to those familiar with these concepts, and even then, the experience itself would be far from compelling

    40. there is a difference between being a facet and being the diamond, there is adifference between being the divine and being one with the divine. Findingyour connection to the divine enables the power of the divine to flow throughyou. It is not your power

      for - ego and selflessness - If it was your power, you would still be identifying with a separate ego

    41. the holy placeis secret becauseit isso close

      for - ubiquity BEing journey - Fish do not know of water

    42. Both roots and lungs internalize elements from the environment that arenecessary for life.Perhaps tree : earth :: humans : air. Is one of the lessons the coronavirustaught us that we are connected to each other through air, through the verysubstance that seems to enable us to perceive our “separateness?”

      for - similarity - other examples - See David Suzuki story of connectedness - https://hyp.is/wX0a4hIVEfCMFXfYYI59ag/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtUMM8SDws - including Harlow Shapley story about connectedness through air - https://hyp.is/D2oQhhIZEfCsoYcIvR8Ang/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtUMM8SDws

    43. Let’s deepen this ability to hold paradox. Consider holding multiple physicaland temporal layers in mind simultaneously—when you eat lunch, such as aspinach salad, consider the connectedness of you, the spinach you’re eating,and the ground from which it grew. When you eat the spinach, it is no longe

      for - example - inviting paradox - hold multiple layers simultaneously - you are what you eat - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - physiosphere - ingest and excrete - solids - liquids - gases - symbolosphere - input and output - input idea of others - output your ideas to others

    44. Although humans and Earth seem to be noncontiguous,perhaps we are contiguous in a way that we have not yet learned to perceive.

      for - 3 types of psychological separation / othering - definition - multi-scale biotic compositional separation - individual multi-cellular human psychologically separated from individual living cells within the same human's body - definition - social separation - individual human psychologically separated from other individual humans - definition - biotic / abiotic separation - individual human psychologically separated from the environment

    45. to be able to hold a paradox in mind, or at least a set of polarities—for example,that one is both unique (distinct) and not-separate. Stem and flower are spatially

      for - ecstasis and accepting paradox

    46. Manytechniques exist, from meditation and prayerto extreme sports; there are many ways toenter ecstasis. 28 Such techniques alone mightnot be sufficient to elicit a global shift inconsciousness, but if enough of us practicethem, perhaps we could create a field or shift

      for - definition - ecstasis - similarity - ecstasis - Deep Humanity BEing journey - similarity - ecstasis - epoche - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=epoche

    47. how do we shift fromseeing ourselves at the center of our existence to seeing ourselves as part ofcompletely interconnected existenc

      for - transition - perspectives - from - anthropocene - to - symbiocene

      comment - our constant othering shows that we do not even appreciate the anthropocene - we have to gain insight into our habit of othering other humans first, and co-emerge a unified humanity, before we attempt the greater task of not othering all the other species - OR we can tackle our general sense of separation of both other humans and individuals of other species

    48. Symbiocene

      for - references - hypothesis - symbiocene - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=symbiocene

      comment - I thought the name Glenn Albrecht sounded familiar!

    49. he coined manyneologisms to cover the array of positive and negative emotions we do feel orcould feel. 26 “Coming to intimately know a place as home is at the same timea way of achieving heart’s ease,” he says to introduce the term “solastalgia

      for - definition - solastalgia - heart ease - Glenn Albrecht

    50. participation mystique

      for - definition - participation mystique - infant-mother-nonseparation - synonym - nondual

    51. I envision a time when we are present to both our unitedness and ouruniqueness, similar to the way in which our own body’s many different typesof cells function togeth

      for - multi-scale competency architecture - Michael Levin

    52. If we stopped focusing on our separateness and focused instead on ouralready-always connectedness, how might we experience separateness differently?

      for - similarity - separateness vs connectedness - Deep Humanity tree metaphor - Just as the many separate branches of the tree can all be traced back to a common trunk, - similarly, all the aspects that separate one person from another can be traced back to a common affective, cognitive and linguistic basis, - otherwise, communication would be impossible

    53. Eventually that sense of nonseparateness is disrupted,and we experience her as a different being with a separate center of agency.

      for - individuation - This is a good way to articulate individuation - experiencing the mother as a being with a separate sense of agency

    54. Why is it so easy, relatively speaking, to become one with inanimateobjects, like spinnakers, and so difficult to become one with fellow humanbeings?

      for - question - why is is easier to become one with inanimate objects than to become one with another human being?

    55. When one realizes one’s interconnectedness, what have seemed like one-wayenergy flows are seen to be two-way flows, that is, a recursive flow that goesout and comes back in, regardless of the perspective taken

      for - othering - feedback loops - When we are othered, it triggers us to other as well - and vice versa - This could also be an excellent candidate for an Othering BEing journey

    56. Iwasn’t unfriendly, but I wasn’t friendly either. Eventually I realized that whenI decided that he was “mean,” I had become mean. I treated him meanly. Myjudgment of another showed me my own meanness, a shadow part of me that

      for - Deep Humanity Being journey - bringing our shadow to consciousness - Question - How could we construct shadow awareness BEing journeys?

    57. Given differentcircumstances, we all have the possibility of being X, whatever X is.

      for - similarity - Deep Humanity - principle of Empathy

      similarity - Deep Humanity - principle of Empathy - This is similar to Deep Humanity principle of Empathy, which holds that the degree of empathy we can develop - depends on our ability to experience and imagine the conditions of the other - Almost every one of us is capable of both the greatest good and the greatest evil, depending on the circumstances we developed under - In a very real sense, the great diversity of human behavior we see enacted in the world and our lives is a reflection of the great diversity of circumstances people can find themselves in - Some Deep Humanity empathy BEing Journeys can be crafted leveraging awareness of the life circumstances of the other

    58. “I’m not... [fill in the blank].” Those are the shad-ows that you are disowning, the aspects of yourself that you have “othered.”

      for - insight - adjacency - disowning - self othering

    59. Iam suggesting that we add new types of parts to tinker with—parts that aremore complex, more dynamic. Let’s find ways to melt the parts of languageso

      for - adjacency - tinkerability - language - Indyweb - The indyweb is designed for tinkerability

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    1. for - youtube - Title: What caused life's Major Evolutionary Transitions (MET)? - Author: Stuart West - self-link - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUfNEHl44hc

      summary - This is a great explanatory video showing how human beings are the evolutionary end product of many former stages of evolution in which one autonomous organisms found such symbiosis that they began to replicate together - Our human body is the product of billions of years of evolution, embodying various outputs from each major stage of a Major Evolutionary Transition (MET). - We are a multi-cellular being, a colony. Yet,at the same time, we have living elements that at one time in history, were independent living beings which were NOT part of a multi-cellular colony! - We have genes, that were once part of autonomous living entities, - Mitochondria within our cells at one time were autonomous entities, and cells, which were also once autonomously existent eukaryotes. All three exist in transmuted form that is now integrated into our body.

    1. Participedia’s Design & Technology Team operates out of the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics at Emily Carr University of Art & Design

      for - participedia - designer - Emily Carr University - Vancouver B.C.

    1. The student-led movement is resilient partly because it is leaderless by design - it is not so easy to ‘cut off the head’ of a regenerative organism that does not depend on any single person or even a small group of figureheads.

      for - example - decentralized movement - Serbia 2025 - example - decentralized movement - pros - no head to decapitate - Serbia protests 2025 - same applies to decentralized web - no central server to shut down - adjacency - decentralized movement - decentralized web - no single server to shut down - cannot decapitate

    1. The American system of governance always had this Achilles Heel in its constitution but it took a Donald Trump to come along to exploit it fully and demonstrate the existential consequences of ignoring constitutional amendment to fix that fault. Fascism easily grows out of weak democratic rules, but it usually takes massive, bloody revolution to grow democracy out of entrenched fascism.

      for - youtube - comment - Brian Tyler Cohen channel

    1. for - Doug Engelbart - Mother of all demos - highlights

      summary - many decades ago, Douglas Engelbart created the "mother of all demos" - almost all the major information technologies we take for granted today was demonstrated as possibilities in this demo

    1. for - papers to annotate - Steven M. Rosen

    2. PD requires that we relate to each other by moving in the “opposite direction” in which conventional discourse takes place. Rather than moving forward, moving out to you, authoritatively advancing my position on whatever we are discussing by simply and directly presenting it to you, I relate to you in a more circuitous, reflexive way, by going proprioceptively backward into myself, back into that hollow place at the center of my being

      for - adjacency - proprioceptive dialogue - Indyweb people-idea connection - provenance - synonym - proprioceptive dialogue - Bohmian dialogue

      adjacency - between - proprioceptive dialogue - indyweb collaboration - people-idea connection - means to an end - indyweb provenance affordance - adjacency relationship - first thought - Indyweb triangle relationship between - person - idea communicated - affordance/infrastructure - second thought - means vs end - ideas are constructed - often we approach it transactionally and present the final "polished" idea (ends) - meanwhile hiding the means, the complex process by which we arrived there - third thought - Indyweb provenance affordance - The Indyweb provenance affordance is consistent with the Indyweb people-centered, interpersonal design ethos in which - there is an audit trail for the entire origin story of any idea created by an Indyvidual or group of indyviduals

    3. for - proprioceptive dialogue - proprioception - proprioception BEing journey

    4. What I envision is the ultimate linking of consonant websites that spontaneously play off each other in an intimate exchange that reverberates planet-wide. Here there would actually be no need for deliberate planning and coordination among the websites. The resonances could occur solely through the hyperlinks, with participants picking up on inter-website harmonies simply by using their browsers to navigate.

      for - similar to - Indyweb

    5. the aims of Proprioceptive Dialogue

      for - proprioceptive dialogue - goals - Deep Humanity proprioceptive dialogue BEing journey

    6. Surpassing the virtual communication now prevailing in cyberspace and fleshing out the actuality of the “global electronic village” requires relating to one another in terms of our holes. Only in the hollow part of me is there room to receive you as you actually are, rather than as you are projected by my ego.

      for - similiar to - cannot pour into a full cup

    7. The nourishing contact with others that we so desperately crave can never be realized by selves that relate to others solely in the narcissistic terms of how those others can satisfy what our egos project upon them as potential sources of affirmation.

      for - quote / key insight - the shallow internet can never truly fulfill us

      quote / key insight - the shallow internet can never truly fulfill us - The nourishing contact with others that we so desperately crave - can never be realized by selves that relate to others solely in the narcissistic terms of how those others can satisfy what our egos project upon them as potential sources of affirmation. - Relating to each other out of the fullness of our egos, - we look to one another for nurturing support but cannot receive each other. - There are no hollow places in ourselves - that make room for the other’s presence, - that welcome the other in. - All that confronts the other - is an ego that allows space for nothing but its own self-obsessed cravings.

    8. In the body, the awareness of absence, of the hole in one’s individual being, can metamorphose into a cognizance of the paradoxical (w)holeness of a larger being, the flesh of the world. The crux of the matter is holding the paradox. As long as I proceed from the ego, I will continue my flight from paradox. So “I” must proceed from the ego’s empty core, from the hole in the “I” that can bring (w)holeness.

      for - key insight - transformation - from sense of lack - to wholeness - adjacency - sense of lack - ego's empty core

      adjacency - between - sense of lack - ego's empty core - adjacency relationship - This is a very pith statement: - In the body, the awareness of - absence, - of the hole in one’s individual being, - can metamorphose into a cognizance of - the paradoxical (w)holeness of a larger being, - the flesh of the world. -The crux of the matter is holding the paradox. - As long as I proceed from the ego, - I will continue my flight from paradox. - So “I” must proceed from the ego’s empty core, - from the hole in the “I” that can bring (w)holeness.

    9. denial of death

      for - Denial of death - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=denial+of+death - Ernest Becker

      comment - It's can be a monumental personal milestone to truly accept one's mortality - Develop Deep Humanity BEing journey for facing our denial of death

    10. Thus my addictive quest for “absolute clarity,” which is at bottom a quest for a clarification of my being that can never really be achieved.

      for - new meme - addictive quest for absolute clarity - This is an instance of what David Loy calls the intrinsic sense of lack in modernity that needs to be filled, but can never be - sense of lack - David Loy - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8

    11. One moment you’re flying high and everything is as clear as it can be. You’re experiencing a surge of unadulterated pleasure, a burst of sheer delight. But then, all of a sudden, the situation flips and you’re down in the dumps feeling the nagging necessity for another game, another sweet, another hit, another shot.

      for - adjacency - cyber ghosts - hungry ghosts - the hunger is temporarily satisfied, but the hunger pangs start again - cycling in samsara - consumerism - David Loy - inability for consumerism to fill our sense of lack - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8

    12. I crave sweet closure and am averse to uncontained ambiguity, there are those moments of proprioceptive insight that can bring the bittersweet flavor and “contained uncontainment” of the soul.

      for - proprioception - adjacency - proprioception - contained uncontainment - bittersweet (w)holeness - Zen Koan - The elbow does not bend backwards

      adjacency - between - proprioception - contained uncontainment - bittersweet (w)holeness - nonduality - Zen Koan - The elbow does not bend backwards - adjacency relationship - These ideas of proprioception, contained uncontainment, bittersweet (w)holeness - bring to surface the Zen Koan that the elbow does not bend backwards - There is freedom in limitation - Every morphic form of a living organism's body constrain it to be adapted to a specific environment - Every human cultural artefact that we produce, for instance in engineering, constrains its use - Yet there is a freedom in that limitation - The nondual includes the dual itself

    13. It is through embodied proprioception that we can make the transition to the more fulfilling interactions of a cybernetic reality that is not merely virtual but actual.

      for - proprioception - quote - proprioception - It is through embodied proprioception - that we can make the transition to the more fulfilling interactions of a cybernetic reality that is not merely virtual but actual. - question - proprioception - need more clarity

    14. The experiencing “subject” and the “object” experienced thus enter an intimate circulation, revolving around each other in interpenetrating proximity like opposing sides of a Moebius strip that continuously twist together while yet remaining apart.

      for - question - embodying paradox - writing - Is he saying that I am alternating between subject and object?

    15. Dwelling in the open-ended ambiguity, holding the paradox without resolving it in favor of one pole or the other, leaves me feeling unrewarded, frustrated, and distressed.

      for - embodying paradox

    16. embracing the reality of embodied paradox.

      for - question - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Is the title inspired by Steven M. Rosen's writings?

    17. I believe the digital age simply makes obvious the virtual nature of what we have long taken as reality, so that now, its lack of genuine substance is no longer deniable. And this is what drives us into addiction. For, no virtual substance, no one-sidedly artificial affirmation or negation, can fill in for the paradoxical actuality of our fleshly being.

      for - question - lack of genuine substance drives us into addiction - need more clarity on this

    18. sudden reduction of complexity to simplicity

      for - progress trap - reducing complexity to simplicity - A very human trait, it's why we make models, which lead to progress traps

    19. In addictions as diverse as cocaine abuse and gambling, the evidence indicates the presence of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with heightened attention to complex or ambiguous stimuli that hold the promise of rapid and clear-cut resolution.

      for - addiction - produces contrived simplicity - artificial clarity

    20. one morning, with the errant press of a button, I overwrote the file that had contained my work and weeks of toil were simply obliterated. Not a catastrophic fire or an explosion, but the innocent stroke of a key had annihilated what I had previously put so much of myself into for so many days. This led me to radically doubt the weight of that work.

      for - accidentally deleting a file - emphemeral - reflections - This has happened to me a number of times as well. - My reflection of this is that everything is transient, our lives, our work are all footprints in the sand, washed away with the next incoming wave - How important are ideas, these combinations of words that we prize above other combination of words? - Humans value things, nature has no such intrinsic value. - Evolution can wipe out an entire species without batting an eyelash, a meteor can wipe out all life on a planet, it doesn't matter to reality because reality does not pass judgment - good and bad, ethics is not inherent in nature, only in human nature

    21. the ephemerality of cyberspace can prove to be downright frightening, as I have personally discovered.

      for - quote - emphemerality of cyberspace can be downright frightening - Steven M. Rosen - Indyweb leverages IPFS CID (Content Identification) addressing to combat emphermerality through the affordance of provenance

    22. Here inscriptions seem readily reversible; traces can be destroyed and created with equanimity in the virtual spaces of cyberworld

      for - IPFS and Indyweb provenance implies that the traces cannot fully be effaced.

    23. According to Bohm, information is defined as “a form that literally ‘informs’ (i.e., forms from within) an ‘unformed’ energy to give rise to a corresponding determinate activity.”

      for - information - in form - form from within - David Bohm

    24. for - proprioceptive dialogue

    25. for - homepage - Steven M. Rosen - spatiosubobjectivity - from - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Lisa Maroski - https://hyp.is/YLmtOCE4EfCXSA-i4OzEpg/ipfs.indy0.net/ipfs/bafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy

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    1. he life on the planet is not in danger anyway it's a very anthropocentric issue

      for - critique- claim - Anthropocene is no threat to life on earth - I have to disagree with him on this point - By definition, a sixth mass extinction implies that much of life on the planet is at risk - If he means life will continue to evolve, that is certainly true

    2. the anthroposin makes sense less as a geoplanetary period than an historical period relating to humans is very anthropocentric issue and that means that Social science must be uh uh at the core of the challenges and the issue of the uh uh uh anthroposine uh question

      for - key insight - social science must be at the core of the challenges of the Anthropocene

    3. for - youtube - Anthropocene - We are already emerging from the Anthropocene - Eric Mace, Bodora University - youtube - presentation - Anthropocene

      Summary - This presentation makes 6 points about the Anthropocene in question / answer format: - Q1 - Is the Anthropocene a new geoplanetary era? - It doesn't matter, regardless, it is a definite and important anthropocentric issue (anthropos-kainos) - Q2 - Is the Anthropocene an evidence-based reality? - Yes, it's a catastrophic anthropogenic pressure on planet earth - Q3 - Is the Anthropocene an unprecedented moment in the whole human history? - absolutely - Q4 - What is the relationship between the Anthropocene and Western modernity? - Since the 16th century, the Western modernity IS the Anthropocene and vice versa - Q5 - If it is possible to determine the historical moment of entry into the Anthropocene, can we determine the historical moment of exit from the Anthropocene? - Yes, probably during the 21st century, due to a massive decrease in anthropogenic pressure - Q6 - Do we already know how we shall exit from the Anthropocene? - It depends on social relationships of power

    4. it's a presentation a six point presentation six questions and six answers and as there is no suspense I will give the answer uh from the beginning so there will have no suspense

      for - anthropocene - 6 points

    1. f you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt you're running a trade deficit with all those shops now it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things you're ripping me off you're ripping me off you're ripping me off i'm running a trade deficit that is the level of understanding of the president of the United States

      for - quote - Trump's misunderstanding of trade deficit and tariffs - Jeffrey Sachs

      quote - Trump's misunderstanding of trade deficit and tariffs - Jeffrey Sachs - If you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt you're running a trade deficit with all those shops - Now it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things - "you're ripping me off, i'm running a trade deficit!" - That is the level of understanding of the president of the United States!

    1. for - report - America's Superintelligence Project - definition - ASI - Artificial Super Intelligence

      summary - What is the cost of mistrust between nation states? - The mistrust between the US and China is reaching an all-tie high and it has disastrous consequences for an AI arms race - It is driving each country to move fast and break things, which will become an existential threat to all humanity - Deep Humanity, with an important dimension of progress traps can help us navigate ASI

    2. A domestic superintelligence project would have a huge energy footprint that we wouldn’t be able to conceal from adversaries

      for - ASI project - energy consumption - gWatt

    3. we may be tempted to conduct our own activities aimed at introducing trojans or backdoors into adversary models. This could end up being necessary, but it could also trigger dangerous loss of control behaviors and runaway escalation.

      for - progress trap - ASI - introducing trojan and backdoors in adversary ASI - can backfire

    4. AI containment

      for - definition - AI containment - progress trap - AI containment

    5. former Mossad cyber operative warned, “The worst thing that could happen is that the U.S. develops an AI superweapon, and China or Russia have a trojan/backdoor inside the superintelligent model's weights because e.g. they had read/write access to the training data pipelines

      for - ASI scenario - adversary with trojan backdoor access

    6. example

      for - example - AI unpredicted behavior

    7. AI alignment researchers estimate less than a 10% chance that we lose control of superintelligent AI once it’s built. More typical estimates range from 10-80%, depending on who you ask.

      for - stats - chances of losing control of ASI - 10 to 80%

    8. highly capable and context-aware AI systems can invent dangerously creative strategies to achieve their internal goals that their developers never anticipated or intended them to pursue.

      for - progress trap - ASI - progress trap - AGI

    9. as we get closer to superintelligence, it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, if not as a WMD in and of itself. Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.

      for - quote - AGI - Weapon of Mass Destruction

      quote - As we get closer to superintelligence, - it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of - weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, - if not as a WMD in and of itself. - Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.

    10. To this day, if you know the right people, the Silicon Valley gossip mill is a surprisingly reliable source of information if you want to anticipate the next beat in frontier AI – and that’s a problem. You can’t have your most critical national security technology built in labs that are almost certainly CCP-penetrated

      for - high security risk - US AI labs

    11. AI is already augmenting important parts of the AI research process itself, and that will only accelerate

      for - quote - AI - AI is accelerating AI research itself

    12. at any given time, the CCP may have a better idea of what OpenAI’s frontier advances look like than the U.S. government does.

      for - AI - Chinese know more than US government about latest US frontier AI research

    13. Many in Silicon Valley believe we're less than a year away from AI that can automate most software engineering work

      for - progress trap - AGI - one year away from automating software work

    14. an AI-powered denial capability is useless if it behaves unpredictably, and if it executes on its instructions in ways that have undesired, high-consequence side-effects.

      for - progress trap - AGI

    15. The "move fast and break things" ethos of Silicon Valley is incompatible with the security demands of superintelligence

      for - progress trap - AGI - Silicon Valley move fast and break things strategy - incompatible with security of AGI