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  1. May 2025
    1. “so-called primal words (Urworte), for example, evidence two antithetic con-notations: Latin altus meant ‘high’ as well as ‘low’ [as in the mountain-valleyexample]; sacer meant ‘sacred’ as well as ‘cursed.’” 256 Greek

      for - definition - primal words - Urworte - unitary words that contain two opposite poles

    2. Karl Abel’s book Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

      for - timebinding - Karl Abel - Sigmund Freud - Gebser - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words] - language construction - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

    3. consider to be polarities. Differentiation of the poles of a polarity into separateconcepts, then, would emerge after the underlying form of experience (thetraversing of terrain or the passage of time, or, simply, ongoingness of expe-rience of a cyclical nature) was noticed and exploited for some purpose, suchas safety or ease. For example, it is easier moving through the forest by day,and it is cooler moving through the desert at night. There was survival valuein distinguishing different aspects of unified experience.

      for - key insight - language - emergence of polarity - evolutionary fitness

    4. vocal communication. Indeed, we learn to use language before we understandlanguage, as exemplified by a friend’s 2-year-old grandson who adeptly appliedwords he had heard his parents say and demanded that “someone change myfucking diaper!” We learn to understand language before we learn to questionlanguage. Rarely do we learn to question language itself.

      for - key insight - language - unanswerable questions of the experienced language user - we learn to apply language long before we know what it is.

      analysis - Language allows us to ask questions about our reality, but there are certain questions that are intrinsically unanswerable - As an experienced language user, we cannot know what our experience of reality would be like had we not learned a language

    5. The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of

      for - quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - adjacency - Jung on diversity and unity - Deep Humanity tree metaphor

      quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of effecting a union with the world - not with the world of multiplicity as we see it but - with a potential world, - the eternal Ground of all empirical being, <br /> - just as the self is the ground and origin of the individual personality - past, - present, and - future

      comment - Deep Humanity strives for the same union of unity and diversity via a tree metaphor, a journey - from the diversity of multiplicity of branches of the tree - back to the common trunk of the tree

    6. That expe-rience made it very clear to me that the ideas I am proposing could result ina similar experience for my readers. That is why any novel language, or evenmodifications to English or other languages, need to be built from the groundup by users themselves and be as transparent as possible.

      for - adjacency - misinterpretation - Indyweb dev - symmathesetic fingerprint - salience mismatch

    7. Individuation requires relativizing one’s ego in order to integrate increas-ingly comprehensive types of opposites, such as one’s persona characteristicsand one’s shadow characteristics, to realize one’s true Self. It is a vortical pro-

      for - definition - individuation - working - integrating increasingly comprehensive types of opposites to realize ones true self - including and holding in tension projections and shadows - adjacency - individuation - integrating - projections - shadows - holding tension

    8. Individuating at the physical level occurs in all life. When a seed sprouts,it starts becoming the type of plant that it is—squash, lilac, redwood. Inflowering plants, for example, there is an identifiable continuum or cycle thatthe plant goes through, from sprouting to flowering to fruiting to reseeding.

      for - example - individuate - plant life

    9. 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

    10. 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

    11. 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

    12. 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.

    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. 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!

    16. 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!

    17. 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

    18. 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

    19. 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

    20. 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

    21. 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

    22. 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. 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. 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

    3. 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

    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. 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

    2. 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

    3. 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

    4. 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

    5. 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

    6. 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

    7. 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

    8. 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)

    9. 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

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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

  2. Apr 2025
    1. 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

    2. 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

    3. 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

    4. 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

    5. .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

    6. 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

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

    7. 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

    8. 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?

    9. 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

    10. 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

    11. 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

    12. 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

    13. 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

    14. 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

    15. 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

    16. 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

    17. 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

    18. 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

    19. 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

    20. 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

    21. 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

    22. 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

    23. 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

    24. 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

    25. 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?

    26. 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

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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. 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. 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

    2. 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

    3. 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

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    6. 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

    7. 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

    8. 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

    9. 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

    10. 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?

    11. 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

    12. 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

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    1. 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

    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!