January 2012
2 posts
☀ Aggregate.
Imagine a very large, well-lit room. No shadows obscure any corner. Every surface is smooth and within easy reach. You’ve been usered in alone with nothing but a small can of paint and a brush. You can do anything you like while you’re in here, but in a short time you’ll be removed, never to see it again. Within a moment you realize you’re not the first person to have been...
Reading.
Reading isn’t a distraction or diversion, at least not the sort of reading that leads to reading long lists of minutea about what has been read, collections of details without any context. Good reading leads the reader to explore the inner parts of his mind, to become familiar with them in more than just an instinctual way, rather like how when moving to a new city, you might come to find...
December 2011
2 posts
☀ The Sea.
There’s a world or a space that belongs to ideas, where they touch and push and combine with each other, and that world mostly intersects with ours inside of human skulls, but there other physical places where they are more visible or at least concentrated heavily enough to be felt, if not seen. Some of these places just the secondary effects of the ideas that enter into our world though the...
☀ The Divide.
Factual knowledge and abstract concepts are of the same kind of stuff. That is, they are patterns in our brains with two qualities:
1) We have direct access to them, as contrasted with things like reflexes, muscle memories, and other forms of conditioned or pre-existing reponses, which we normally cannot activate consciously.
2) They can exist in any brain, provided that the brain has the...