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Cognitive Semantics

We function not in the real world, but in a virtual reality even when nowhere near our computers. We need our perceptions to be real enough to be functional, but we cannot make them perfectly accurate. You are what you are because you have agreed according to protocol to not be otherwise, and you continue to observe the same communications protocol while you change.

What we learn in acquiring language are social habits, rules or tack on subroutines to the core system of human interaction. The language attempts to direct intention.

Without Words

Can you think without words? Maybe that would depend on the sort of thinking it is. I often think in… Read More

Special Effects

The order is illusory, but when I speak of things being illusory, that’s not a criticism. Illusion is pragmatic. We… Read More

Coherent Structure

Is the medium the same thing as the information? Is the map the territory or information about the territory? The… Read More

An End to a Means

At the early stage of consciousness, you experience time and space as complex event matrices, and by referring to it… Read More

Intentional Channel

Everything on our planet has a language, either passive or dynamic. From whale song to human speech, every living thing… Read More

Personal Narrative

Shall we get into personal narrative? Your autobiographical memory is not autobiographical. Professionals say mine is poor because it doesn’t… Read More

Our Other Mind

There is a whole domain of consciousness that has been evolving alongside this that has come to dominate out current… Read More

Assert the Other Mind

I have a strange question for you. Are you all somewhat agitated right now? Hmmm, yes and no. A part… Read More