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- 17:13, 3 August 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Phenomenology (Created page with "We have a form of "privileged access" - a direct, first-person doorway to our own mental contents that no external observer possesses. But even if it feels like we are watching our minds work in real time, our introspective access is severely limited: * We see the output, not the process - Your mind generates the result of a thought, and then invents a plausible-sounding reason after the fact to explain why you thought it. * Your conscious awareness is just the thin, sh...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:01, 26 July 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Category:Books (Created page with "== Books to Buy == Used: * [https://www.amazon.fr/Nightmare-Reason-Life-Franz-Kafka/dp/0374523355/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3UVJCLJFIY2CS&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.u3RaalBtg8bvWBbE8fVyXaCIirwCIkTLbUk5cwh_aYdlxQvg0yct5WxpF8hlFrbZxzIlPisTw_LJ-XermdOvrvQTKJR1xhGnjBQeBOOkj7UvLDqubVbBqOs4xWZlUjrzTneCM3AQNtLpEPT7T52XEL13eNQRCBZrMnVuSMk128RVqDk4IOYDPBhUWZzf9mHNv9T-yqA9Qv2JRg8l61zGhg.6VgqDbi7D-Vl19NQyoPSj86-nLG9IM98Vpm9Z9m-uGo&dib_tag=se&keywords=nightmare%2Bof%2Breason&qid=1783763181&sprefix...")
- 09:13, 16 July 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Art of Logic (Created page with "== I: The Power of Logic == == II: The Limits of Logic == == III: Beyond Logic ==") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:53, 15 July 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Why Read (Created page with "== Why Read? == * I just can't look outside of what it might be like to have an intellect and sensibility formed by interaction with texts. Or can I? After all, I sympathized heavily with Alvarenga (an illiterate man, lost at sea) - so perhaps, after all, this is the answer to the vexed question of why we should read: so as to anticipate, understand, and so connect with the non-literate realms that surround us - whether we be separated from them by reason of space or ti...") Tag: Visual edit
- 13:24, 6 July 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Collected Schizophrenias (Created page with "=== Diagnosis === * Bullet === Toward a Pathology of the Possessed === * Bullet === High-Functioning === * Bullet === Yale Will Not Save You === * Bullet === The Choice of Children === * Bullet === On the Ward === * Bullet === The Slender Man, the Nothing, and Me === * Bullet === Reality, On-Screen === * Bullet === John Doe, Psychosis === * Bullet === Perdition Days === * Bullet === L'Appel du Vide === * Bullet === Chimayo === * Bullet === Beyong...") Tag: Visual edit
- 17:31, 4 July 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain (Created page with "== 1/2. Your Brain is Not For Thinking == * Bulleted list item == 1. You Have One Brain (Not Three) == * Bulleted list item == 2. Your Brain is a Network == * Bulleted list item == 3. Little Brains Wire Themselves to Their World == * Bulleted list item == 4. Your Brain Predicts (Almost) Everything You Do == * Bulleted list item == 5. Your Brain Secretly Works with Other Brains == * Bulleted list item == 6. Brains Make More than One Kind of Mind == * Bulleted list item ==...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 14:48, 4 July 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Nine Minds (Created page with "* 30. Excerpts from Kana's scale of loneliness: ** 0 - Contentment - Being wholly at ease with the world. ** 3 - Mild Isolation - Aloneness is noticed regularly, living and work spaces seem excessively large. ** 4 - Moderate Isolation - Aloneness is unpleasant like body odor, days feel very long. ** 6 - Estrangement - Sense of not belonging, being unlike others, connection is difficult. ** 8 - Severe Exclusion - Sensation of being cut off from others by an invisible wall...") Tag: Visual edit
- 08:04, 4 July 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Ambigrammia (Created page with "* 10. As in any work of art, almost the entire creative process lies hidden beneath the surface. * 16. Cheating of this sort, and of a myriad of other sorts, lies at the heart of the art of ambigrammia. * 20. Is that first shape really a "D"? Is the final shape really an "E"? Such questions make it sound as if precise scientific determination is called for, but category membership is blurry and is influenced by context, and the nearby letters (or nearby shapes, to use a...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:13, 5 June 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Category:Concepts (Created page with "This is a page to the concepts category. I wonder if it worked?") Tag: Visual edit
- 08:51, 20 May 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer's (Created page with "== Introduction == * Bulleted list item == 1. Development, Birth, and Parental Care == * Bulleted list item == 2. Threats to the Fetal Brain in the "Safety" of the Womb == * Bulleted list item == 3. Sexual Differentiation of the Brain in the Womb == * Bulleted list item == 4. Puberty, Love, and Sexual Behavior == * Bulleted list item == 5. Hypothalamus: Survival, Hormones, and Emotions == * Bulleted list item == 6. Addictive Substances == * Bulleted list item == 7. The B...")
- 16:39, 19 May 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page This is Your Mind on Plants (Created page with "== Introduction == * Societies condone the mind-changing drugs that help uphold society's rule and ban the ones that are seen to undermine it. * Humans have identified plants that: ** Lift the burden of physical pain ** Render us more alert or capable of uncommon feats ** Make us more sociable ** Elicit feelings of awe or ecstasy ** Nourish our imagination ** Transcend time and space ** Occasion dreams and visions and mystical experiences ** Bring us into the presence o...") Tag: Visual edit
- 16:29, 18 May 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife (Created page with "== Part 1: Life == === 1. Out of the Old World === * Bulleted list item === 2. Vita Nuova === * Bulleted list item === 3. Man of Letters === * Bulleted list item === 4. Extreme Cubist Literature === * Bulleted list item === 5. A Puzzle Picture === * Bulleted list item === 6. Shoving the Unshoveable === * Bulleted list item === 7. Knockout and a Wow === * Bulleted list item === 8. Publicity Saint === * Bulleted list item === 9. To Be Historical === * Bulleted list item ==...")
- 10:45, 18 May 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs undeleted page Gödel, Escher, Bach (3 revisions)
- 13:07, 14 May 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning (Created page with "* These (older, primary) processes strive towards gaining pleasure; physical activity draws back from any event which might arouse unpleasure. (Here we have repression.) * <u>Senses</u> - The increased significance of external reality (the setting up of the reality principle) heightened the importance, too, of the sense-organs that are directed towards that external world, and of the consciousness attached to them. Consciousness now learned to comprehend sensory qualiti...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:01, 30 April 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Open Socrates (Created page with "== Introduction: The Man Whose Name is an Example == * Bulleted list item == Part One: Untimely Questions == === 1. The Tolstoy Problem === * Bulleted list item === 2. Load-Bearing Answers === * Bulleted list item === 3. Savage Commands === * Bulleted list item === 4. Socratic Intellectualism === * Bulleted list item == Part Two: The Socratic Method == * Bulleted list item === 5. The Gadfly-Midwife Paradox === * Bulleted list item === 6. Moore's Paradox of Self-Knowledg...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 15:49, 29 April 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Consciousness: How Our Brains Turn Matter Into Meaning (Created page with "== 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1. What is Consciousness? == * Bullet point == 1....") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 15:10, 22 April 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Hidden Spring (Created page with "== 1. The Stuff of Dreams == * Bulleted list item == 2. Before and After Freud == * Bulleted list item == 3. The Cortical Fallacy == * Bulleted list item == 4. What is Experienced? == * Bulleted list item == 5. Feelings == * Bulleted list item == 6. The Source == * Bulleted list item == 7. The Free Energy Principle == * Bulleted list item == 8. A Predictive Hierarchy == * Bulleted list item == 9. Why and How Consciousness Arises == * Bulleted list item == 10. Back to the...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 14:00, 20 April 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Happiness of Dogs (Created page with "== 1. Shadow's Rock == * Heading text == Heading text == * Heading text == Heading text == * Heading text == Heading text == * Heading text == Heading text == * Heading text == Heading text == * Heading text == Heading text == * Heading text == Heading text == * Heading text") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 12:39, 18 April 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Interpretation of Dreams (Created page with "This is the first in a sequence of Freud readings, recommended by Liz == VII: The Psychology of the Dream-Processes == === A: The Forgetting of Dreams === * An observation which I have been able to make in the course of preparing this manuscript has shown me that dreams are no more forgotten than other mental acts and can be compared, by no means to their disadvantage, with other mental functions in respect of their retention in memory. * It is, indeed, not easy to fo...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:39, 16 February 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Intentional Stance (Created page with "== 1. Setting Off on the Right Foot == * The Manifest Image - Our nervous systems were designed to make the distinctions we need swiftly and reliably, to bring under single sensory rubrics the relevant common features in our environment, and to ignore what we can usually get away with ignoring. ** We have it thanks to extraordinarily efficient and reliable systems of expectation-generation. ** Compare this to the scientific image * We make sense of each other by adoptin...") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:50, 11 February 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Why We Read Fiction (Created page with "== Part I: Attributing Minds == * We engage in mind-reading when: ** We ascribe to a person a certain mental state on the basis of her observable action. ** We interpret our own feelings based on our proprioceptive awareness. ** We intuit a complex state of mind based on a limited verbal description ** We compose an essay, a lecture, a movie, a song, a novel, or an instruction for an electrical appliance and try ot imagine how this or that segment of our target audience...") Tag: Visual edit
- 19:25, 24 January 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Unnatural Voices (Created page with "== 1. Introduction: Transgressing Self and Voice - Contemporary Fiction and the Death of the Narrator == * == 2. "At First You Feel a Bit Lost": The Varieties of Second Person Narration == * == 3. Class and Consciousness: "We" Narration from Conrad to Postcolonial Fiction == * == 4. I etcetera: Multiperson Narration and the Range of Contemporary Narrators == * == 5. Three Extreme Forms of Narration and a Note on Postmodern Unreliability == * == 6. Unnatural Nar...") Tag: Visual edit
- 13:33, 10 January 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page How the World Made the West (Created page with "== Introduction == == 1. A Single Sail == == 2. The Palace of Minos == == 3. The Amber Routes == == 4. The Erupting Sea == == 5. Band of Brothers == == 6. Alphabet City == == 7. Regime Change == == 8. I Am Not Your Servant == == 9. Through the Pillars == == 10. The Invention of Greece == == 11. The Assyrian Mediterranean == == 12. He Who Saw the Deep == == 13. The Bitter River == == 14. The King of Kings == == 15. The Persian Version == == 16. Continental Thinking == ==...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 10:35, 5 January 2026 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Created page with "== 1. Narrative and Life == == 2. Defining Narrative == == 3. The Borders of Narrative == == 4. The Rhetoric of Narrative == == 5. Closure == == 6. Narration == == 7. Interpreting Narrative == == 8. Three Ways to Interpret Narrative == == 9. Interpretation Across Media == == 10. Character and Self in Narrative == == 11. Narrative and Truth == == 12. Narrative Worlds == == 13. Narrative Contestation == == 14. Narrative Negotiation ==") Tag: Visual edit
- 07:55, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Random Robby 6.png
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- 06:56, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Random Robby 4.png
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- 06:39, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Random Robby 3.png
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- 06:27, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Random Robby 2.png
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- 06:09, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Random Robby 1.png
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- 06:00, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Coding Experiments (Created page with "== Setup == This was surprisingly easy. I already had a personal github, but needed to install the iOS app. Once that was done, Claude Code walked me through linking to it. CC will create a branch and do its work, but then I need to manually create a PR to merge that branch to main. This is probably a good guardrail for real development work == Triangle Generator == I started in a very informal manner, getting CC to generate a random right angled triangle and to provide...") Tag: Visual edit
- 14:21, 17 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page How Life Works (Created page with "* Prologue * 1. The End of the Machine: A New View of Life * 2. Genes: What DNA Really Does * 3. RNA and Transcription: Reading the Message * 4. Proteins: Structure and Unstructure * 5. Networks: The Webs That Make Us * 6. Cells: Decisions, Decisions * 7. Tissues: How to Build, When to Stop * 8. Bodies: Uncovering the Pattern * 9. Agency: How Life Gets Goals and Purpose * 10. Troubleshooting: Rethinking Medicine * 11. Making and Hacking: Redesigning Life * Epilogue") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 19:47, 14 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Chemistry: A Very Short Introduction (Created page with "== Origins, Scope, and Organization == * Chemistry exploits quantum mechanics and thermodynamics from physics. * Biology is merely an elaboration of chemistry. * Chemistry can be divided into: ** Physical Chemistry - At the interface between physics and chemistry. ** Organic Chemistry - Concerned with compounds of carbon. As a result of its mild and unaggressive character, Carbon is able to form chains and rings of startling complexity., which is exactly what organisms...") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:26, 7 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Orthocenter.png
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- 10:25, 7 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Centroid.png
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- 10:19, 7 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Geometry (Created page with "Lines and Points == Triangles == * Triangles have three sides and three angles, which add up to 180 * Congruent Triangles - have the same size and shape (and remain congruent even if they are flipped, turned, or rotated * Circumcenters, Incenters, Centroids, and Orthocenters {| class="wikitable" |+ !Circumcenter !Incenter !Centroid !Orthocenter |- | | | | |- | | | | |- | | | | |} *") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:22, 6 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Les Rougon-Macquart (Created page with "== Liste des vingt romans == {| class="wikitable sortable" !N° !Parution !Titre !Date de l'action !Personnages principaux des Rougon-Macquart !Génération !Ordre de lecture recommandé par Zola<ref name=":0"></ref> |- | style="text-align:right" |1 | style="text-align:center" |1871 |''[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fortune_des_Rougon La Fortune des Rougon]'' | style="text-align:center" |1790 - 1851 |Pierre Rougon, Antoine Macquart, Silvère Mouret |1 et 2 |1 |- | sty...") Tag: Visual edit
- 10:22, 6 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page Literal Calculation (Created page with "== Developing and Factorizing Equations == For any real numbers: * <math>a(b + c) = ab + ac</math> * <math>a(b - c) = ab - ac</math> * <math>(a + b)(c + d) = ac + ad + bc + bd</math> == Remarkable Identities == For any real numbers: * Square of a sum: <math>(a + b)^2 = a^2 + 2ab + b^2</math> * Square of a difference: <math>(a - b)^2 = a^2 - 2ab + b^2</math> * Difference of two squares: <math>a^2 - b^2 = (a + b)(a - b)</math> == Powers and Exponents == For any non-nul...") Tag: Visual edit
