Category:Concepts - Revision history

Robert.adlington at 16:53, 24 August 2026

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 ** Factual data is stored in the temporal and frontal lobes as independent facts, without strong links to how you learned them
 ** Episodic memories have their core sensory data stored in the cortex, but retain permanent links to the hippocampus for contextual details.
 Memory retrieval requires brain networks to work together to provide personal and factual information to consciousness. For example, when thinking about "Berlin":
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 * The left inferior frontal gyrus filters out irrelevant trivia and selects the facts you need.
 * Memories of a visit to the city are stitched together by the hippocampus, which can signal the visual cortex to recreate the sights of monuments you saw and the auditory cortex to recall sounds you heard.
-* The medial prefrontal cortex
+* The amygdala provides emotional content.
 == Neurodivergence ==

Robert.adlington: /* Memory */

2026-08-24T16:11:43Z

Memory

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	== Memory ==		== Memory ==
			Memory encoding is done in two areas:

			* The Hippocampus - Combines the incoming sensory information into a single memory trace.
			* The Cortex:
			** The hippocampus plays the memory back to the cortex while we sleep or rest.
			** Factual data is stored in the temporal and frontal lobes as independent facts, without strong links to how you learned them
			** Episodic memories have their core sensory data stored in the cortex, but retain permanent links to the hippocampus for contextual details.

			Memory retrieval requires brain networks to work together to provide personal and factual information to consciousness. For example, when thinking about "Berlin":

			* Factual information such as "Berlin is the capital of Germany", which is stored across the lateral temporal cortex is s part of a semantic network of nodes that is activated.
			* The left inferior frontal gyrus filters out irrelevant trivia and selects the facts you need.
			* Memories of a visit to the city are stitched together by the hippocampus, which can signal the visual cortex to recreate the sights of monuments you saw and the auditory cortex to recall sounds you heard.
			* The medial prefrontal cortex

	== Neurodivergence ==		== Neurodivergence ==

Robert.adlington: /* Perception */

2026-08-17T16:49:31Z

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 * When I attempt to analyze what is going on in my mind when performing reasoning tasks such as completing a crossword or a Wordle, or generating words for a Spelling Bee, I cannot say what is happening or how I am directing my strategies. Words simply appear in my mind.
 * When I am speaking or writing a sentence, I am aware of the piecemeal manner in which the words come. I am able to direct things to a certain extent, but I am not "outside" the process, orchestrating it, I am somehow inside a process that is happening to me.
 == Thought ==

Robert.adlington: /* Perception */

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 * Perception is not a case of passive recording of sense impressions from outside.
 * See:
 ** [[The Hidden Spring#10. Back to the Cortex|Mark Solms' The Hidden Spring]]
 ** [[Everything is Predictable#5. The Bayesian Brain|Tom Chivers' Everything is Predictable]]
 ** etc
 == The Self ==

Robert.adlington at 17:13, 3 August 2026

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 ** AI is not a way out of the postmodern wasteland; it is the concrete canopy built over it. It takes the terrifying, beautiful, chaotic project of human categorization—the messy, emotional, memory-infused art that makes your mind uniquely yours—and turns it over to a predictive text algorithm.
-== Phenomenology ==
 == Heterophenomenology ==

Robert.adlington: /* Concept/Category */

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 ** When you spend your days interacting with an AI, conversational boundaries evaporate. You type a prompt, the AI spits back a mirror of your own linguistic habits, and you edit it. The loop closes. You enter a state of pure semantic hollowing. You are no longer navigating the postmodern wasteland; you are a ghost talking to a machine, using automated words to build an automated self.
 ** AI is not a way out of the postmodern wasteland; it is the concrete canopy built over it. It takes the terrifying, beautiful, chaotic project of human categorization—the messy, emotional, memory-infused art that makes your mind uniquely yours—and turns it over to a predictive text algorithm.
 == Heterophenomenology ==

Robert.adlington: /* Memory */

2026-06-11T13:02:14Z

Memory

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	== Memory ==		== Memory ==

			== Neurodivergence ==

			* The term neurodivergent describes people whose brain differences affect how their brain works and is commonly used to talk about people on the autism spectrum or having ADHD or other conditions or disorders.
			* But we are all neurodivergent in the sense that:
			** Our genetic makeup has caused our brains to develop differently in utero, leading to us having certain predispositions to stimuli
			** Our lived experiences from birth start to instill habits of perception in us
			** Our embodiment and social situation has a great effect on how we experience things.

			== Language Acquisition and Bilingualism ==

			* When I acquire my first language (or my first languages, if I am being raised in a bilingual or multilingual environment), I am not only learning words but also the concepts that structure how my society and my immediate kin group and relations view the world. When I learn that "this is blue" or "this is a dog", I am learning not only the terms themselves, but also the boundaries of the concepts that these terms name.
			* When I learn additional languages as a teenager or later, my concepts are already present in mind and my experience is more focused on acquiring new words that represent my existing concepts, though as my fluency develops, I may discover that the new language divides up experience in different ways.

Robert.adlington: /* Perception */

2026-06-08T16:41:22Z

Perception

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	== Perception ==		== Perception ==

			* Perception is not a case of passive recording of sense impressions from outside.
			* See:
			** [[The Hidden Spring#10. Back to the Cortex\|Mark Solms' The Hidden Spring]]
			** [[Everything is Predictable#5. The Bayesian Brain\|Tom Chivers' Everything is Predictable]]
			** etc

	== The Self ==		== The Self ==

			* The self seems to emerge from the perception of

	== Habit ==		== Habit ==

			* We are the results of our habits

	== Memory ==		== Memory ==

Robert.adlington: /* Heterophenomenology */

2026-06-08T11:28:13Z

Heterophenomenology

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	* When I attempt to analyze what is going on in my mind when performing reasoning tasks such as completing a crossword or a Wordle, or generating words for a Spelling Bee, I cannot say what is happening or how I am directing my strategies. Words simply appear in my mind.		* When I attempt to analyze what is going on in my mind when performing reasoning tasks such as completing a crossword or a Wordle, or generating words for a Spelling Bee, I cannot say what is happening or how I am directing my strategies. Words simply appear in my mind.
	* When I am speaking or writing a sentence, I am aware of the piecemeal manner in which the words come. I am able to direct things to a certain extent, but I am not "outside" the process, orchestrating it, I am somehow inside a process that is happening to me.		* When I am speaking or writing a sentence, I am aware of the piecemeal manner in which the words come. I am able to direct things to a certain extent, but I am not "outside" the process, orchestrating it, I am somehow inside a process that is happening to me.

			== Perception ==

			== The Self ==

			== Habit ==

			== Memory ==

Robert.adlington at 16:56, 7 June 2026

2026-06-07T16:56:45Z

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	** AI is not a way out of the postmodern wasteland; it is the concrete canopy built over it. It takes the terrifying, beautiful, chaotic project of human categorization—the messy, emotional, memory-infused art that makes your mind uniquely yours—and turns it over to a predictive text algorithm.		** AI is not a way out of the postmodern wasteland; it is the concrete canopy built over it. It takes the terrifying, beautiful, chaotic project of human categorization—the messy, emotional, memory-infused art that makes your mind uniquely yours—and turns it over to a predictive text algorithm.

	*		== Heterophenomenology ==

			* Dennett's position requires us to combine a subject's self-reports with all other available evidence to determine their mental state. The goal is to discover how subjects see the world themselves, without taking the accuracy of the subject's view for granted. He contrasts this with traditional Cartesian phenomenology, which he calls "lone-wolf autophenomenology" because it accepts the subject's self-reports as being authoritative.
			* When I attempt to analyze what is going on in my mind when performing reasoning tasks such as completing a crossword or a Wordle, or generating words for a Spelling Bee, I cannot say what is happening or how I am directing my strategies. Words simply appear in my mind.
			* When I am speaking or writing a sentence, I am aware of the piecemeal manner in which the words come. I am able to direct things to a certain extent, but I am not "outside" the process, orchestrating it, I am somehow inside a process that is happening to me.