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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 */

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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 */

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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

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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.

Robert.adlington at 16:36, 7 June 2026

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 I've done a lot of reading and taken a lot of notes. Now, on this page, I want to start pulling out concepts that I want to think about. I can start them on this page and then if they get rich enough they can move out to their own page.
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 * Eleanor Rosch in the 1970s argues that categories are based around a kind of mental average or prototype
 * Eco contrasted a hierarchical "dictionary" vision of categories and a boundless network of categories that he sees as a rhizome - a tangled underground root system
 ** Cognitive types are mental blueprints for things like "dog". A CT is a multimodal, sensory-motor schema, a fluid set of neuro-cognitive "recognition instructions" built from every direct or indirect encounter you have ever had with a dog a vast array of experience that makes the concept ''live in you''.
 ** Nuclear content is the minimal core public version of the concept that allows us to discuss dogs - "They are furry animals with four legs and a tail that go woof".
 ** Molar content is the totality of society's knowledge of the concept. While the CT is a fluid complex rhizomic structure, the molar content feeds off of and represents a rich, well-tested and structured 360 view of the concept.
-*Hofstadter sees analogy as the core of cognition. He argues that analogy is not a luxury of high-level thought; it is the fundamental mechanism that creates categories in the first place. "Every concept we have is essentially nothing but a tightly packaged bundle of analogies, and all we do when we think is to move fluidly from concept to concept." Two core concepts are:
+* Hofstadter sees analogy as the core of cognition. He argues that analogy is not a luxury of high-level thought; it is the fundamental mechanism that creates categories in the first place. "Every concept we have is essentially nothing but a tightly packaged bundle of analogies, and all we do when we think is to move fluidly from concept to concept." Two core concepts are:
-**Conceptual slippage - When encountering a new situation, your brain doesn't need a perfect category match, but can stretch existing category allowing them to morph sufficiently to take on the novelty. A concept is an active, elastic bubble that stretches to accommodate new things that are "sort of like" old things.
+** Conceptual slippage - When encountering a new situation, your brain doesn't need a perfect category match, but can stretch existing category allowing them to morph sufficiently to take on the novelty. A concept is an active, elastic bubble that stretches to accommodate new things that are "sort of like" old things.
-**Chunking - is how we build complex knowledge by binding small, scattered concepts together via analogy and chunking them into a single, higher-level concept.
+** Chunking - is how we build complex knowledge by binding small, scattered concepts together via analogy and chunking them into a single, higher-level concept.
-*Dennett sees concepts as shortcuts that allow us to ignore billions of irrelevant physical details and make split-second predictions about complex things. They are "real patterns" that track real mathematical patterns in nature, even if those patterns are messy and full of noise.
+* Dennett sees concepts as shortcuts that allow us to ignore billions of irrelevant physical details and make split-second predictions about complex things. They are "real patterns" that track real mathematical patterns in nature, even if those patterns are messy and full of noise.

Robert.adlington at 13:32, 6 June 2026

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	** Cognitive types are mental blueprints for things like "dog". A CT is a multimodal, sensory-motor schema, a fluid set of neuro-cognitive "recognition instructions" built from every direct or indirect encounter you have ever had with a dog a vast array of experience that makes the concept ''live in you''.		** Cognitive types are mental blueprints for things like "dog". A CT is a multimodal, sensory-motor schema, a fluid set of neuro-cognitive "recognition instructions" built from every direct or indirect encounter you have ever had with a dog a vast array of experience that makes the concept ''live in you''.
	** Nuclear content is the minimal core public version of the concept that allows us to discuss dogs - "They are furry animals with four legs and a tail that go woof".		** Nuclear content is the minimal core public version of the concept that allows us to discuss dogs - "They are furry animals with four legs and a tail that go woof".
	** Molar content is the totality of society's knowledge of the concept.		** Molar content is the totality of society's knowledge of the concept. While the CT is a fluid complex rhizomic structure, the molar content feeds off of and represents a rich, well-tested and structured 360 view of the concept.
			*Hofstadter sees analogy as the core of cognition. He argues that analogy is not a luxury of high-level thought; it is the fundamental mechanism that creates categories in the first place. "Every concept we have is essentially nothing but a tightly packaged bundle of analogies, and all we do when we think is to move fluidly from concept to concept." Two core concepts are:
			**Conceptual slippage - When encountering a new situation, your brain doesn't need a perfect category match, but can stretch existing category allowing them to morph sufficiently to take on the novelty. A concept is an active, elastic bubble that stretches to accommodate new things that are "sort of like" old things.
			**Chunking - is how we build complex knowledge by binding small, scattered concepts together via analogy and chunking them into a single, higher-level concept.
			*Dennett sees concepts as shortcuts that allow us to ignore billions of irrelevant physical details and make split-second predictions about complex things. They are "real patterns" that track real mathematical patterns in nature, even if those patterns are messy and full of noise.

Robert.adlington at 16:54, 5 June 2026

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	~~This is~~ a page to ~~the~~ concepts ~~category~~. I ~~wonder~~ if it ~~worked?~~		I've done a lot of reading and taken a lot of notes. Now, on this page, I want to start pulling out concepts that I want to think about. I can start them on this page and then if they get rich enough they can move out to their own page.

			== Concept/Category ==

			* Aristotle - argues that everything could be fit into a strict logical hierarchy and that objects have essential and accidental properties.

			* Kant - argues that are born with built in mental categories and that are minds actively shape our experience of reality.
			* Wittgenstein argues that there are no perfect definitions and that it is impossible to rigidly delineate a category such as games.
			* Vygotsky argues that concepts are socially and culturally constructed and that we learn to see the world in the ways that our culture has agree it is.
			* Eleanor Rosch in the 1970s argues that categories are based around a kind of mental average or prototype
			* Eco contrasted a hierarchical "dictionary" vision of categories and a boundless network of categories that he sees as a rhizome - a tangled underground root system
			** Cognitive types are mental blueprints for things like "dog". A CT is a multimodal, sensory-motor schema, a fluid set of neuro-cognitive "recognition instructions" built from every direct or indirect encounter you have ever had with a dog a vast array of experience that makes the concept ''live in you''.
			** Nuclear content is the minimal core public version of the concept that allows us to discuss dogs - "They are furry animals with four legs and a tail that go woof".
			** Molar content is the totality of society's knowledge of the concept.

Robert.adlington: Created page with "This is a page to the concepts category. I wonder if it worked?"

2026-06-05T16:13:03Z

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