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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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06:27, 29 December 2025 Robert.adlington talk contribs created page File:Random Robby 2.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