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19 October 2026

  • 14:2614:26, 19 October 2026 Proto (hist | edit) [14,643 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Introduction - Ariomania == * - == 1. Genesis - Lingua Obscura == * - == 2. Sacred Spring - Proto-Indo-European == * - == 3. First Among Equals - Analtolian == * - == 4. Over the Range - Tocharian == * - == 5. Lark Rising - Celtic, Germanic, Italic == * - == 6. The Wandering Horse - Indo-Iranian == * - == 7. Northern Idyll - Baltic and Slavic == * - == 8. They Came from Steep Wilusa - Albanian, Armenian, Greek == * - == Conclusion - Shibboleth == * -") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

17 October 2026

  • 14:1214:12, 17 October 2026 Ways of Seeing (hist | edit) [11,440 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== 1. Seeing, Images, and Mystification == * Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. * It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know if never settled. * We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is...") Tag: Visual edit

16 October 2026

  • 15:4015:40, 16 October 2026 Shadow Ticket (hist | edit) [2,450 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* 48. We want to believe that objects are pure, innocent, when the truth is that they lie open to every vibration that comes their way, law-abiding, criminal, everything in between. * 94. Does cheese, as a living entity, also possess consciousness? * 159. How's the amnesia, forgotten anything interesting lately? * 167. ...not only are there more passengers aboard the Stupendica than at first appeared, but their numbers also have been strangely increasing day by day, desp...") Tag: Visual edit

4 October 2026

3 October 2026

  • 08:2608:26, 3 October 2026 Hyperpolitics (hist | edit) [9,930 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== 1. A Grin Without a Face == * Evolution of politics: ** 1914-1989 - Mass Politics (High Politicization / High Institutionalization) - Citizens engaged in politics through highly structured, collective bodies like mass political parties, robust trade unions, and deeply rooted community or religious organizations. ** 1989-2008 - Postpolitics (Low Politicization / Low Institutionalization) - Elites decamped into sealed-off, technocratic institutions, and civil society b...") Tag: Visual edit

25 September 2026

  • 10:2910:29, 25 September 2026 Words, Thoughts, and Theories (hist | edit) [42,374 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== 1. The Other Socratic Method == = I: The Theory Theory = == 2. The Scientist as Child == == 3. Theories, Modules, and Empirical Generalizations == = II: Evidence for the Theory Theory = == 4. The Child's Theory of Appearances == == 5. The Child's Theory of Actions == == 6. The Child's Theory of Kinds == = III: Theories and Language = == 7. Language and Thought == == 8. The Darwinian Conclusion ==")

14 September 2026

7 September 2026

  • 17:3117:31, 7 September 2026 The Knowledge Illusion (hist | edit) [24,778 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Introduction: Ignorance and the Community of Knowledge == * - == 1: What We Know == * - == 2: Why We Think == * - == 3: How We Think == * - == 4: Why We Think What Isn't So == * - == 5: Thinking with Our Bodies and the World == * - == 6: Thinking with Other People == * - == 7: Thinking with Technology == * - == 8: Thinking About Science == * - == 9: Thinking About Politics == * - == 10: The New Definition of Smart == * - == 11: Making People Smart == * - =...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched

21 August 2026

  • 15:5315:53, 21 August 2026 G: A Novel (hist | edit) [6,288 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* 41. There are quite distinct categories in his own mind into which he fits trees. Ones he likes and ones he does not like (without reason). Ones that are too easy to climb. Ones that frighten him a little to climb. Ones with a view at the top and ones without. There are also more complicated categories. Trees are alive but not alive as animals are. What is the difference? First, the tree is more accessible. Second the tree is more mysterious. Third, the tree is immovab...") Tag: Visual edit

20 August 2026

  • 16:3816:38, 20 August 2026 The Unconscious (hist | edit) [1,552 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In psychoanalysis and other psychological theories, the unconscious mind (or the unconscious) is the part of the psyche that is not available to introspection. == The Freudian Unconscious == * Contains a hidden reservoir of repressed conflict, containing selfish desires, trauma, and aggressive and sexual desires. * The mind uses repression and other defense mechanisms to push anxiety-provoking desires down. * The id has primitive, pleasure-seeking drives and is trying t...")

16 August 2026

  • 15:2315:23, 16 August 2026 Quotations (hist | edit) [167 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Carl Jung Quotes == <dpl> namespace = 0 titlematch = % include = #jung_% regexp = /begin="jung_/ format = ,* %PAGE%: \n, </dpl>")
  • 09:3709:37, 16 August 2026 The Red Book: Liber Novus (hist | edit) [69,851 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Introduction == * As Jung saw it, part of us lives in the present and the other part is connected to the centuries. * "I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love." * "If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional prob...") Tag: Visual edit

15 August 2026

  • 16:0116:01, 15 August 2026 Thinking in Numbers (hist | edit) [11,321 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Preface == * Like literary fiction, mathematical imagination entertains pure possibilities. Often we are barely aware of it, but the play between numerical concepts saturates the way we experience the world. == Family Values == * When we think and when we perceive, just as much as when we count, our mind uses sets. Our possible thoughts and perceptions about these sets can range almost without limit. * Though a set as familiar to our understanding as that of "anima...") Tag: Visual edit

14 August 2026

  • 11:0811:08, 14 August 2026 Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing (hist | edit) [4,556 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Language Teacher * Part of teaching a language is educating your students' guesses, taming them. * Grammar and memory come from playing with words, rubbing them on the fingers and on the tongue, experiencing the various meaning they give off. Textbooks are no substitute. You Are What You Say * Words, regardless of their pedigree, make only as much sense as we choose to give them. We are the teachers, not they. To possess fluency, or verbal intelligence, is to anim...") Tag: Visual edit

9 August 2026

  • 20:3820:38, 9 August 2026 The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise (hist | edit) [4,762 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise * The paradox of Zeno of Elea, as James indicated, is an attempt upon not only the reality of space but the more invulnerable and sheer reality of time. * Zeno is incontestable, unless we admit the ideality of space and time. If we accept idealism, if we accept the concrete growth of the perceived, then we shall elude the mise en abime of the paradox. Would this bit of Greek obscurity affect our concept of the universe? -...") Tag: Visual edit

7 August 2026

6 August 2026

5 August 2026

  • 13:5113:51, 5 August 2026 Habit (hist | edit) [3,754 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There are various forms of "habitual" behavior that we undertake unconsciously or semi-consciously or are driven to undertake: * Innate or reflexive - We are born with drives and tendencies that enable us to survive: ** bodily behaviors - such as breathing, digesting, evacuating, heart beating, etc ** caregiver bonding - turning toward a touch on the cheek and sucking on objects to feed ** social behaviors - We have a tendency to look for faces, to pay attention to lang...") Tag: Visual edit

4 August 2026

3 August 2026

  • 17:1317:13, 3 August 2026 Phenomenology (hist | edit) [7,769 bytes] Robert.adlington (talk | contribs) (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