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In product development, defining or outlining a “Minimum viable product” (MVP) is a key part of the process used to develop a going concern in business. It's a tactic of specialisation, and is kin to core business as a strategy. Today I am using it as a type of Anthropic principle, where when we ask, say, “why is the sky…

Categories versus practices: moral leadership & teenagers running amok

In today’s psyche.co essay, Adolescence is a ‘use it or lose it’ time for moral development I’ve learned about moral foundations theory, and as I read it, I felt like pointing out, or shouting, that using the word categories, for practices, might help with tick-a-box data collection, but can lead to boxed-in thinking. As a failed poet I always grumpily fume against the…

Reading Gilles Deleuze’s Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life. Zone Books. Cambridge, Mass: MIT. 2005. ISBN9781890951252 I’ve begun a project in which I tackle writing that I find difficult to read. This in order to write in a more understandable way. That is, to see if helps put me in their shoes. I found this book by Deleuze on a dear friend’s…

wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropism Monotropism is a person's tendency to focus their attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel. This cognitive strategy has been posited as the central underlying feature of autism. The theory of monotropism was developed by Dinah Murray, Wenn Lawson and Mike Lesser starting in the 1990s, and first published in 2005.[1] Lawson's further work on the theory…

(midjourney 2023: failed on Greek red-black vase style, failed on pear tree, failed on duck-rabbit on mushroom) prompt /imagine Ludwig Wittgenstein reading St Augustine of Hippo under a pear tree, greek red-black vase style, a rabbit-duck watches Ludwig from a low mushroom (stolen wrist-pears are not coloured?) Miles is well aware of the… —gap. I am reading his newly [re]-formed…

down to the sky, up to the pool… —and Colin Wilson I was cataloguing Colin Wilson’s memoir The Angry Years, and I thought, who is he again? Colin Wilson is one of those boomer generational figures who have had little impact on my on cohort of genXers. His books would have passed my gaze in second hand book shops, in…

Mapping Christian byways of worldbuilding by way of a flowchart. an aside The usage of terms like “worldbuilding” here is the reason this writing has been written, i.e. I hope I can more fully explore and explain what wworlding is, as a substitute for a lot of 'things' that are outcomes of the moral/worlding urge, but we treat as causal,…

The re-post below this introduction, was originally posted as The fable that is modern literature in 2021. It describes an experience from a decade before at Parables of Submission, Fables of Truth-Based Creativity. Reposted here because it relates to literature and thus to world-building, and thus worlding and morality more generally. Basically literature is always fantasy where it prefers non-flat…

There is this wonderful book written by Lorraine Daston called Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures. Princeton ; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780691156989). I say wonderful because it is one of those histories which illuminates by way of the taphonomy of etymology, of usage in their historical contexts, rather than, say, a list…

This last week I woke up at about 4am and actually got up out of bed, to write in my notebook, some questions that follow from Newtonian space-time metaphors. I mention this getting up to write down, because it was quite complex sleep thinking, and usually when I think at 4am I tend to remain asleep. My waking hours when…

Today I am having: Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach. Continuum, 2009 by Mark Dooley. 978-1-84706-013-6 In a first reading this book, it occurred to me, I might be becoming a gap-hunter, or, better, as in more accurate, I might become a hunter of what people throw in the gap. There is always a gap, so why hunt that?…

World child

A table of concerns, if not a table of contents. The… —gap. Gaps of knowledge, incompleteness of systems, that type of lack and what we feel we should do about them. Janus ratio, what's the point? An attempt to use an old god to do better than throwing stuff into the… —gap. Fideism, churches, religions: devotees versus the empire How…

Over the last week I have been reading Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome. books.google.com/ngrams/ It’s a whole world of pain. For more discussion on Appropriation (art) and Reappropriation see Mary Beth Willard’s 'Why It’s Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists' So, at dinner the other night I was at the second stage of…

metaphor analogies you by way of the world like the way coins are words You might argue that ‘the cell as a factory’ is only a metaphor. You could say that scientific metaphors should be judged based on how useful they are, and no metaphor is perfect. The ‘cell as a factory’ metaphor has undoubtedly been useful in guiding the trajectory of…

Krebs cycle is another pivot, or hinge, the threshold where Janus dances, the gate is a dance surfing a flow of protons. Consciousness re-iterates this in/by/through/up/out/ involutions, some meta, some complexified, some hindsighted into logic, like the way a bear eats berries to pile on fat for winter. There is a routine there that rites iterate, same same but different, hymns to…

Or, not what I had planned, which involved a matrix of ratios on self/world:reality This is a planned post on proportions of the Janus ratio. But not the planned post. Planning got me nowhere. I ended up somewhere else, but at least I am not lost. ‘Planned’ means that I had an idea, and began mulling it over, thinking about…

In a few comments elsewhere I have started using the term Janus ratio, to describe our threshold of attention, the gate on which it pivots is the urge to live. I’ll try to make sense of it, by some attempts at definition of this neologism, below. The Janus ratio describes the proportions of attention we each direct within and without, consciously and/or conscientiously.

I've used the term the "Janus ratio" to indicate our relations to the… —gap. There are many gaps. One gap is our view in-out. In self, out there world. Here the Janus ratio indicates where our attention allocates it self in world. The point is unobtainable, thus the dancing, and hand waving. The ritual and the dead certainty. The hope…

Julian B. Barbour The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time. First edition. New York: Basic Books, 2020. ISBN 9780465095469 Given my interest in Janus the two faced god of the threshold and gates, and my use of it in a metaphor to describe our gap dancing abilities (and difficulties), I bought Julian Barbour’s book on physics, and, well, cosmology,…

Sister Wendy was a Carmelite nun who gained famed as an interpreter of art, especially on free-to-air television in the 1990s, and whose passion for this vocation was irrepressible. All images of text and quotes are grabs from Sister Wendy Beckett's The Mystery of Love: Saints in Art through the Centuries (London: HarperCollins, 1996) #ISBN0551030121 The Carmelites are a Catholic…

This post follows on from discovering that belief in belief, or believing in believing, or having faith in faith— is a heresy in the biggest Christian Churches, because obedience. I covered this in : I was at work when first writing those posts, and while cataloguing books into a library system I discovered the following from Arnold Lunn’s The Revolt…

Post that mention narcissists or psychopaths Casewell’s Jaspers, but meika’s Deleuzian Bergsonism. Posts that are about narcssists or psychopaths Posts that are about how narcssists and psychopaths differ from similar looking behaviours on that self-centred spectrum the sky pool -- Colin Wilson and diagnoses generally and specific

Aporia, incompleteness, knowledge gaps Gap hunting duck-rabbits with Miles, in homage to Ludwig Wittgenstein Posts that mention the gap Fideism & Obedience : the extra bit about St Augustine of Hippo Fideism, reason and… —the gap that is always there Mark Dooley's Roger Scruton and my modest proposal in which I outline I hunt that which is thrown into the……

To build a better world, we should destroy the Catholic Church Fideism & Obedience : the extra bit about St Augustine of Hippo Sister Wendy on love as an obedient art Fideism, reason and… —the gap that is always there Inappropriation (Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome) Flowcharting faith-based faith versus faith-obeying-reason added here…

Belief in belief is regarded as a heresy called Fideism by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Churches. To me this appears… —odd. Why would a church or religion not belief in belief, not have faith in faith? Surely this is prior to belief in somepiece of dogma. But for most established Christianities, not only is it unrequired, it is…

To face tomorrow is to world today, expecting… a child hopefully fears its innocence and naives a plan and so mishaps the world, any… —all, does not exist. But is where we are headed, never to arrive we adult into our worsts, see, and the world lies before us in a moment of care that says fare well. The World—“Pam-A”…

MEIKA LOOFS SAMORZEWSKI MARCH 2024 one might argue, you might cook, we might eat, we might talk metaphor analogies you by way of the world like the way coins are words metaphor me a ratio just like you a halting problem I've been thinking about for three decades Analogy shots general intelligence and the inner stochastic parrot Me third go…

Early in 2023 a Cardinal of the Catholic Church was buried in Sydney, Australia, amid tearful protest and weepy hagiography. I leave the description of George Pell’s life to others. The key I wish to turn here is the context for the choices that determines conscience: George Pell flew higher than any Australian priest, but he chose career over the safety of children…

Why we should discusses what is broadly called moral philosophy. It does so on the assumption that evolution is key. The first essay which sets this out is (from 2019): Why we should : an introduction by memoir into the implications of the Egalitarian Revolution of the Paleolithic, or, Anyone for cake? RSS feeds feed.xml or feed.json If you wish…

Self-care as salvation-- all authenticity but no responsibility Deborah Casewell in her aeon.co essay raises some notice on Karl Jaspers’ existentialist angst-mongering, how it has been mis-categorized (by Sartre) such that Jaspers as an inventor of the word existentialism he gave it away after losing control of the branding in the marketplace of ideas, but, Casewell reminds us, the “focus on the individual, the importance…