why we should

Mathematicianss are shamans, like poets they don't know it. To frame this conundrum of metaphor versus identity I will first look ‘mapping’ as used in mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism (off you go, transport yourself to us all). It would appear that mathematicians use the analogy of ‘mapping’ with some Greek-originating words like isomorphic, or morely nounly, isomorphism to label the process while often retaining ‘mapping’ for…

Jaar : a pidgin-midwifery conlang 1.4, July 2026 by meika loofs samorzewskiversion 1.4, 2026-07-25 transferred from original html v1.3 2020-10-16. So first published on a wordpress site at: formeika. [1]. See also meika.loofs-samorzewski.com, whyweshould (self-hosted) and substack.com to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life [2] Jaar is a meta-conlang, a constructed language ennabler for speakers with 'no' common language to help create a working pidgin…

The world is a blur at best. Bad worlding can root itself in definitions, using them like hammers for everything in sight. Possibly because of kosmophasia. Good intentions can go either way, badly as often as best. Bad intentions are the same effort without— that within— with no one — worldless. They will destroy the world in order to save…

I'll be attending to how I read a post, any post, how my Divergent self works as a reading brain (as opposed to the Diachronic/Episodic selves on offer below in Bry Willis' post). It is an extended comment, but in from is just a series of episodic notes that follow the sections from:- Willis, Bry. “The Administrative Soul.” Substack newsletter.

Gerald J. Beyer. “Solidarity by Grace, Nature or Both? The Possibility of Human Solidarity in the Light of Evolutionary Biology and Catholic Moral Theology.” The Heythrop Journal 54.5 (2013): via academia Web Accessed 26 June 2026. [https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.12030] I am fairly harsh on Catholicism, that variation of Christianity with its origins as a rogue version of an imperial cult gone into universal…

In the beginning was the tool, and the tool was the world. The world was with us and we were the world. Seeing the world was a tool, we said to each other, “Aren’t we clever?” and immediately forgot what we were doing. In case we got in trouble. Some say, to their credit, they remember themselves, but then, immediately…