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Slash-and-blur worldculture 

The simplest things have the most names The simplest things have the most names, as they can arise in more frameworks and their jargons. The named names then develop their own worlds of influence. The strike or score, a slash or scratch is, almost, the simplest mark. A dot or spot or peck is simpler, but less clearly an intentional…

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Worlding on Saturday morning

I put Saturday morning aside to write on the world and moral philosophy from a framework based in evolution’s minimum viable product. It means most of the time I am pointing out that things are outcomes and not causes, or, worse, causal explanations of many things are not necessary for them to be done in the first place. Examples of…

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Anyone for cake?

In the self-help article How ‘Should’ Makes Us Stupid — And How to Get Smart Again by Jane Elliott (warning medium.com member only access, but you might get a freebie or two), we get a number of usages on how bad “should” is. This rap sheet lists the misdemeanours that we, as in you, you shouldy miscreant, commit when using…

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Sydney or the Bush

In At home in the world I put down how I got to by thinking about ‘home’ and the relationship to/with 'world'. And in writing that decided to separate out the thoughts about home/world and it relationship, in my head at least, with country and country/city, and empire. I cover part of that at Worldbuilding 101. But here are the…

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At home in the world

The other day — in a library — I briefly looked at a book. And thought, ‘another one I’ll not have time to read.’ But I gave it a quick peruse. John S. Allen’s Home: How Habitat Made Us Human is a science essay book which goes over common ground to reframe some assumptions or two that we have in…

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