Posts on writing, consciousness and altered states

Sumerian clay tablet inscribed with the text of the poem Inanna and Ebih -- Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago
Sumerian clay tablet inscribed with the text of the poem Inanna and Ebih - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago
  1. "Literature" more generally
  2. The sky pool
    • The quote on Aldous Huxley at the end.
    • this one links it to monotropism in hindsight
  3. Writing good out of me worlds better than the old fool's selfie
    • Julia Kristeva, Robert Graves & Fyodor Dostoevsky
  4. Bookending worlds - Solzhenitsyn Religion, tanks, spirituality & yoga mats.
  5. Robert Ardrey
  6. My writing
  7. Books and their writing
  8. Iris Murdoch's Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992: London: Chatto & Windus) IN these I discover that I have been doing moral philosophy if timelessly avant la lettre.
    1. From selfing in worlding to sovereignty: me worlding Iris Murdoch's Wittgenstein
    2. Iris Murdoch and the good of it
    3. Noting Iris Murdoch quoting Wittgenstein and friends
    4. Getting Ursula le Guin and Iris Murdoch to chat via LLM chatbots
  9. And poetsandnovelists
    1. Werner's Cullen's Keats'
    2. The writer as an emperor The first known author was a nepo-baby
    3. ritual embeddings, festive rants Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
    4. Clans of the idios kosmos Philip K. Dick
    5. From Chapter X of Middlemarch by George Eliot and also Key to All Middleworlds
    6. Droga [Świat] — Czesław Miłosz rendering the Polish
    7. Art is his religion. Worlding is their worlding. James Joyce's Portrait of the artist as a young man
  10. And LLM/AI/Stochastic parrots
    1. Me third go at a zero shot, by analogy metaphor carried me here
    2. Analogy shots
    3. metaphor me a ratio just like you
    4. asking an LLM about pronouns and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time (march 2023)
  11. Consciousness
    1. unconscious but doing languaging “Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from general anesthesia.”