As I write this line I am already aware that I have produced a few strategies below. Index: Strategy: Day Plans Strategy: A Week in a Day Strategy: Thinking About It Strategy: Planning for Castles in the Air Strategy: Day Plans Here’s an idea: Establish a ritual upon starting the day for delineating some plans for tasks to be conducted (i.e. during that same day). I envision these day plans...
Faced with the empty page and a non-existent word count, the text unfolds like a strange and alien embryo that finds itself on unmarked paths; an existential development built in a primitive semantics.
Here are some things that I wrote. Project “Project” [Here I am describing an intention to focus activities by categories defined as projects]. A project can be anything and there can be any number, but practical considerations will double as reasonable constraints in both those instances. A study of a range is not necessary at the moment since I am interested in those projects...
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac [1714-1780] France Sensationism: “Sensations are modifications of our being. To understand them as images of something distinct from us is to treat them as “ideas” rather than simply as “sensations,” and that is an operation that is so far from being automatic that it exceeds the capacities of animals.” Although they lend themselves to being thought. Idea:...
Contents: A post-modern epiphany Reading Scaruffi: Gaining perspective on chapter 4 A Post-Modern Epiphany One thing I’d like to note, real quick, is the analogy of Alice in Wonderland. It is possible to realize that all the rules and cultural institutions (e.g. library, bank, supermarket, school, army) are as sensical and straight-forward as are the Queen of Hearts and the rabbit in a...
I’m noticing a pattern… some sort of correlation between a quantum unit of dates and the flow of time… but to what end? And how does a continuum translate into an array of discrete units? But more pressing and vexing: to what end? Tick tock, tick tock, tick… NEW DAY. Hmmm. Pressing forth into the fourth chapter of Scaruffi’s challenge Prequel; or, In last’s...
Contents: Philosopher Briefs: Christian Wolff Dear Diary and Focus of Journaling “What is this,” asked Mr. Self-Referential. Philosopher Briefs: Christian Wolff – Take 2 (In which I write a little bit about my previous [mis]understanding of Wolff, and lead into a discussion of his relationship with Leibniz) Yesterday I had initiated my intention. Today I hope to overcome these...
This is, QED.
Philosopher Briefs: Christian Wolff
And so I begin another entry in my potentially splendid (although insufficiently sordid) intended series that will be an edifying collection of summarised…
Michael Graziano attention schema theory (I read the article “How the light gets out” in Aeon Magazine, and positioned the details against the backdrop of theory I’ve learned from what I’ve read of Scaruffi on consciousness. I’ve stolen this single sentence biography from the same article: Michael Graziano is a neuroscientist, novelist and composer. He is a professor...
Contents: Dear Diary (#Life) We Interrupt (#McCarthyQuote) What’s New (#Scaruffi) Meta (aka “In yesterday’s iinstalmentof Shai’s rambling linguistics”): Yesterday I finished off writing a little bit (just a tad, really) about my ongoing note taking relating to Scaruffi’s book. I’d also written about one of (many) films I had watched yesterday, namely the...
