Cȯsꭑọ ∴ ọꭑƨȯƆ @cosmiccitizen@schelling.pt

Begin with a single nerve cell. A nerve maintains stasis with a negative electrical charge relative to the positive charge outside. This resting potential will determine its stimulation and facilitate the rest of the reaction. This resting potential is the sign-vehicle: it is that affordance by which some reference will interact. That reference will be something like a neurotransmitter. This is a type of stimulus that expresses its character the sign-vehicle at the moment of firing. ...

It's important to note that this is a *conclusion* to be arrived at after deliberating something together rather than a *premise* to be assumed before engaging in deliberations.

According to GH Mead, the final outcome of participating in the dreadful deliberations of democratic life is not to achieve any particular policy, but to arrive at a fuller and more substantiated understanding of **what the hell are those yahoos thinking?**

It's interesting to observe a public space with lots of windows while people are evaluating the likelihood of a dangerous weather event. There's definitely a hush. The energy gets a little quieter and harsher.

Evaluation, social scanning: the paleo-mammalian brain is in control.

The soundtrack: listening to Faust.
The vibe: getting ChatGPT to do something that's going to launch your career to the next level.

Goethe wouldn't be Goethe in the time of the Peasants' Rebellion. Goethe had to be in the Sturm und Drang to be Goethe. But because Goethe was there, then, he could produce Faust.

There are some points in cultural history (Hundred Schools-era China, classical Athens, Elizabethan London, Scottish Enlightenment, Jena Group, etc.) where the social conversations about humans provide easy on-ramps for people to develop metacognition.

By sheer and utter coincidence, these same periods are also those that tend to produce the "canonical" classics of art and culture in their respective cultures.

Embodiment? You think medical embodiment is the refuge of a metaphysical ground of self? Your sense of embodiment is something you got out of a medical dictionary, or worse, the medieval equivalent of a medical dictionary that was translated by an isolated Buddhist monk trying to fix his meditation posture and then mis-translated and spiritualized by a late-colonial German and taken up by a bunch of hippies in the postwar period.
You do not actually feel like a body!
More symbols! More symbols!

You can't "kill the part of you that cringes." Cringing is part of how you know there is a subjective "you" inside. Cringing is one of a few physiological responses by which your innate subjective experience can produce any qualitative significance to otherwise-empty signs like "I," "myself," etc. If you could not cringe, or enjoy yourself, or scare yourself, etc., you would be a philosophical zombie. You would be nothing other than a name on a birth certificate, or an envelope, or a gravestone.

The singularity already happened.

The trick to how it all works, how logic works and the whole of it, is that the interpretant/translatant formally interacts with non-efficient causation. Representation works because of this. Math works because of this. Formal necessity is dragging us forward into the future through symbol-use.

Humans emerged as a distinctive species 300k-500k years ago.

Humans started making symbols about 45k years ago.

Humans started making writing about 5k years ago.

Today humans literally are manipulating objects outside of our solar system with our symbols. Humans have begun rewriting the chemistry of life with our symbols. Humans are developing coordinated action to alter the chemistry of our planetary atmosphere through symbol-use.

How old were you when you realized that the finious qualities of symbols are the only reason why humans are capable of coordinating agency beyond isolated agents in isolated contexts.

Physis is tychic

He's not really a bad guy but he's a belligerent drunk. It's the thing that's hardest to like about him.

The neighbor is roaring drunk.

To be clear, I have reason to believe this person feels WAY more trapped/unhappy after making these extreme changes. I think the extreme changes were supposed to quiet the voices of self-criticism but only shifted the target.

Probably not an original observation, but in my life the person who has made the most extreme personal changes is also the person who secretly feels really really trapped and unhappy.