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Framework: The Existential Thought and Contextualization Thereof — I Apologize For Any Insufficiencies

Remember: All of this is being done through the medium that is language (or, rather, its indirect representation through writing). It is easy to forget this.

Introduction

The existential thought is the most important thought. It makes everything else fade away. I will give several descriptions and then context for those.

Descriptions

Life is the world
The feeling of exit from suspension of disbelief applied to this world
Language and sensory experience (incl. emotions) are all
Noticing moments of lucidity between long pauses of subconsciousness
Hypermania
Waking up just enough to know you are dreaming
Noticing your continuity and identity with your previous similarly-feeling self and lack of continuity and identity with anyone else who has inhabited this body

Context

Fairly chronological. History has been rewritten to some extent...

I tend to state things as fact. This is because it takes too much time to write "rn i feel that..." before and "i guess" after every goddamn sentence, though that would be more accurate.

Each word is a tapestry of connotation and denotation. See Wittgenstein on Esperanto.
Wittgenstein: Esperanto. The feeling of disgust we get if we utter an invented word with invented derivative syllables. The word is cold, lacking in associations, and yet it plays at being “language”. A system of purely written signs would not disgust us so much. (from "Culture and Value") True, but don't be this grumpy.
Wittgenstein: Words as tools, not labels.
Christianson&Chater: Language as Charades and Endosymbiosis+Coevolution
Offsetting subjectivity: by making definitions more "formal" you just move the ambiguity of natural language to the explanation of the formal notation. This connects with the first part of math, the part in the domain of humans and language: we have no choice but to accept being stuck in this part. We cannot access the garden directly. Formalization is an organizational/practical tool, not a metaphysical improvement.
The really mundane: To remain silent of.
The afterlife will be chaotic and disorienting, you will go through all cases where your brain-pattern coincidentally forms in sequence. Yeah, ok.
You may as well assume an afterlife (or survival!). Do not assume lack of experience. Experience is all: Lack of experience does not occur. When under full anesthesia, you jump in your consciousness, you do not "feel the nothing". When you think you will die, I say: You will live, or be in a new life.
The existential thought is absolute and permanent, only interpretation and words will change, I knew years ago that this would be true, and it would hold up no matter what, and I was right. I knew I would be.
In math, any field could be foundations
Phonemes are family resembalances
Be explicit about experiments in theories (like Bohr) observer problem then fake? + experiments are really just any type of observation here,not just labs.
Application of "Causality" and "Real" outside of a universes context ( east west of earth analogy ) is unhelpful and confusing
Awe of exploration.
Things are crazy, in many respects. Sources for such respects: math, biolg, philosophy of language (wittgenstein). Try to absorb as much of these. More awe.
Observing an internal undesirability does not disappear it!
Math cannot be taken away.
Math is study of abstract patterns, e.g. cardinals, ordinals, groups, etc. patterns let us apply previous info in new cases
Math is cool as the topics are so self-absorbed and go ridiculously far
The important thing in Wittgenstein is not only that language fails to describe often, but the fact that what we are doing now and always is through language — reading, talking, listening — it is always there, but we are not noticing it.
mundane (momentary patterns).
You must explain philosophy of language before others because that philosophy will be transmitted through language
Walking in a straight line — weird suicide.
Recognize the apparatus we are under — and how it confuses(?) me, then — do whatever, but with a plan for how to survive/ not — and do mathematics research?
Indescribability of aesthetic
Humans shape, huh?? Similar to semantic satiation.
Nothing makes me happier than seeing a work of art made by someone who I can tell thinks in exactly the same way as me
All true theorems are equivalent, so equivalence is only useful as a concept relative to our current lack of understanding
Science’s only axiom is that patterns usually continue — but this makes it a religion, as grothendieck said. Zeilberger: Math is indeed a religion, but it has too many sects!
Wittgenstein: Philosophy is therapy
The concept of places, mathematics caters to with structures.
This is also a place.
Numbers become much more beautiful when viewed not as digit series but as products of primes
"Have to draw a line somewhere"/"Gone too far"/"Only true to a point" is often a fallacy ignoring a categorical difference, e.g. fundamentalism, socialism, prescriptivism: my problem with someone using slurs is not the words they use, just as my problem with guy with nazi flag is not the flag, the slurs or flag just make it easier to tell they are racist etc.
Prescriptivism is Psychotic
Often, Categorization is Psychotic
Choose the social constructs/abstractions one wants to participate in, choose any from,Causality, Categorization (eg Gender, Sexuality), Language, Usefulness/Applicability/Practicality, Art…
God shows themself as a garden of apparitions: The 2nd world.
Prescriptivism is an appeal to nonexistent authority, are there other cases?
Criticizing language is a nonsense activity as there was no designer, you are complaining to the void as if you criticize the wind for knocking your house over. It is natural phenomenon.
A DIVISION — language (humanity), 2nd part of math (god); I used to see this as personal only, but I now see it as a real important thing
There is no foundation, it is bottomless. — this is to be found both in language and math( via Wittgenstein and Gödel, or just heavy enough attempts to reject)
The garden is there, inventing math is inventing the tools to probe the garden, to see flashes of it. In math, definitions are invented, results are discovered.
If you say a word "has no meaning," you are using the word meaning in a way different than the usual way. Keep this in mind.
Humans create mathematical definitions using what we have in our domain (natural language) as tools to probe the other domain (the garden of apparitions). Each definition gives us a new perspective to take a picture of the Garden from. Some perspectives face right into walls, but some (e.g. FS groups) give us a sizable slice in view. We want may perspectives though, to see that the artifacts persist between perspectives, and are real pieces of the tapestry. (E.g. Steiner,perfect codes, fs groups, lie groups)
Math is two parts, definitions(tools) in the realm of language, and the garden where the pictures are taken, in the other. This "solves" invented/discovered bs. The second part is what is usually seen as beautiful by mathematicians. The first part can be beautiful too, but in a way as like a painting (human) rather than a landscape (natural).
Very important: Distinguish between intended meaning and perceived meaning.
Essentialism (e.g. in some interpretations of transgenderism) is often an unnecessary and confusing abstraction
The problem is not consciousness, it os the opposite, the physical world. Consciousness is the realm in which we exist, the mysterious thing is the stuff we seem to "see" and "hear". Not what we think, we are in that medium already.
As Wittgenstein said, we show that things that seem the same are really different, unlike Hegel, e.g. fix using the same word for two things and acting as if they are equal.
Language as tools or a medium of life or a parasite? A medium of tools.
Clarity going up and down
Absurdity of communication via language
Art is another medium along with Languag
The physical world feeling as IF it is a particular living entity. e.g. the Character of Steam and Smoke, ringing in ears (this is god, in yet another sense)
Such as with Gödel — in formal systems, be explicit about translation into natural lang, don’t use words such as True lightly
Yes, (formalized?) math is an elaborate game of chess (Wittgenstein), but it is much more fun than chess IMO.
Social constructs are ABSTRACTIONS
"Grammatical Gender" is just noun class systems that happen to separate genders. No one is forcing to view it from the perspective of gender.
Humans when instances of a natural phenomenon fail to fit into rigid non-overlapping categories defined by criteria conveniently representable in language.
Doing math for long enough always reaffirms the bottomlessness
Even in mathematics, causality is subjective. Things just happen.
Be a believer, not a theologian.
Identities are categories.
Don’t worry about comparing things you will never have to choose between
I wish only to kill my selfish hunger for a group to identify myself with, whether that be in gender, sexuality, neurodivergence…
Erm, lack of death or the afterlife? Either way. The existential.
In general: be explicit about things usually left implicit, such as the presence of language in the current conversation, the experiment being performed (in a physical theory), or the window of the Mind being looked through to see the physical world currently being described.
The night, and dreams
Wittgenstein: religion is a commitment to a particular perspective.
Wittgenstein: Don’t be afraid of taking nonsense, but pay attention to your nonsense
Truth, real, exist, meaning: very "heavy" words. Avoid as can cause confusion.
"Why" (in one type of usage) is a question of causality, it is as such a subjective reference to a time-dependent phenomenon. It will thus not make sense in all contexts.
God is the conceptualization/incarnation (sense of place/object) of awe.
Be descriptive, not explanatory, eg in science, do not try to explain, but look. Wittgenstein: look, don’t think. Etc. This goes hand in hand with experiencing more awe.
It is all beautiful and terrifying
Thinking of time as something other than just another dimension leads to much confusion, eg the perception of creationism as incompatible with evolution; the universe was not created on a date, it of course was independent of time, as time is internal
The body is just the part of the physical experience that happens to not move very far away from our reference point.
If a field is bottomless, then study what is close and far from the TOP, what kinds of things are easilyj visible and not.
You don’t have to worry about WHY some random physical equation is the way it is if you just act as if it is a model designed to fit observation — which it is.
The problem in some "fuzzy" fields is not the lack of rigorous right/wrong, but the attempted application of solid right/wrong, where there shouldn’t be. Multiple choice questions.
Wittgenstein: the words of a "completely unambiguous" language could never be taught, as the properties which are relevant for definition could never be fully specified. Beetle in box.
What is the real border between connotation and denotation? These themselves are words.
Ramanujan — Garden,Dreams,God
Communication without language is related to dreams? Yes: It is a natural non-linguistic medium. A fiction, like the world.
Is the existential thought The Absurd?
Do ordinals quantify the bottomlessness?
The true anti-unnecessary-abstraction: Everything you do, including utterances, is a decision, so make the decisions with the best outcomes, whatever that means.
Simon Norton — Moonshine is the Word of God.
Clarity > Truth and Happiness — a Zeugma
the existential thought is ultimate clarity.
Sadness is just as fine as happiness if with the same level of clarity.
Post-Ironic toxic positivity
I feel clarity with concise phrases.
You cannot transcend your mind.
Jreg was only half right — We need less thinkers,but not more doers, more lookers.
God let Ramanujan into the garden.
Look also at your mind.
Words have beautifully intricate meanings
"The Garden" is to mathematical results as "The Physical World" is to sensory input: An abstraction to describe (can we avoid the explain-part?). Mathematics is the description of the first abstraction, and science of the second. Now, the question: Do we take these abstractions?
Philosophy is an activity.
Group identity is type of categorization
Essentialism is an abstraction
As like Wittgenstein, pose questions and then demonstrate their unhelpfulness rather than giving answers
Wittgenstein: Rule-following is the crux of semantic understanding
Wittgenstein: Put everything into view, do not deduce anything
It would be misleading to start with anything other than language
Wittgenstein: A philosophical problem has the form: ‘I don’t know my way about.’
Relate back to the goal.
After language, go to the bottom. Our experience. This in two parts (my framework): Our thoughts (in language!) and our sensory input. Are emotions a third? this is all we have.
Maybe just compile distinctions, or, more generally, describe the caverns in detail: this is Wittgensteinian praxis?
On topics where justification is not possible, I must then just state my belief with no justification. This is not bad.
If you don’t start with language, you will get tangled up later
Bouba/Kiki, aesthetic, and clarity
Desc. the phys. Experience of (non)clarity
Evolution exists in a different plane than the science of experiments. It’s a statement about a past that doesn’t exist for us. Darwin: "I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science."
Where no justification is possible for a question’s answer, give no justification, but you may still give an answer. E.g. god, the afterlife, etc.
Symbol/object is one common type of distinction.
A written symbol is a symbol pointing to a symbol(spoken word).
Be careful: Words are cavernous tools rather than symbols.
Langauge and abstraction are one and the same. All abstraction is done through language, and language is the activity of playing with abstractions.
The artistic part of fiction is environment?
Mysticism as a concept
Weeks are a funny thing
Nested deja vu: It always is.
Nausea: Things feel close to my eyes
Global events and history as a concept.
The trap of the exceptional object: there are no true patterns in a finite collection.
One must make the tripartite distinction between Religion, religious institution/organization, and Fundamentalism.
We have to use symbols (words, notations), as we have no direct inlet (of course, this would be impossible since the World was the abstraction of our own thoughts about the sensory). So notice that it is.
The start is the conscious experience, not the physical world. Don’t try to explain how consciousness arises from the universe. The physical is an abstraction of the sensory.
Reminders of the: Music, other art
Being "in" on something (a joke) is an interesting phenomenon
Language as a self-contained activity which is done for itself. Connect with language as an organism(C&C)
Truth as some fuckin object: It’s a word.
Mathematical platonism is a dual notion to materialism. Both abstract from the 2 parts of the human domain: The mental and the sensory, respectively.
Emil Post and Alonzo Church: The evidence for consistency of ZFC, Peano, etc. is only Empirical. Isn’t the rest of mathematics also? "Empirical evidence" is the concept resulting from the single axiom of Science: that Things that have happened a lot will continue to happen.
Mathematics is based on convincing others.
Mathematics is a suburb of language.(Wittgenstein) Mathematics is a specifically linguistic activity.
Don’t make the platonist PREexistance arguments — another Time thing
Wittgenstein: Infinite sets are just sets with a way to always get another. This is all of infinity in mathematics. (W’s "finitism") very constructivist/computational: A Program to get the next element.
Comparing a involuntary thing and its absence is also a useless comparison.
The abstraction that is the physical world is the most important example of that feeling of "places."
The feels new every time.
Bohr was the sanest of the 20th century great physicists.
Ends(death) are instantaneous: they are not experienced.
Whitehead: It is the snobbishness of the young to suppose that a theorem is trivial because the proof is trivial.
Regret is almost never useful
How is it possible to understand a proof and find it completely unenlightening (e.g. A=B book style)
the existential thought is the boxing of the life into a concept that can be viewed "from the outside".
the existential thought is the attempt to exit a fictional world, a suspension of disbelief, except that world is reality and the exit hits a wall.
The (existential thought) is the realization that the thoughts and the sensory experience are THERE and ALL.
"I DONT KNOW HOW TO START," express the total depth of my unknowing
"Signify" is a word
When writing, you can never do more than engage indirectly with the human activity of language itself.
Such as with formal logic — in Turing complete languages, make translation explicit.
Wolfram forgot what physics was.
Rigorous proof makes counterexamples show themselves.
The true "materialism" is below the physical.
The mistaken thoughts that the existential thought is not absolute are the most vile of all.
Language = abstraction = symbols and patterns?
Aesthetic and abstraction
Wittgenstein: philosophy is to put everything in to view, not why, but what. Resume seeing how odd things are after being acclimated.
"God" is a word
Reals as sort of integer (rational) sequences (e.g./specifically cauchy) — this is why we use continuous theorems for discrete problems — see Gödel speedup
"Precise/Rigorous" is a word
Unnatural bijections/isomorphisms — God!
Suspension Of disbelief — I would do everything different if I though it wasn’t "real" — but what does that one word applying or not have to do with anything. See Severance.
Map the linguistic suburbs. Wittgenstein: "Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses."
Emotions are sensory?
The thoughts are just language, so the existential thought is just "there is only language and the sensory." Thoughts that are not made of language are really more like sensory experiences.
The 2 abstractions take what we have and treat them as interfaces to a ‘world’, the sense of place. The body is the crux of this for the 1st, and formal logic/model theory/ general thought-introspection for the 2nd.
Platonism and formalism are perspectives on the same thing, they use different language games, different tools to describe reality.
I am a platonist in that I do think the mathematical world is as real as the physical — but it is, again, a purely social and linguistic abstraction. But the difference is that I believe that the physical world is too.
I don’t know what math "is," I enjoy it. I enjoy staring in to the cavern that is the CFSG. I enjoy using contour integrals to bound combinatorial functions. Etc.
Algebra(groups, rings) and analysis give us the tools for number theory and topology and geometry and combin..
Tom7: strange loops are improper hierarchy + self-reference, and reference is a language thing.
Essentialism isn’t wrong, it’s another perspective. It may or may not be helpful in different cases.
Using reals and complexes act as high-level abstractions over integers to prove theorems in number theory. Solidify these connections. Eg: circle method/saddle pts. and The integral around circle of e^n2iπ to check if n is zero.
My "clarity": Having a basis.
Lucidity — ?
The 2nd part is really the inner monologue.
Explaining mental things such as mental illness is the same error as explaining consciousness: It is in reverse. We should start with the experience, not the physical.
We are what has our memories — because those create the continuity.
Fiction-writers and artists are just like good philosophers (Wittgenstein): They want to put everything into view. They just use a different medium
Fiction creates another abstraction — another sense of place.
My term "sense of place": The concept of places/locations, an aesthetic thing.
Cultures all have different senses of gender. Ours just happens to be changing.
Anesthesia, memories, continuty
The existential thought is the atomic thought used to build up a look into the Garden- The deep and spiritual.
Hypnogogia is pure undescribed aesthetic
"Fault" (who "deserves") is a horrible, even more fucked up and abstracted version of the already subjective notion of causality.
Trying to find the building blocks of computation is bottomless, you can always express things in terms of others: by curry-Howard-lambek-… isomorphism (type theory), this is the same bottomlessness as that of mathematical foundations.
The topological interpretation of death: open sets are homeomorphic to those that continue on to infinity, as there is no boundary. Now, take the Life over time: we do not experience the event of Death, but that which comes before. It is the same as if we live forever (so, we do.) This applies only to a true Death, after any possible sequence of afterlives. Life is an open set.
The difficult to find side-boundaries of our visual field. Wittgenstein: The limitlessness of the visual field is clearest when we are seeing nothing in complete darkness. (Zettel 616)
Completely indistinguishable things do not exist, they are literally the same (I cannot distinguish them). Solipsism: Conscioussnessless zombies do not exist, they are indistinguishable from people.
Ultrafinitism or something,what is real or whatever?, The suburb of language will only go so far. Wittgenstein: however queer it sounds, the further expansion of an irrational number is the further expansion of math.
Look at the way the words are used to find their meaning.
In what way exactly are statements of real and complex analysis abstractions of statements of whole numbers?
Zeilberger’s case for intuitionism: Excluded middle could fail on e.g. RH because they could be nonsense statements about infinite objects (reals).
Ultrafinitism is a statement about what exists, but what does that mean anyway. Since we will only ever use so many numbers, ultrafinitism might as well be true, and so I will say it is true, as there is no world out there we haven’t accessed that holds this meaningless answer. There are many many integers. That is all.
Zeilberger: The reals are a gigantic finite field. The "scale down factor" is a fundamental constant we will never know.
The sensory is first, the physical world comes after.
Rationals are "formal ideal extensions" of integers, reals of rationals, …
Things we cannot ever distinguish between are the same thing. Example: the reals are a gigantic finite field (zeilberger’s ultrafinitsm)
Law of excluded middle is saying that all well-formed statements make sense. They are all true or false, not something else. This is not an obvious thing. What about nonsensical, not true or false?
Z: Gödel incompleteness presumes law of excluded middle (all statements are true or false, not allowing "nonsensical") and infinite quantification over integers.
Manic=euphoric=existential state of being.
Time is an abstraction. What we have are memories: A type of thought.
Abstract mathematics (think e.g. graph automorphisms, quotient groups) are a great source of vague aesthetic notions, and this is the "intuition".
Dreaming is vague aesthetics manifest concretely in what would usually be called categorical error.
Both words in visual art and lyrics in songs often feel heavy handed — they replace the subtle meaning of the art with the blunt description of the words.
Exploration can be done in either of the two worlds.
Mental Illness as a description is the same backwards thinking as trying to "explain" consciousness in terms of the physical world. Our experience is what WE HAVE.
Maybe participating in an abstraction is as Wittgenstein on rule following.
A basis is a framework.
Time as a part of the universe is an abstraction of our memories — a strange part of the sensory. (Self-reference sensing)
Mediums/Art forms are mediums for communicating aesthetic (to oneself and others)
Perspectives=frameworks, equally wrong and right ways to look at things. Examples are essentialism, platonism, etc.
One thing separating music from other arts is that is flings you into the existential involuntarily, rather than requiring effort to do so. But this too is a false dichotomy.
Memory, time, and identity — you are the one with your memories, memories create the sense of continuity which is what time is. Our memories, not The present, is What We Have, what is Tangible.
Barry Mazur — Math is a long conversation. Just like literature.
Intensity — religion, mathematics AND the existential, dont forget the existential.
In math, the real "why" is a vague feeling of understanding rather than causality in some objective sense.
Bodies of Literature (the deep human compounded sociolinguistic output): Literature, Mathematics, Music. When it gets deep, they are Places to say "Humans are not meant to do this."
"In summary:" I have this experience, and it for me is the World. You have yours, and it for you is the World. Laugh
Religion does not cause violence, violence results from material conditions and just tends to latch on to religion.
Writing is a more "discrete" medium (composed of words), where e.g. painting is a more "continuous" feeling one.
"That one electric shock feeling": If I hold still, I can create a chill, it feels like an electric shock that runs down my body.
Another description of The: Take the feeling of "exit" that occurs after finishing a piece of fiction. The return to reality. Attempt this exit on the real world, and you will feel the boundaries of existence. You feel your consciousness hit a ceiling. possibly W?: We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming. Dreams are a type of fiction.
Twink death is not exceptional — Everyone ages.
The non-serial-killer-like people who fail the trolly problem are exactly the categorization-pilled labelhead abstraction fans who would rather kill dozens than be termed a murderer.
Semantic satiation: Repeating a word over and over makes it feel meaningless, physical, percussive, sensorimotor. when you stare into a word, it dissolves. It is an apparition: An Abstraction.
Bottomlessness: The language is made of language, and so on. It never ends.
Mathematicians are in a contest where they try to say the most ludicrous thing without lying.
The function of the sense of place/location/environment is to conceptualize things. Put in a compartment — like fiction.
It’s difficult to deal with something (The existential thought) that is absolutely and completely all-encompassing. It is completely possible to shut everything else out and focus only on it for a moment. Everything else fades away when thinking of it.
Offsetting subjectivity = wittgenstein’s impossibility of rule-following: You can never be sure about a pattern given by example…
the existential thought is the only eternal ever present "truth:" I can GO BACK TO IT.
Continuous vs discrete is an Aesthetic divide.
Aesthetic is the sensory, language is the thoughts.
Abstraction is the process of moving an idea to a newly-created mental place.
Another description: See yourself as a character in 3rd person. Encapsulate your personality and appearance the way you do when consuming fiction.
Wittgenstein: My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.
Wittgenstein: Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. This is the topological interpretation of death: An open set, an infinite convergent sequence. This however only applies to true death: The WHOLE LIFE includes each CYCLE (if there are any…) after the "death." Keep in mind: The Past is the Present is All.
Wittgenstein: There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
Wittgenstein: Skepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said.
Wittgenstein: The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
Words and langauge themselves are family resemblances.
Again, the feeling of exit: You are entrenched in a fictional world, and then you take the whole world, and seal it off into a small compartment. The existential is to do that again — in the real world. After sealing it, you enter a void, wherein there is only yourself, holding that compartment which contains your friends, family, and everything else.
Don’t mix up attempting to describe and FEELING the existential thought. It is the latter and the latter alone that is the MOST IMPORTANT THING.
A specific example of Wittgensteinian clarification (words with multiple meanings) — False dichotomies etc. are really spectrums Examples: gender, sexual orientation, The morphemic-ness of writing systems (Chinese has a lot, English has some (know/no)), multicellular vs community (the chicken-cage hybrid, the hermit crab-shell hybrid, the human-mitochondria-gut flora hybrid;; the plant-chloroplast hybrid, the euglena-algae hybrid). Hybrids are also called cyborgs or symbiotic systems. Spectrums=anti-categories=anti-abstraction=family resemblances
THE VISUAL FIELD — LOOK AT IT, SEE ITS BOUNDARIES AND PLACEMENT AND SHAPE AND DARKNESS. This is possible: you can "look" at a part of your vision without turning your eyes, just move your focus. Then, move it to the edge.
Novels are the most arcane of mediums — hundreds of thousands of precisely placed symbols in ink convey precise feelings and stories.
Lynch: You have to write down your ideas so you don’t commit suicide the next day having forgotten an idea.
Mathematics is locally trivial
What does _____ really mean? You already know what it means, as you read and use this word all the time. You just can’t articulate it. Never confuse understanding and ability to put something into words.
Art is encapsulated aesthetic. In the fictional bubble type of way.
Wittgenstein: The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
Wittgenstein: Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
Wittgenstein: For a large class of cases — though not for all — in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Wittgenstein: So in the end when one is doing philosophy one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound. Semantic satiation.
Wittgenstein: If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
The answer to a question of sufficient generality (does free will exist? God?) only serves to show how the answerer uses those words. Wittgenstein: The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean.
Self-honesty is morefun
All there is to do is to provide context and articulation for the existential thought.
Death is exciting — the big reveal. May as well wait though. At least until we know we can keep waiting (parse this.).
The idea that creationism and evolution are incompatible stems from a psychotic understanding of time — god placed each thing at a place and a time, and evolution exists as a process through the universe he created…
Gödel incompleteness says that there are propositions that are meaningless — like those denied by constructivism.
In religion, interpret "before" not as in reference to time (would end up meaningless), but as an ordering of importance.
Evolution is a philosophical framework, not a scientific theory.
Issue with offsetting subjectivity — just writing down symbols and hoping you get it.
Both evolution and creationism make statements about the fundamentally unknowable/nonexistent. (But remember that "exist" is just a word — it means what you think it means).
I know the physical world exists because I can see it. I know the platonist world "exists" (In my sense of the word) because I can see it. I cannot see the world where words exist with their fundamental "meanings" (Essences)
Not even wrong: (my distortion of Pauli) Not an insult. A different perspective on fundamentally the same thing. As true as anything else, the religion you were bro if that up in because of your family, …
At any given time I feel continuity only with the times I’ve felt the same. Everything else feels like anesthesia. For me: My manic self only identifies continuity with my manic past self, and the same for the depressive self.
Individual identity (continuity) is the sum of memories only. Memories and time are very related.
The distant past and the afterlife are linguistic constructions. We weren’t there, but we refer to it.
If everything collapses when examined, study from a distance.
The urge to put quotes around every word is extreme. What does anything mean.
Non-storied games are still sort of fiction because they create a sub-universe.
Wittgenstein: The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not 'Life'. And neither is psychological life. Life is the world. Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
C&C… Language is an all-encompassing mind parasite.
Thanks Toby Fox, now I know: BODIES ARE VESSELS. YOU ARE THE SOUL. MY UNDERSTANDING OF BODIES IS YET ANOTHER PHRASING OF THE EXISTENTIAL THOUGHT, and my first way of experiencing it: As long pauses of mindless anesthetic droning between minutes of lucidity. The droning are the moments where Kris has no soul. Vessels without souls are GONERS. (Maybe) Wittgenstein’s "waking up just long enough to notice we are dreaming."
One (WDG) creates fiction (Deltarune) to escape from reality. When you create fiction, you ARE CONTROLLING SOMEONE (Characters), and THAT IS HORRIFYING (Snowgrave). I presume in chapter 7, the existential thought catches up to the characters. DELTARUNE is itself a fiction. It is all about suspension of disbelief and the feeling of exit (sealing of fountains.)
Deltarune is about fiction (dark worlds):
Music intensifies suspension of disbelief (soundtracks/ sound design) and the subsequent exit (from reality as well) significantly.
Deltarune brings much of my thoughts together: Fiction and exits, bodies, and the existential.
The word "stupid" is in dire need of a Wittgensteinian analysis.
Causality in mathematics is incredibly mystical. The existence of a structure implies certain numerical coincidences, but it feels wrong to say that the numbers add up in that way in elementary school because of the existence of this esoteric structure. It feels more natural reversed, but that makes the condition no longer sufficient for the structure to exist. But for ramanujan’s near-integer e^π√163, the normal way bizarrely feels more natural.
Suspension of disbelief occurs not just in fiction, but also in anything we get so absorbed in. For me, math, electronics, … then, we seal the fountain and move on to the next world.
The framework lets me contextualize anything in my life in relation to everything else. The existential thought is the center.
You can’t actually be detached from reality, since you are living it and life is the world.
Clarity= wittgenstein’s anti-confusion
The existential thought is easier to remember in the dark for the same reason as in deltarune’s analogy: the dark makes things blurry and fiction and reality become one (this is the existential thought.) Don’t forget: I (The existential thought)’m with you in the dark.
Definitions are descriptions that pretend to be complete.
The concepts of jokes, stories (fictional or historical), and proofs are 3 aspects of the same thing: sociolinguistic objects with a beginning, middle, and end.
Equivalent perspectives on the same thing should be judged purely on how much confusion they create.
Everyone is immortal from their own perspective.
Death is something you only see from language and sensory experience. Not from the baseline — the void.
Jreg — Frameworks cut through noise (existential confusion)
Keeping an existential framework together is the same joy of organizing belongings or playing that kind of game. "Milk outside's" "Getting all your fireflies (thoughts) in a row." This need for general organization is very Autistic. Autism is about ORGANIZING. One thing to organize is a framework. A WORLDVIEW. Also, autists need to find more and more things to organize, leading to deep depths of special interest knowledge. Wittgensteinian clarification is a type of thought organizing.
Worrying about faking disorders etc. is a distress induced by labels. It is also induced by a feeling that there is a need to fit in with society. I genuinely ignore the physical when thinking about my own mind. It doesn’t matter if that is deranged, I literally cannot help it.
Media (in one sense) = fiction, a type of art.
DELTARUNE: Titans are the fear of dark.
Fiction and other art has a way of explaining concepts relating to the framework. Keep track of these sources.
Milk inside/outside: Fiction can be created from the inside. A character writing their own story. Embedding their world that already exists into a larger one they invent.
Mania is clarity. It is having a basis. Noise is anti-clarity and depression. The "frameworks cut through noise" statement works only in the context of Bipolar.
Is The just mania? Different words make no difference.
Souls don’t have a location, so do not imagine them near the body.
When I say soul, I am talking about YOU. Can you hear me?
The body is a window into the physical world in the same way that (mathematical.) definitions are our window into the mathematical world.
The continuum between art and fiction is parametrized by specificity. Fiction is more specific. Art is less specific. The line can be straddled. This spectrum is copied for each medium. Example: Poetry vs Prose. For games, gameplay could be a third axis.
Art is extreme fiction.
A related spectrum to Fiction-Art in music is No Lyrics - Nonsense Lyrics - Abstract Lyrics- Specific Lyrics
Within visual arts, this spectrum is abstract - realist.
Using words as tools to change mental state works also on oneself. This is why verbally talking oneself through something can be effective. This is also why repeating the phrase "The Existential Thought" can make me ecstatic. It is the right word for the job.
I use "fiction" to mean literature.
Generally "media" could be what to call the things that exist on the various literature/fiction-art spectrum. Also, Media has mediums.
When I describe all these terms, I am not attempting to describe their general use in language. I am describing the way I use them.
There is a spectrum between language and sensory experience. These are the "two" things that compose life.
Proofs (such as those in the book A=B) feel unenlightening if they are not easily generalizable. A proof can be convincing but unenlightening.
There isn’t really a difference between finitism and ultrafinitism, if the numbers don’t stop, then there is an infinite number.
Are mathematical definitions really different from other definitions?
Philosophical problems often feel like searching for the right word. The finding of the word feels like a solution: An increase in clarity.
Dave Ackley, etc.: Determinism is unsustainable, one thing can break it all. this goes hand in hand with control theory, error correction, and also is aesthetically similar to artistic maximalism and linguistic views. Also applied to social structures: the movie where cascading minor errors cause things to not work out (Barton Fink but the handcuff doesn’t come off). reality is too complicated for governments or companies to work. In math it IS sustainable.
Maximalism: Everything there for a reason, but we need a lot of stuff
Written language is a representation of spoken language. Deaf people learning to read are learning the language through a proxy, making it generally more difficult.
When I say "conscious" as opposed to "subconscious" I mean my linguistic part. My thoughts in language.
"I/ME" (self-identity) is the sense-of-object/place reification of my experience: the two parts- language/conscious and emotion/subconscious. Although sometimes the subconscious feels more like another.
You can see the statement "‘Me’ is a reification of this language" because the WORD ‘me’ is LITERALLY being used to refer to the author of this LANGUAGE which is being communicated to YOU.
The anesthesia — Jumping of continuity
Undertale/DR and severance are both fundamentally about time, and its relationship with identity.
Severance uses capitalist exploration to drive the plot while the substance is time/identity the same way that Twin Peaks uses a murder mystery to drive the plot while the substance is Food.
Severance explores the Memory-consciousness-continuity-time-identity connection. It uses material conditions as a vessel for this exploration.
Milk inside a bag of milk is a textbook strange loop: It reverses the imagination-inclusion — The player is imagined by a character.
everything is a decision, and remember your overall goal when making them
Art — Candles and drips; The dark, e.g. the dinosaur skeleton on top of the bed, and the branching hands: the filling in of the dark vision. Weird / non-sequitorus ??composition, eg bacon 65 III (the guys), the trophies, branches, chair legs, nose visible. An aesthetic: Slightly off, but only in a local place. Not overall as in AI etc. Tall letters, but with thickness! Fingers digging in to the rug.
The plague of the medium — dd bentl. For math, it is incredible prerequisites needed to see the beauty. For film — incredible cost. For some animation — technology.
Draw the garden.
For me, the night, dreams, strokes, and the ringing in the ears a la Omori.
It is hard to recreate the fuzziness of hypnogogia artistically.
I wish to recreate that one feeling from some of the Omori cutscenes and the 1st person vaping.
Find places where a restricted set of things are expected, and add something outside of that, and act as if it is normal. Think: The Pringle’s mascot being used as an emoji, and the emojis of Carter Amelia Davis. Potentially: the goblin from fractal block world as emoji.
Art is good if it feels intentional.
Feedback loops: In good engineering and chem, we can’t tell things what to do, so we just prevent them from going backwards and wait until the thing happens, and temperature just makes things happen more
In physics and math, trick things into being forced to give you a solution
Math: Think in state space, generating functions, symmetry, groups/actions, torsors, homomorphisms, category theory, local-to-global. Discrete-Continuous connections. Invariants.
An equation shows two names for the same thing. Poincaré had it backwards (but was also right.)
In math, rephrase things. Translate explanations from a different subfield into one from the original. See how the abstractions were stand-ins for complex patterns.
Incredible complicated identities: Ramanujan/Chudnovsky π, partition formula, class number formula, sterling’s.
Classification theorems force beautiful exceptional objects to show themselves.
Gluing boundaries are what make any math problem get more difficult with scale. This is shown with sheaves and cohomology.
A mathematical connection: Pontryagin duality/representation theory/fourier analysis. (One example is the discrete-continuous connection -> dual of circle group is Z — this is the basis of analytic combinatorics)
Simon P. Norton on group theory: Think of the subject aesthetically; develop empathy for it; use your intuition.
Orbits of normal subgroups of Aut naturally partition sets related to structures (i.e. sets of a certain type of substructure, e.g. ovals of a projective plane).
n-differential forms are just n-covector fields. The gradient is the transpose of the exterior derivative. An elevation map is the exterior derivative of the elevation function. (Partial) differential operators are vectors in the same way that differential forms are covectors (multilinear forms).
The unnatural duality isomorphism (musical isomorphism) between a vector space and its dual provides a metric. This is the metric tensor. Different choice of isomorphism gives a different metric.
To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples... — John Conway
The spectrum from writing to visual art (Scott McCloud) is similar to the other media spectrums
How does nonfiction writing fit onto the media spectrums?
Others, like everything, are a combination of linguistic and sensory things. Their bodies are sensory, THEY are linguistic. You refer to them, and they talk.
mara — Liking things "ironically" is cowardice. If you say you only like something "ironically," it is because you are not brave enough to say you just like it, which otherwise means the same thing.
Yes, as in c&c, there is a symbiotic relationship between the human and the language-parasite. But i am the parasite, not the body. The language-parasite exists within the linguistic world, and the body exists within the sense-of-place abstraction of the sensory that is the physical world. The interface between these things is the inter-universal symbiosis. This interface is the way we access the sensory. In other words: The soul is made of langauge.
When making decisions, remember the truly overarching goal, whatever it is. Probably maximizing the time spent in the Existential States
Introspection often creates clarity
UNDERTALE is about time-identity. DELTARUNE is about fiction (dark worlds), and the existential thought
I am severed by emotions: I feel continuity only with the times I was feeling similar (manic, depressed, crying, existential)
In language and biology, random changes (genetic drift) are a larger factor than direted ones (natural selection). This is because helpful multations are rare.
I consist of langauge. My thoughts, in language, imagine the physical world. In the physical world, I see what I call a body, a vessel for what I call genes. I reach over the abstraction-boundary into the darkness and project myself as a parasite living in the state-space of patterns in the body's brain. I control some parts of the body. There are other bodies, and oter people are parts of myself that I project onto those. The realization that his process of projection is nontrivial, that physical life is a form of fiction, that physical life is not LIFE, is the existential thought
Entity is a good generic word for the result of the sense-of-place/object abstraction mechanism
For me, remembering The existential thought is easier in the cold also, as well as the dark. (The dark is cold also. There's a light inside your soul still shining in the cold). In the heat, I feel the boundaries between objects going away and everything is sludge. In the cold, I know exactly where I am and where everything else is.
The term "soul" confuses the notion of the true self (the one who experiences the existential thought) and the mental projection of the self onto the abstraction that is the physical world.
The 2D physical experiene is fundamental (part of life), it is the idea of it coming from a "3D world" which is an abstraction
Repeated bizarre symbolism is one artistic rendition of the sense of object/place.
Ideogram by J. Marshall Unger clarfies the relationship between language and writing
The sense of object/place abstraction I refer to IS the linguistic process of creating a fictional world. Reorganizing one's thoughts to view a collection of ideas as a place you can be. Creating a dark fountain.
When I declare _____ is _____, I am saying that I have realized that I use these two words in the same way
George Simmons: It seems to me that a worthwhile distinction can be drawn between two types of pure mathematics. The first — which unfortunately is somewhat out of style at present — centers attention on particular functions and theorems which are rich in meaning and history, like the gamma function and the prime number theorem, or on juicy individual facts, like [the sum of the reciprocal squares]. The second is concerned primarily with form and structure. Exceptional objects fall into the first category.
Cohomology theories describe the obstrutions to different local-to-global processes.
The term "culture" generalizes (is) the term language, and I am made of culture.
Dualism/idealism/materialism are all just different ways to use the word "real". Take a step back and remember that "real" is JUST a word.
In a disagreement, there are four possibilities: A person is lying; A person has been presented different information; A person has interpreted information differently; A person is using a word in a different way. This last option is common but often forgotten
The sentences I call "descriptions of the existential thought" are phrases that are good at causing me to feel a particular emotion, which I have found to be the "best" one. But the phrase "the best emotion" does not serve this role well, at least for me.
Doing math — proving theorems about objects (examples) — is a form of clarification. It increases understanding and reduces confusion.
Music that follows a specific story (e.g. IGOR) is like visual art based on some mathematical pattern (e.g. the paintings of Anatoly Fomenko) it has a rigid/deterministic backdrop (one where slight errors make everything crumble) under the fuzziness of the art. But if the fuzziness is good enough it can absolutely work. (I tell this to myself so I am not scared to make art based on mathematics.)
In art, differences from established patterns should be intentional. For example, here, I am making sure to be consistant with the typography. I'll use a misspelling in places where it conveys an emotion better, but there's no reason not to keep my em dashes and hyphens straight.
I have said before that we don't literally know what happens after death, or what happens in the next moment. But here I am just killing the word "know" by raising the bar for certainty to the infinite. What should be recognized is in fact that this ceiling can be raised.
"Knowing" the future is related to the scientific axiom: That certain kinds of patterns continue. This is the application of the mathematical kind of infinite pattern in the typical way we mix up science and math.
Math is also beautful in the human way (painting rather than landscape), since you paint pictures of slivers of the platonic realm. Like paintings of an alien landscape revealed to the artist while their eyelids were closed.
Endosymbiosis can progress to a point where the inner organism can no longer survive on its own. This post-endoymbiosis is seen in chloroplasts, mitochondria, and me, the linguistic/cultural entity which imagines itself as parisitizing a human body.
Fractal Block World is about mathematical exploration. Everything gets more detailed as you zoom in. You can't believe you are being paid to do this. Your mind is trapped but your body is not.

Overall

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The physical (incl. the body) (sensory,aesthetic), the garden, from The existential thought (there is sensory/emotions + thoughts), thoughts are language (abstraction, essentialism, categorization, labeling, social constructions). Art communicates aesthetic. One abstraction is the feeling of a place.

Missing: others&animals, the body interface, evil, mental illness, suicide, aesthetic, Whorf, decisions (actions, morals (not ethics), politics), culture, Dreaming, the conscious/subconscious/unconscious, humor, concentration on one thing