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That thread is a mesh.It doesn't show up well on twitter, but my idea network has directional links between ideas.I leverage our collective meaning making and attention networks to act as a temporal stigmergic web of ideas, using search to index into.https://t.co/F9KHfLQ0IS
You travel along the network in one direction -> your curiosity guiding branching paths/backtracking (I think of you as a prolog program searching for 'TRUE').I am a spider, catching ideas on the web, adjusting scent on the line to direct you down paths. https://t.co/vTZA6YLCxT
All linearizations of ideas would be but one path thru the maze.Like a choose your own adventure, each person's experience is unique.Even just watching me form thoughts (weave ideas?) in real time gives a different experience from those who come later.https://t.co/w5pHye6mMO
There is no chance really of a long form of this, no.I could perhaps build a map, but the story itself is unfolding as I write it.https://t.co/uCH3eVreXe
I've been weaving ideas since before twitter supported quote tweets.Some of my earlier threads have upwards of 4 or more tweet links in them.Some tweets serve many purposes, acting as spokes to transition between threads.Some are just words used to add to narrative.
The context for this one 'below'? To show how this thread is me unbundling complex ideas. Decompressing it. Explaining myself. I think I've used it like 5 different times.Some of my ideas are orphans until the right context shows up for them to flower.https://t.co/e72s1tX2Lj
Forming, unforming, reforming. the coding, decoding, and recoding of the assemblage. Continuously reforming gradients in the environment.Socialnet as filter. Shape as feedback loops. Directionality like neurons. A layered mealy machine powered by attention/recombinatory noise.
This entire thread you are reading now is compressed in that one tweet. I haven't had capability to express it that is easier to understand.It wasn't until twitter broke (this strange game I was playing with everyone) that I started to unravel the rules.https://t.co/BiVKis7spE
Now all my tweets are left to roam like orphans outside of their narrative mooring. "[person you follow liked this tweet]", "[person you follow commented on this tweet]", "maybe you like this person since your other folowers follow them".Unmoored.https://t.co/y3HJXOJdZ3
I have something in my brain that I am trying to express. A powerful intuition. But like complex bundle of origami, it's true beauty has let to be expressed. The picture in my head is literally about something unfolding itself. Decompressing. https://t.co/kuORFCAqBG
There's something fundamental my mind has picked up on, but I don't have the language to express it. Like a rose unfurling in slow motion. https://t.co/CTYXjtynvJ
Or a dragon's wings being pumped up - slowly developing into a complex structures. An idea taking on the necessary scaffolding to take flight. https://t.co/eixtxvasNB
Crystallizing an idea? Giving it form and structure. https://t.co/7fXCE78Kha
That idea, but as a Trolley problem.https://t.co/nYV8qKV7Zr
It seems I am able to do what I do because of a freakish natural preference toward something called "Methods of Loci" / "Mind Palace" techniques.https://t.co/JAYc9HLxUC https://t.co/j2mNzV90cj
Ideas and words that are used often become memetic signposts.https://t.co/VRzwRPx7uA
@ryan_nayr_ @callumflack @visakanv @nikillinit I've been using term "signpost" vs "axioms" - Often the phrase that ends up being most meaningful isn't something apparent until I tread down a search multiple times (following it like a path). It seems to self optimize like how ants compress their paths. https://t.co/XcwvBYHhUj
Sometimes the signpost are entire people. Ideas flood back to me - anchored to strong memories of them. Hmm, so @outdreamer is related to the idea I'm looking for adjacent to "signposts" and then @monk51295 pops into my head in my head. https://t.co/XmbycVxIhx
That makes me think of "hidden genius"https://t.co/m7IyzRWLx0
And that? Playing with other people's ideas. Stealing their toys.https://t.co/FkenVpzJQS
Ahah, thats it. I stole Idio Jargon from @monk51295.I'm thinking of this tweet:https://t.co/Ma9xrpuTRU
And that tweet reminds me of being "ontologically soft"https://t.co/MWUXOMc9I4
I'm ontologically soft - my brain doesn't modeling culturally/social defined axis of meaning. Even when I have a strong ontology internally, my brain doesn't seem to care about arbitrary divides and I need to build rule-sets about expectations explicitly.https://t.co/psfCHye0qH
Which I gotta jump to a different vernal pool to trace down.Content is surprisingly meta.https://t.co/AFTL1V8L7M https://t.co/QafZ69pWl0
Ah, a different thread there mentioned soft ontologies, which also contained the idea I was looking for all along."Free associating mind vomit."And so, my answer to this question, with a built in example ala the last few tweets in this thread.https://t.co/GSP0s7riFJ https://t.co/TsI6MJp9oN
The hard one to do is when the signpost is entirely visual. I remembered describing this system a bit more to a chair. Hmm. Maybe it was the "the chair who follows me"? Had to scrub thru my follows list to find them.https://t.co/QuUuhnksPu
@merriman_bt Chain it. Association cascades. One idea triggers the next. Spaced repetition uses that part of the brain wrong if you want to leverage maps of meaning. Fundamentally is a lossy hack that doesn't allow for information to compress by overlapping ideas.https://t.co/844r8HhNJF
That was a pain in the butt, so I'm making a mental note that it was an "old chair" who follows me. Which I associated with Museums (old things to look at -> ala playing with "visual" signpost concept). In my head they are now "a muse".And now search works to find them quicker. https://t.co/lmSwhqA0mB
When did we stop calling them "mind maps" and start calling them "mind palaces"?https://t.co/GkdkhcUdeZ
Mind vomit is just so much easier to remember over "memory palace" https://t.co/2oZdCoSBJT
Narrative Compression.https://t.co/ixUhZflPzx
Lazy loading idea linking networks.https://t.co/gykq3E8Xku
Wandering over the web of ideas as attention shifts in my brain. Patterns change and different shapes restructure themselves like the interaction between DNA & RNA. The lost spider wandering his own web of ideas until he finds one that feels right.https://t.co/Yuuoo6hNJi
In my web of ideas I successfully linked this video on dna with my mom via a song.https://t.co/1fULqdLAONhttps://t.co/i9ZhrviENQ
Spent 2 hours today explaining basic DNA stuff to my mom.Now she understands how changing your diet doesn't change your genes, and how curing stuff doesn't make the genes go away.She immediately had much more intelligent questions about CRISPR. Oh no.https://t.co/nWTadgOLF7
Sharing my state with my future self.https://t.co/nH0iX33cfU
Humans as collaborative note taking vessels."Notes on paper, or a computer screen [...] do not make [...] intellectual endeavors easier, they make it possible"Neuroethics and the Extended Mind, Neil Levy 2011https://t.co/DLK4oyXH14https://t.co/GxNmkhYe6P
@wminshew @sonyaellenmann @unravelofstack Talking with others: translating unknown experience.Talking with myself: remembering forgotten experiences. In talking with others, I often feel like I am remembering things that only the collective knows. Channeling history from a distributed hivemind.https://t.co/pvPlY0HGQo
This thread, but spoken thru another person's lens.https://t.co/3XxK2IVcrS
… more you offload memories onto a narrative & into another mind, the more your memory becomes, in a very real sense, artificial. Technically, someone who spends all day in front of another human has no memories of their own except for going to the bathrohttps://t.co/RAyozdGT58
"GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS SYNCSexperimentations with synchronizing massive amounts of conscious focus in order to effect some physical reality the group is aware of."https://t.co/lrgoRvCMsv
Twitter's search is broken. So my system is broken.https://t.co/utPYss2KEn
Had to use google [https://t.co/ZunTsEO0M1]to find my #\root thread.https://t.co/SPaGN5728w
@automaticyes @jongold My intention w/ https://t.co/sxj3oeyD2N is to replace what I do on witter in platform that is content focused over people focused. My threads here wove in other's tweets, and then the tweets vanished as accounts were removed. I described my usage here: https://t.co/iNFo2CNgHL
I was looking for this thread because I wanted to remember the name of the person I know who works on https://t.co/A2VXv9J7bohttps://t.co/hF99GwrjWl
Someone mentioned Astra Taylor and Fauxtomation over on Mastodon. I ended up on https://t.co/K4S75TRpRq and realized that @monk51295 had already done the research I wanted to do on her.
In the process of finding this thread, I also made the connection that I am structuring my https://t.co/OVz1sEU6MW channels based on the same rough idea as to how redefineschool is organized around 'idio jargon'.https://t.co/m4qQHJkL3H
@automaticyes @jongold I use 'signpost' method I discuss in that thread, but adapted to https://t.co/pvfP6oVwFv's format. I can search for my channel on micribiome stuff by searching for "microbiome butts". (https://t.co/LmQuaCqbqI) It works real well with the quick entry bookmarklet and onsite search.
I think I see how that is being structured in the context of blogs. Where I have a channel on https://t.co/OVz1sEU6MW, or a search terms & quotetweets on twitter, @monk51295 is using pages + links to create jumping-off points. Different expressions of the same underlying pattern.
A completely different lens on the same pattern is the concept of wikilogging https://t.co/sMxpDsVwgc which @BillSeitz introduced me to. Interestingly, both Bill and Monika are familiar with the way that @jerrymichalski uses "TheBrain"
There's something interesting here in noticing these meta-patterns. I can now loosely translate my personal meaning making 'web' of ideas into the structures I find on redefineschool or webseitz, and leverage their structures to operate on my own.
These persisted architectures of thought means I can leverage learning not just vicariously thru others, but thru time. It's 2019 & I just heard about fauxtomation, but thru internet time-travel, I can consume thread started in 2011 and learn about her ideas on unschooling.
"Writing isn’t a zero sum activity. I can convey expertise in X and you can convey expertise in Y. Writing is rarely substitutable and there isn’t a single, formal hierarchy for ideas."https://t.co/18Q2EchT6i
Even this whole #\root'ing convention is itself just a translation layer I adopted to help others follow along with my thinking.https://t.co/VkebstkA3k
@vgr @visakanv also @mwiik and @chumulu, and more recently @MimeticValue, @GRITCULT, and @NPSix21 are doing it.@desantis had a #root'ing, that seems to have spread the format a bit under 'Xanadu' ideas.I've called it Meditative Tweetstorms / Weaving / LongStormshttps://t.co/udq8oXPAdW
Blogs, wikis, concept maps, collaborative collections of ideas?ant poop networks of thought.https://t.co/hVCvIAwFqa
Blogs: Artifact of sharing reality models. output of a system of attention, biases by interest; novelty seeking behavior.Poops: Artifact of sharing reality models, output of a system of taste, biases by gut bacteria; nutrition seeking behavior.Foraging for meaning.
Humans as collaborative note taking vessels.https://t.co/ObsTtqVw8g
Collaborating with one's exoself.https://t.co/56RDnsDBZl
when you have a large volume of notes, it becomes very necessary to start signposting them, summarizing them, highlighting bits that represent the whole. this is a very humbling experience – when your own bandwidth of consumption is too limited to process your own work
Help, my external memories are locked behind an unfriendly platform's control and I can't find the energy to fix it for myself. :(https://t.co/os8JELsLEJ
The spider has been flung off his web and now must navigate them like the ants he had been luring.https://t.co/voZRLVl8KC
Retweeting arrays of knowledge among a topic, as bait.Chumming the water to measure the movements of the swarm.Meta-chemotaxis like behavior among the insatiable appetites of the informavore.The bolas spider of the sea: https://t.co/XsMZIRbBks
261 tweets on the current trajectory toward replacing people with virtual reality agents. This may be my longest thread exploring a singular topic (that isn't just random poetry).Start: https://t.co/dyLdMSvyA2End: https://t.co/OA0UVDt8AzDoes this make me a futurist?
If I end up losing my current SO, I'm going to start metagaming Tinder. I seek those with non-standard utility functions for mates. I would target those who haven't acclimated to gamified system. More variance; but signal is usually stronger among noise. https://t.co/rmUMRAhiQM
"These ideas fall beautifully out of the structure - We all stumble across them like flowers on the road.Each new person providing more thought energy, bringing the form closer to manifestation and galvanizing it’s spread."https://t.co/wMHgfR0LuI
Sometimes I say this to myself like a mantra.https://t.co/dJYoLibZyB
For want of gossamer strings of electric spider webs, ballooning into the air to explore."We could have our contentwebs floating in the air as we talk, grabbing pieces as we go, expanding, portal jumping, exploring our mutual thought palaces together" @JMartinMcFly
"A talented Liminist must be a master translator, able to communicate and comprehend across domains. They must be a master weaver, able to take individual strands across many domains and pattern them together."https://t.co/lvtkhgt4qU
Data-mining between the gaps of ideas.https://t.co/3AE6CJMxiQ
Data-Mining the Gossip of ideas. Collecting the little whispers of thought before they amalgamate themselves into a cohesive idea. Recognizing little nagging threads of wisdom that have yet to find the words of their own. Pulling on them until frayed...https://t.co/pAIlSOkv8L
Hands held together in a network. Weaved thoughts holding on to each other.Ideas connected thru emotional bonds, forged in the fire hells of curiosity.https://t.co/NDP4DCMRNi
The one (web)ring to rule them all.https://t.co/VH6kDLGTHJ
And the darkness consumes them.https://t.co/guIhQ1s9NZ
It me."He wanted the memex to behave like the "intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain"; essentially, causing the proposed device to be similar to the functions of a human brain." [1945]https://t.co/xhemVyRpOh
You have to think larger than Twitter."The brain-to-brain propagation of Dawkins’ memes can now happen worldwide within seconds. We have a new real-time, global culture that is not only technological but also social." https://t.co/vGnuhZzOKC
Pathfinding Algorithms; mapping the territory.https://t.co/WdpLxaWIUR
Meaning making with friends.https://t.co/GQP2ixPKqu
Meaning making with friends.https://t.co/lDGFu4or36
Someone made @StigmergyOfAnt and I think they understand.https://t.co/nMBLjzRVE5
@StigmergyOfAnt Tired: @Kurz_Gesagt – In a Nutshell?Wired: kuzgeztANTs – In a Nutshell!image via:https://t.co/BohbS9Fhkb https://t.co/uOllsQ8lbH
@StigmergyOfAnt @Kurz_Gesagt I think about this kind of thing often.I wonder if Kurzgesagt has made the immune system connection as well.https://t.co/ues9ijlCxUDo you think our immune cells fight each other as a natural regulatory system as a way to prevent auto-immune diseases?https://t.co/nmRCeXpD7i
@StigmergyOfAnt @Kurz_Gesagt Ant foraging behavior applied to information gathering.What is an informavore? https://t.co/2VlLes96aCNom nom nom.https://t.co/PAFv97R0jR
How do you weave your web?Do you reinforce it with delicious carbon fiber nanotubes?https://t.co/ZOhTNE9SKmhttps://t.co/W5NdUuDoPn
Tare'ing ideas apartWotting 'em togetherTearing ideas apartWaiting 'em togetherTeiring ideas apartWeighing 'em togetherTearing ideas apartWright'ing 'em togetherRavelling; Unraveling.Reveled; Reviled.Revealing; Spinning Interpretive YarnsWeavedhttps://t.co/g9j1f1sOAb
"Talked about this idea of multiplicity of meaning.Lukasa is a mnemonic device, it's a memory device.You can see it's an object and it's attached with all this stuffAll those attachments & ideagrams can be read.They hold knowledge."Old Braille Memeshttps://t.co/cYBQhoDW7p
Steaming a thread to keep it pliable for working.Drying yarn to tighten the stitching.Rigid yet flexible. Cutting the noise with a hot thread, like butter. (a pun https://t.co/9CehY7xi6X about lumpy nuggets in the mixture, a metaphor about flaky ideas.)https://t.co/yFWwbQ7xlm
Mixed metaphor, on making edibles out of twitter webs. An informavore's delight; Did you know that spider webs are technically edible? Forbidden cotton candy."I Ate Nothing But Spider Webs for a Week and Now I Wish I Never Accepted This Internship"https://t.co/2tc6DchZJe
I recycle my ideas like a spider eats their web.I can not find evidence (other than hearsay) that they actually consume their web. Only that they reuse the silk.They do seem to eat pollen and fungal spores tho.https://t.co/abpiSM3oFg
It stands to reason spiders will vomit digestive juices on their own web just like they do insects and plants.https://t.co/zI8ucmbeFnIf spiders are vampires, then so are moths; moths also vomit acids & enzymes on prey to consume.https://t.co/iBtWneWa0g
Exhume history. Consume history. Recapitulate. Let them eat cake.Navigating maps of meaning, cybernetics to change the heading.Exploring the future with an eye on the past. Adjust. Adjust.Expanding meta narrative templates forever in a loop.METAtics.https://t.co/5NDXTEa8i7
Recapitulating ideas like a cow chews it's cud. Repeating. Taste'ing again. Recycling.Even this idea is repeated in the bible:כְּ֭כֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל־קֵאֹ֑ו כְּ֝סִ֗יל שֹׁונֶ֥ה בְאִוַּלְתֹּֽו Kəḵeleḇ šāḇ ‘al-qê’ōw; kəsîl, šōwneh ḇə’iwwaltōw.
Ideas swarming to look for acceptable hosts.Fish slow down and speed up to form solids and liquids, density creating a lensing effect that causes the entire swarm to piviot and stay in the dark.https://t.co/FKe64dEzf7https://t.co/5VE9PfpvwI
I am learning to navigate @jerrymichalski's brain.It is... Intimidating.Youtube algo's seem to think this is related:https://t.co/2NVKJnDzIN
Perhaps? Perhaps.https://t.co/Ovbty5cW5N
Keep moving, never stop.https://t.co/dx9FlyQS2P
@chernobylski @fire__exit The entire reason I started building these memory palace based threads is because my working memory dipped to about 4 items during the depths of my depression. When my left side goes numb, I can't think.https://t.co/3WaSbuztAn https://t.co/3k3fcVwY00
Create value in your wake, even if you can't see it in the moment.https://t.co/HzVMQtRyav
Half the battle to achieving this is rejecting the shame society programs into you for not completing tasks on an expected schedule. The other half is figuring out a way to capture the activity you do naturally in a way that guides you toward creating useful artifacts.
One grain of sand at a time, and an ant can move the mountains.https://t.co/mM8IR4mGj1
Another cool thing about threads that are built slowly @ organically over time is that both the tweets an the thread itself becomes more valuable over time, & become more deserving of re-examination with each new addition. The value of the chain increases the value of each tweet
Tools for thinking, hard won.https://t.co/NUnKmkMjUL
@sonyasupposedly @visakanv I'm happy I saw your comment; felt seen in a weird way.It *IS* exhausting. Much of my own memex style not b/c I like it, but because of the struggles from memory loss and mis-remembering. My interest in the meta is I want to figure out how to avoid exhaustion from it. E.g: https://t.co/B9XZrXFaGI
Someone asked about my process, so I directed them to this thread here.I have said in the past "free associating mind vomit"You can see this in my tweets. This is what my brain does, as a form of adlib'ing associations with words.https://t.co/DZijFtPKtT https://t.co/sKEyp2555s
Excavating Language Tunnels, one tweet at a time.Be like the ant.https://t.co/M9012XrZmw
E.g. term 'signpost' itself helps me find my thread on how I use twitter. A lazy form of decentralized indexing that captures emergent associations + generates serendipity via search.A passive folk ontology building a stigmergic linguistic zettelkasten. https://t.co/KiNuT1etyQ
@AbstractFairy @gwern @geoffreylitt @thlpr A tip that helps me specifically with twitter (and I've used Google's search to index into my twitter for a while), is to embed linguistic shorthand. Memorable terms & 'signposts' that helps me navigate after the fact. I am curious how gwern navigates his.https://t.co/EVGKX8ZiQC
I am just pretending I'm a very dumb ant who gets excited when he tastes a delicious bit of insight.https://t.co/6ZhoQ9Sl7Z
Like this idea.I named the image "attentional_cordecept.pdn" because I am implicitly expression the feeling that our advertisement algorithms are acting as parasites to an otherwise deeply powerful tool to eat one's shadow.https://t.co/xKl2CXXmMT
On internet, advertising harvest you!https://t.co/l91Ebp6NCs
I am not actually sure, but the image I traced looked like a harvester ant. In my own headspace I also recorded that it was farming an aphid. I left those aspects out of the associations embedded in the meme.https://t.co/CVgaCRbCNb
Recognized this myself; applying the association system I use for building my twitter memex, allows me to encode ideas into memes, and communicate via a messy multi-pronged bandit.https://t.co/UxnyGsLRV4
One of the things that Is also missing is that I was recording how often I used a particular signpost via my browser's history.It doesn't work anymore, but a search for "from:ultimape high-brow wow" would have found this tweet:https://t.co/a2J9weh8RI
I have that concept encoded in this tweet:I find it when I think about "I'm even this acronym is"which triggers me to remember a thought I had about how even searches can be searched & used as idea signposts. https://t.co/5tCFH5yH5A
Which is itself a mash of ideas stemming from concepts of hofstadter and wordplay.Meta-*meme*tical themas.JOOSTing https://t.co/k1wVyIad0FEtc.
Hofstadter's concept of ~"analorgy as the core of cognition"We ought to expect all experience to be channeled thru a fruedian lens of bootstrapped abstractions on our early childhood experiences of pooping.Memes: Don't distract yourself with the words.https://t.co/xAjzUnGHVL
I even encode ideas around my accidental misspellings.https://t.co/YYXCbVywfP
The problem I have with freud (or more specifically, with the inertia around the traditions that stemmed from psycho-anal), is that they often neglect teh concept of scaffolding.Once you've built the arch and put a keystone in, you don't need the dirt.https://t.co/XXLJrYDhrs
I wonder often why Freud was so obsessed with poop tunnels.So I make jokes about linguistic spandrels and ideas forming like crystalizing lattices of experience.https://t.co/6ihU5sh2q3
Tired: Series of tubesWired: Complex manifolds spandrel'd out into arrays of interconnected electro-fluidic networks, driven by doped up silicon valves that are emulating vacuum tubes.Inspired: How about a nice game of thermonuclear war, nimrod?https://t.co/Av2gE36W50 https://t.co/NuNWKZmERe
[[Digital Garden]]https://t.co/05mejlglOohttps://t.co/S2bq052O73
"And it went like"🎶https://t.co/tK0c5gVlmyhttps://t.co/kSsLQtvm6F
This is my gripe. What we want to fix with ouronote is a step further out -> so many of these tools want to not just put a brain in the jar, they want to own the jar and charge rent for using it.This is unacceptable to me. https://t.co/dTw5leagw7
Babble, like a baby learning to speak.https://t.co/LIbSPLAU7Y
Channeling another's thoughts just a well as I can channel the muses. Listening to the wind and the rain and the stars. Collaborative divination. Idea induction. Tools for thought.Babble.https://t.co/te7T3iWTVg https://t.co/KukX8xaLU5
