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TL;DR: Leveraging metonymic metaphor to make an efficient interface into exploring webs of content."The use of metonymy as a creative linguistic resource has received very little attention in the literature on everyday creativity."https://t.co/BMg5fxeKSzhttps://t.co/XHDmPQG2Rh
Skeuomorphism ala Symbolic Emoji "A metonymic emoji conveyed a meaning through a causal or conceptual relationship to the intended message. Here, metonymic emoji characters (usually material objects) were used to represent more abstract concepts or words"https://t.co/nod3cUpJLy
Using metaphors to communicate more deeply depends on shared experiences. So of course someone with a different perceptive bias (autistic attentional disposition) are going to have trouble with understanding nominative metaphors.https://t.co/v5z73e5Wcz
Autistic people interpret metonymic imagery in a different way and so struggle to perform at expected age level? It's almost like metaphor is context dependent form of embodied cognition leaking into communication norms.https://t.co/0nboZokpUz https://t.co/7DR1H1AML3
Have you tried using emoji as an invented language and in doing so end up creating a meta-folksonomy to better digest information?🐜https://t.co/MrNoyoewyy
Fighting the emoji apocalypse by creating an alternate narrative to redirect the timeline.💅Splitting meaning between categorization and narrative to reject the monetization of inventing new words.https://t.co/QZJslgXyhf
@JimmyRis I [make up words] all the time; why I think up as many as 5 [reframings of entire narrative templates] before breakfast.Some may call them hofstadterian word blends. But me? I just call them punny reframings of learning about dolphin's squak.https://t.co/5G7altyQL0
@JimmyRis bats : flying mammalsdolphins: swimming mammalsmanatees: fart-floating mammals that are covered in literal ear-hair. Living blimps. Sea Derigibles.Word vectoring.https://t.co/JMLsYh4DEo
"Non-verbal is a misleading word because it conjures up ideas that a person who cannot speak cannot understand words either. That is far from the truth. The truth for me is that I love words and express myself most fluently with words."https://t.co/pa87EjhBto
"if dogs can understand words we say to them, shouldn’t they be able to say words to us? Can dogs use AAC to communicate with humans?"https://t.co/75N7s0qyLMhttps://t.co/DGB3L9WQNl
"Thinking in Pictures is a psychologically-focused autobiography written and largely edited by Temple Grandin. First published in 1995, it documents much of her life with autism."https://t.co/g2ztsB9CIH"Wittgenstein's Theory of Language as Picture" https://t.co/ZhJuaBoCkD
" But for Wittgenstein, the words themselves don't so much convey meaning, but express intent that is confined within a particular situation that takes place within our shared culture and experience."https://t.co/wGLdzbUZPYhttps://t.co/4c7IrIM6Uu
Think in pictures of tweets in my mind palace. A mental snapshot of my past state, storied in an associative index.https://t.co/N1Aeuegh4D
"By answering the question posed in Molyneux’s problem, the invertebrates may have demonstrated an ability to internally represent objects"Say buzz buzz one more time, I dare you. 🔫https://t.co/HNXUXmYRjlhttps://t.co/q405A394LQ
~Cat language, mother fucker; Do you SPEAK IT?![...] Say meow again.Say meow again, I dare you.I double-dare you.https://t.co/8tSRO02tGz
Do you even speak 😹, bruh?Weird 💪, but ok.https://t.co/DDqHplPB1t https://t.co/c4FjS1EKnq
If your dog has ADHD, have you considered how that would impact how it senses the world?Dogs can actually have ADHD, and a bunch of other neurological differences. So I personally find this Anthropocentrism framing to be problematic.https://t.co/uMLNPjb1tV https://t.co/uYNkBQN8KE
tired: inventing wordswired: inventing grammarsinspired: generating associative meaning from symbolic encoding of stimulus.https://t.co/FQYLN2yeHO https://t.co/chM8R7eGQi
“the understanding that consists in seeing connections.”https://t.co/xTshYEGjv0 https://t.co/y1y2K4bfh2
Creativity is a pun on zipf's law that no one realizes we are making.https://t.co/lVPQW33ow3
Units of selectionthe evolution of ideas.https://t.co/jJCqV5pNmC
the evolution of ideas within mind's agar.https://t.co/TRn0TsbQhw
Creating new words is hard. Every word I speak is a new word. As each mind I use is a new mind.You are never stepping in the same river twice.Your mind flows like a river, constantly evolving.As a idea change your brain, your brain changes the idea.https://t.co/OE21ogDo2B
What did the dog say to the tree?Bark.What did the dog say about the top of the house?Roof.Why do we repeat jokes we hear other say?Growl-growl.https://t.co/tto75NQqW6
Growl-growl, because the joke is groan worthy.https://t.co/qAIO4BYjvfand also it's a reference to an obscure anime trope about a repeating verbal, de arimasu.https://t.co/RWiT6PjEVf
Watching a youtube exploration of verbal tics in a japenese anime... in Spanish... to explore a curiosity about language inspired by a no-true-scotsman modern day parable on machine translation and problematic behaviors stemming from obsessive autism.https://t.co/sHDem5jEMq
I understand + standing on the shoulder of giants= I support this idea.https://t.co/kVgxTYXfhQhttps://t.co/IR6qjVJmGG
Unintentionally designing a wearable that could be used by an autistic non-verbal person to communicate that they really have to poop, and in the process possibly confirm the urge to bathroom in bookstores. https://t.co/HPFTG6N4WO
You ever wonder about how surprised a dog is by their tail and wonder if their body acts independently. I wonder how often dogs are frightened by their own farts. https://t.co/8VReUUrBbJ https://t.co/auahg3AYnB
I am thinking a lot about putting emoji on fart tracking tools to help autistic people reign in their farts, and the nature of how communication itself helps to bias our attention and find words to describe phenomena. https://t.co/AtiT8r3Rxw
I need some suggestions on ambient music to play to remind me that I have to take a dump. If we can train a stomach to growl when I see food. Surely I can induce peristalsis by hearing certain audio cues.You can just invent your own brown note, you know.https://t.co/hwus6E0eMZ
This thread would make a lot more sense if you reallize that i'm using 'dog' as a metaphor for my stomach and am playing with the idea of teaching the 'dog' to talk.Galen's theory of toilet humors.https://t.co/sphekgKqj0
Be your own dog. They said.Train your stomach to speak. They said.Bananas are high in fiber. They said.https://t.co/m99wVlIrtW
Tired: hearables that monitor brainwaveshttps://t.co/SNmspu7v8oWired: a buttplug that monitor your gut neurons's electrical activity.Inspired: Engineering pavlov's bell, but for pooping.Insight train go choo choo cuz' I'm foaming at mouth.https://t.co/mUDH8YZbSP
I imagined a human who communicates with farts.Remembered the theory that language may have evolved from singing.Remembered the butt trumpet thing in medieval art. And am now wondering if that wasn't visual metaphor.https://t.co/Lb1ltYlE40https://t.co/mV1WjowbRG
Medieval fartistry was actually a thing. https://t.co/A7eln55rgZ
"[a] flatulist is mentioned in [a] 13th-century English [book]. It lists one Roland the Farter, [...] was obliged to perform "Unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum" (one jump, one whistle, and one fart) [at] the court of King Henry II every Christmas" https://t.co/KF5syXRQbF
You can actually make a musical sound with your anus. In this jackass skit, "will the farter" plays a party horn.https://t.co/o7iNoPAbdz
My superpower is taking all jokes seriously and then reveres engineering how something might be plausibly true, and having a nose for sniffing out the truth (about farts) that others don't believe is real.Have you tried to imagine impossible worlds and make your self laugh?
It's funny because it's true.https://t.co/pRZ52httQQ
You'll notice that this thread uses a metaphor about trains and streams of thought. I was making a self-depreciating joke about how often autistic people are obessed with trains. The slur for that is "foamers".I am foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog over these brain systems.
Ever wonder about something for so long you start to have your ideas bleed into each other in weird ways?Teaching the dog in my gut to speak, so that I can listen.https://t.co/FLlTNCJMXq
How you conceptualize something changes the ideas you can have about it. So it seems to me, we should call things platapus and aardvark for no reason.https://t.co/11Iiw0JUVk
A fart by any other name would smell as sweethttps://t.co/wl9gs8TjUH
What is autism by any other name,would it still not exhibit odd intestinal issues?https://t.co/V2SrnDQt0h
A duck is just a funny looking platypus.https://t.co/k2MCrMPQP2
I'm just a funny looking aardvark, because I've been known to eat ants.You think that's chocolate chips in his cookies?Spicy?https://t.co/2I9yhQhZr5 https://t.co/x2XqfibTY4
Creativity is a banana lasagna.Like an ogre, it has layers full of donkeys.https://t.co/vUk6bYbSEr
I used "donkey" to find the tweet above this one.A reference to a rap god.and a concept about creavity all rolled into one."Brain Scans of Rappers Shed Light on Creativity"https://t.co/M6Ckjx30aOhttps://t.co/N2sTXzeqvN
it all circles back around to metaphors about compression of metaphors. Perception biases reality? https://t.co/lnrKeQKIOJ
"how we describe discovery shapes people’s perceptions of both inventions and inventors."https://t.co/KaXJmwUMNBTired: Eureka!Wired: Wouldn't it be funny if?Inspired: The slow hunch.https://t.co/2ELQDVuvzx
Hired: Science is an orderly process that helps us rapping about reality.https://t.co/lnrKeQKIOJ
Ya'll 'stand me or what?https://t.co/MRjU6hWP59
"Discovery of an ancient dog species may teach us about human vocalization [...]The New Guinea singing dog that we know of today is a breed that was basically created by people"https://t.co/R8pGjM8fbWhttps://t.co/aHBVVpEbsB
2012: Saw the dog https://t.co/mtVvHonSCx2013: Find the dog https://t.co/X0VF16XV7n2020: Genotype the dog.https://t.co/r6qCeUnOlh
2025: Having taught the dog to burp on command, an entirely new communication paradigm was achieved with man's best friend.https://t.co/SdDJjKOUd0
"The 55-year-old was told he’d never speak again following life-saving surgery but defied his prognosis by learning to make sounds in a totally different way, a skill which is rarely mastered."https://t.co/eV0l5KOuRE*raspberry tart noises*https://t.co/dgIDR9mDcp
If an orangutan could speak, do you think he'd teach his friends?Orangutan can invent their own words and use tools. Have shared culture. The person here is hinting at trying to reintegrate this one into the wild to seed sign language.https://t.co/cnWAEcxqXY
Dogs can understand sign language better than words AFAICT.https://t.co/6UXp7XKsX8
Pets are cool. We should give pets pets.https://t.co/K3HNy0k2CW
I wanna invent a brown note that when played properly cures autism associated stomach issues.It might involve microwaves. But I am finding that ultrasonics can induce heat, so it might actually work if I can tune it right.https://t.co/bgimHFrMo4
Cat goes "meow"https://t.co/z1Q7sv6OIt
I learn about AI to understand the neuroscience of autism's languge problem."an autoencoder could compress a frequency spectrum with a total of 3500 values into a vector with a length of 500 values. [...] These are only examples"https://t.co/j2iEuqEVN5https://t.co/NEba1KrRZ2 https://t.co/VZ2VBqfzfk
Teaching a cat how to talk.https://t.co/eWF0SLwVdf
Dog-Gonnit! and Dang-Nabbit!are both polite ways to sayGod damn ithttps://t.co/bh45HnGvt5
Worth noting that guy isn't doing a good job at train his cat to speak, only to press buttons. The process with cats is harder and needs more time to set up the idea that words have meaning. His approach was just operant conditioning, which isn't what is going on.
This shows the real process in more detail, and starts with fewer buttons. https://t.co/c1OeHYZYhG
You think someone would do that? Just go online and collaboratively spread generate emoji folk-ontologies?https://t.co/VsBvvSy9Ac
Learning how cats talk with buttons, so as to better model an complex grammar.https://t.co/cMoJfTYLhl
I made a joke earlier about having a celebration; I needed to go to the pawty.So if you'll frogive me for being a pawty pooper, but It's time to head to the throne.👑😜https://t.co/HoF5roBcH9
Found the thread where I can induce chaos in my brain.Sadly its full of shit.https://t.co/J2wsq0A2LD