For @threadapalooza 2022, I'm gonna do 100 relevant words/terms and what they seem to mean to me right now.
Threadapalooza: 100 terms and what they currently mean to me
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1. relevant ←→ somehow connects with what's at hand, in a manner that follows the entropic gradient of one's meaning-making, ie in a way that matters (the relevance of relevance has increased for me since reading this paper 👇)
2. entropic gradient ←→ each cognitive system has a sense of where it's going, at any scale/complexity, whether: - a zygote sensing how to grow - a lizard sensing where to nap - a human learning how to love - a company doing biz strategy entropic gradient ~= that direction
3. sense ←→ subjective order "that makes sense" reflects a relation with [that] of being able to make [that] commensurable with the rest of experience. the "senses" or "sense fields" [including mind] are that which turns the ever-unfolding-everything into something sensible
4. commensurable ←→ literally "able to be measured together", I recently picked this word up from wikipedia, where it talks about paradigm shifts as involving incommensurability problems cf frame conflict, where bootstrapping dialogue gets tough
5. dialogue ←→ aiming to make new meaning together out of what each perspective is holding. requires me to simultaneously hold what I know and open to what the other knows. neither dominating nor submitting my frame will achieve this
6. perspective ←→ a subjective experience of reality, as distinct from others. the distinction can be from: - one's position in time and space - different sense organs (eg a dog & human always have different perspectives) - different context / life experience / meaning-making
7. distinct ←→ different in some way that is relevant/significant. I've found myself saying "these are distinctly different". Everything is different! But who cares? The difference is already there, and by default everything is con-fused, but we can *make* a distinction.
8. difference ←→ the duality that the one everything is entirely composed of. change is difference with an arrow. we perceive the world via differences in incoming photons & pressure, and electrical neural diffs. "information is a difference that makes a difference" — Bateson
9. everything ←→ what you get when you exclude nothing. there's sure a lot of it, and it's all intertwingled so it's important to consider! ...tho when *something* feels unhandled, it can seem like I have to handle the something before I can consider everything again.