2026-01-02 at

anonymised chats in public

Many people are terrified, when their thoughts are scrutinised by others. It is an understandable trigger, but I do not encourage it. Often I publicly post conversations with anonymised conversants, whereas my role in the conversation is more obvious. The anonymised may fear that this exposes themselves to vulnerabilities. But without the reification of a subject, the predicate of conversation is merely a concept, worthy of global review.

I generally comply with requests for secrecy, but in the absence of such requests, my own life is mostly laid bare. I do not know any better way to present information for discussion, than by this method. I certainly don't trust the anonymised parties' views, more than I trust the myriad of public feedback and opinion. 

It is notable however, that parties which tend to be terrified by such dynamics, also tend to be the ones who feel insecure about their place in society : uncertain about their relationships with others, uncertain about job security, uncertain about being perceived as mentally ill.

profitable promise management

 The trick to an easy life with no responsibilities is ...

  • 1. underpromise
  • 2. overdeliver

The trick to enriching yourself at the expense of others is ...

  • 1. overpromise
  • 2. underdeliver

The trick to knowing which is which is ...

  • 1. assume no promises are implicit
  • 2. don't mistake a non-promise for a promise

Follow me for more trite comments, as I try to stay awake at my desk.

2026-01-01 at

integration : triple network model, my college work

People are simple machines, somewhat

It will probably be several years before I can map the language I used for my college work, to the language of the triple network model in contemporary neuroscience. After all, they are both infirm theories. Roughly from my initial reading of the latter :

SMN ... SENSORY-motor ( sensorimotor / somatomotor ) network, covers both exteroception and interoception. ( Which together form a subset of proprioception ... as proprioception broadly involves imagined sensory data as well, not just live sourced sensory data ). Of course this divides into input/output i.e. sense/motor subnets. Various sense modalities have their own subnets.

CEN ... central executive network, mostly concerned with PHYSICS : modelling, simulation, and execution. Bridges the SMN, to other key networks. Since DEDUCTIVE reasoning is a variety of physics ( not a commonly understood or acceptable hypothesis ), perhaps this is also the brain's deductive processor, equivalent to ATPs in maths software. 

DMN ... default mode network, generally said to be involved in free association, pattern matching, and INDUCTIVE hypothesis generation ( first stage of inductive reasoning, where the second stage is deductive coherence checking ).

SN ... salience network, tends to handle PRIORITISATION ( probably value judgements in general, as it links up with emotions, and socioeconomic valuation ).

DAN ... dorsal attention network, seems to be closely related with the shortest-term memory buffer, getting bridged alternately to the CEN or DMN. Maybe the seat of CONSCIOUS memory - need to read up on how this works with blind people, as initial pointers talk about visual data ( we do know blind people can use visual imagination internally, to a degree ).