Neo Ideograms

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Reaching out to the woo-woo community!

The videos mentioned are https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=19&v=kF49mUmaVh0

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I have done something to “surpass man”.

typical trivial ids that display some of the flavor of what I do

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At minute 3 he draws ideograms for “convergence” (which he equates to “trustworthiness”) and “plausible”.  I didn’t have an ideogram for “plausible” but this will, with a little tweaking, do nicely– thank you Mr. Vernaeke. Perhaps I can use it for an improved ideogram for “science”.  I note that what he draws would not work as “converge” (nor its mirror image, “diverge”) without the assumption of movement from left to right, which I generally do with my ideograms.

Cognitive science  converges toward ideograms, to my mind. In his book The Mind in the Body, Mark Johnson mentions the importance of image schemas, which I take to be natural ideograms. I think image schemas are indeed key in the working of the subconscious mind and a means of understanding, and that by consciously working with ideograms we strengthen our connections with our subconscious minds.

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I just transcribed a page from Somatics by Thomas Hannah. I was pleased with how quickly I could write it and how compact it is. I came up with a right-on id for “prow” immediately.

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As always, anyone actually interested in this can write to me for detailed explanation of this post.

I took notes on this video in ids, my preferred way of writing. A few spontaneous new id creations arose, as is usually the case.  I love how ideas that have proven intractable, difficult problems to represent satisfactorily in ids are solved spontaneously, I think because my subconscious has been working on them. The subconscious does the work anyway! I often think of Mark Johnson’s contention that “image schemas” underly conceptualization and categorization.  What is an “image schema” other than a natural (proto-) ideogram?  I believe that by consciously working with ideograms one is working with one’s subconscious, improving it.  And if, as the cognitive scientists like Johnson and Lakoff say, 95% of thought is un(sub-)conscious, then improving the subconscious with conscious ideograms opens a royal road to improved mental integration and mental self-mastery.

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Writing things out with regular script is to me tedious, boring, slow, dead, while writing with ids is fast, exciting, vibrant, creative, rich, alive.

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In grappling with a complex idea like this it seems worthwhile to have an image, at least as a starting point, not that it captures the whole thing.

I am still creating every day, just not sharing much.  I create ids constantly; they are a big permanent part of my mental makeup, a richly rewarding means of relating to words and ideas.  Here are some creations I made while lying in bed thinking a bit before rising and while going through the motions of making my coffee.

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Notes:

in the second sentence “up” is a person standing beside a bed–more expressive than ordinarily written English!

the graphic opposite of rut given transcends ordinary English. We don’t have a word for that.  Ids are NOT merely a way of stupidly transcribing English; they create new takes on ideas and go beyond, adding linguistic freedom.

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