Aether Mug

The brain is a tool.
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Presenting Visual Koans
14 Nov 2024 | original ↗

An experiment in mind wandering

Ten Books that Transformed Me
7 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Some non-recommendations of Damned Good Books, with due apologies

New Plankton Valhalla Essay!
31 Oct 2024 | original ↗

A meta-cross-post

Normality and Surprise in an Image-Free Mind
24 Oct 2024 | original ↗

On discovering aphantasia and talking about it

Ballistic Moments of Weightlessness
17 Oct 2024 | original ↗

On purpose and its temporary suspension

Reading Blood Meridian with Aphantasia
11 Oct 2024 | original ↗

What it feels like

Philosophy Is the Battle Against the Bad Framing Kraken
2 Oct 2024 | original ↗

In the hallowed Aether Mug tradition of strained metaphors

A List of Introspective Descriptions
26 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Please contribute your own descriptions!

The Odysseus Black Box
20 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Curiosity as the drive to be changed by the world

Close Reading of a Modern Japanese Vignette
12 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Things you can see by looking over a local's shoulder.

You Don't Have Time to Read Books That Won't Change Your Life
5 Sept 2024 | original ↗

On some Damned Good Books

Boxed
29 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours

Blimp Blues
22 Aug 2024 | original ↗

I mean, don't you want it too?

A Black-Box View of Life
15 Aug 2024 | original ↗

We are meant to tinker.

In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things
8 Aug 2024 | original ↗

On Josuushi and questionable language approaches

New Aphantasia Article on Nautilus
1 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Rotating things without seeing the things.

Seamanship of Life
24 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Aye, pass that razor hither, me hearty!

Blowing Against the Fog of War
18 Jul 2024 | original ↗

A little about Plankton Valhalla and Aether Mug.

Jack of All Trades, Master of Something
4 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Generalism is a specialization.

Aphantasia Is No Creativity-Killer
27 Jun 2024 | original ↗

I turned my back to art, then turned again.

POSIWID
20 Jun 2024 | original ↗

A mosaic.

"Bad" Framings
13 Jun 2024 | original ↗

And how to spot them.

Borges on Chaos Theory
6 Jun 2024 | original ↗

About a weird, lovely short story.

Human Language Is Not a Network
29 May 2024 | original ↗

A visual explanation.

Is There Anything Untranslatable?
24 May 2024 | original ↗

Words do mean things, but not only.

Hills Not Walls
16 May 2024 | original ↗

The choice of our metaphors matters.

They Made Us
9 May 2024 | original ↗

Natural selection is the opposite of what it sounds.

A Medium-Agnostic Taxonomy of Notifications
4 May 2024 | original ↗

Or, I Went a Bit Too Far Fantasizing About the Ideal Notification UX

Language is a Bottleneck for Thought
25 Apr 2024 | original ↗

The definitive case in favor of headjacks?

The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language
20 Apr 2024 | original ↗

An extra dimension that you can play with.

You Impersonate What You Think You Are
11 Apr 2024 | original ↗

Can you do me a favor?

A Fundamental Framing of Human Language
4 Apr 2024 | original ↗

The very use of words implies a certain way to segment the world.

Don't Think and Write, They Say
28 Mar 2024 | original ↗

Online writing beyond bowel movements.

Aphantasia
15 Mar 2024 | original ↗

A subjective description of the experience.

A Framing Is a Choice of Boundaries
14 Mar 2024 | original ↗

One way or another, you've gotta chop it up.

Software Projects Will Be Late
29 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Blame the thickets and the paradoxes.

Internal Model Translation Table
21 Feb 2024 | original ↗

There's something for every occasion!

Conversational Humor Is Funny Only After You've Seen It Click
15 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Most funny interactions betray the usual categories and seem to be evolutionary or emergent.

Embedded Prophesy Devices
8 Feb 2024 | original ↗

Without a vast, detailed replica of the world encoded as models inside your body, you wouldn't survive one day.

Designing for Emergence
1 Feb 2024 | original ↗

"If we are ever to advance beyond simple computational artefacts, we need a science of emergence"

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