I live on an island in the Salish Sea close to the Canadian border. I love human beings but am horrified by the way we are treating our environment. Society is in crisis I hope we can give up on greed and avaricious and create a more sustainable and equitable culture..
A holophrase is a single-word phrase such as Okay that expresses a complete, meaningful thought.
Apophenia
Tendency to perceive connections between unrelated things
Apophenia
(/æpoʊˈfiːniə/) is the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things. The term (German: Apophänie) was coined by psychiatrist Klaus Conrad in his 1958 publication on the beginning stages of schizophrenia.
pro·pri·o·cep·tion
/ˈˌprōprēəˈsepSH(ə)n/
perception or awareness of the position and movement of the body.
"exercises to improve balance and proprioception"
sto·chas·tic
/stəˈkastik/
randomly determined; having a random probability distribution or pattern that may be analyzed statistically but may not be predicted precisely.
Literature was born not the day when a boy crying wolf, wolf came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels: literature was born on the day when a boy came crying wolf, wolf and there was no wolf behind him. That the poor little fellow because he lied too often was finally eaten up by a real beast is quite incidental. But here is what is important. Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.
—Vladimir Nabokov
Posthuman? This is a great explainer.
https://
coterminous. Use the word coterminous to describe things that are equal in scope. ... The adjective coterminous derives from the Latin word conterminus, meaning "bordering upon, having a common boundary." When something is coterminous, it has the same boundaries, or is of equal extent or length of time as something else.
bri·co·leur
/ˌbrēkōˈlər,ˌbrikə-/
noun
plural noun: bricoleurs
a person who engages in bricolage
paratactic
(ˌpærəˈtæktɪk )
ADJECTIVE
1. of, relating to, or involving parataxis: also ˌparaˈtactical
2. designating or using a style in which sentences or elements within sentences are set down successively with little or no indication of their relationship
soph·ist·ry
/ˈsäfəstrē/
noun
the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
"trying to argue that I had benefited in any way from the disaster was pure sophistry
pyr·rhic1
/ˈpirik/
Learn to pronounce
adjective
(of a victory) won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor
im·mis·er·a·tion
/i(m)ˌmizəˈrāSHən/
noun
economic impoverishment.
"rapid modernization had an impact on the level of urban immiseration"
Irreversible Noise | Unpredictability + Rationality https://