The Study of Big Assumptions

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"Nature is philosophy"

"Art is dimension"

"Night is stealth"

I take these to be beautiful assessments of the middle ground between minimalism and hyperbolism. I posted these on Twitter @nathancoppedge as aphoristic quotations, using the tag #bigassumptions (the archetype).

Each of these makes a large claim, which may be ultimately questionable. But do these set a standard for what is right and wrong? At some point, via qualities, an assessment of hyperbole may be adequate for a certain amount of descriptiveness. Even when big assumptions are expressed, with the right stipulations, at the point that the claim may be argued to be too generic, it also expresses the nature of other, undeclared cases of 'big assumptions'; It is just at this point when the very nature of big assumptions is at its peak of accuracy.

The Faults of Sleeplessness

Here is depicted four relatively exclusive categories which explain the sources of sleeplessness; According to my theory, the root cause of sleeplessness when nothing else is responsible is fault to the regulatory system, especially the medula, which may occur in many types of ways; When there is some potential for fault with the medula, other problems may emerge, including intellectual inattentiveness or thoughtlessness, over-stimulation from chemicals or simply excited experiences, and manic obsession with thoughts.

Problems with a Number of Things

Art:
1. Cigarettes
2. The lottery
3. Pointillism
4. Philosophy

Immortality:
1. Candy
2. Tooth decay
3. Epiphenomenalism
4.Subjective advantages / Objective failures

Science:
1. Bad branding
2. Education bottleneck
3. Lack of privilege, physical constraints
4. Excess of privilege, lack of argument

Real Life Encounter with the Philosopher Colin McGinn

Most of my real-world experience with philosophers occurred during a short childhood camping trip my mother arranged; She had noticed that I was interested in philosophy, and offered to meet one of America's famous philosophers to see what he had to say (at the time, I had assumed that most philosophers were European); The name I chose off a list was Colin McGinn;

I said 'What my mother told me to say was that I'm interested in philosophy and I like to think'

He asked me 'What is your favorite problem?'

I replied 'I don't know, I guess I'm confused'

He replied, 'I like paradoxes, the more you use them, the more you think you can think; As it turns out, thinking that you think is very important in philosophy'

'What else is important?'

'You know what else is important? Abstract answers; Most philosophers think abstract answers are the key secret; I think it's less important, but that is just me; Every philosopher has her or his own preferences; It might turn out that you are an abstract kind of philosopher; It's up to you'

At that point my mother peeked in, and he said, 'I advocate what I call equal identical properties of matter; Everyone has a home, and everyone goes home; So no one's left alone; Know what I mean?'

'I don't know what you mean' I said; 'I was talking to your mother' he said;

'I don't know, do you want to continue?' She said; 'I'm sure he's interested';

He asked me 'What's your choice of religion?'

I replied, 'I'm Unitarian Universalist';

'Well, that gives you a head start' he said

He asked me, 'Who is your favorite philosopher?'

I replied 'I guess Plato'

He replied 'The thing you should know about Plato, is it's always about something else'

I replied 'I'm not sure what you mean'

He said 'I mean, with Plato, like Socrates before him, it's always about some new category, like Ethics or even philosophy itself; You might not know this, but Plato invented ethics; At least as we know it today; There's a good case that he invented religion, at least as we know it today; He invented God'

'I guess that's all I need to know, thank you'

'Wait, there's one another thing you should know' he said; 'I'm a millionaire'

'You mean spiritually?'

'No, I really am one'

'So can I have some?' 'Get lost, kid'

Later I had a voice in my head; It was my mother's voice; It said: You know, that really wasn't Colin McGinn, it was somebody else; I thought you would know; That's what philosophy is all about;

I thought, I guess having this thought is what philosophy's all about;

I felt connected to women, nature, and the universe at the same time;

Later my mother told him 'You seemed to influence him a lot; I can see him thinking'

I asked my mother: 'Was that really Colin McGinn?'

She replied, 'Yes, it was'

'Wow'


OTHER STORIES:

The Story of How I Was Offered a Time-Cube

My 5 Seconds with Warren G. Buffett

My Willful Abduction by Seth Rogen

Abducted by John M and His Father

The Casino

Precepts of Dimensional Psychology

1. "Dimensionism is the principle of the psyche whereby it might be quantified, even when it is qualified"

2. "What denies the psychic in psychology is precisely what denies that it is a discipline"

3. "The attempts at psychoanalysis are attempts at realizing the relationship between meaning and education"

4. "The argument for psychology is the argument for propter hoc reality"

5. "While philosophy provides a context for any caveat, psychology by working with people caveats no caveat"

All quotes by Nathan Coppedge as shown on Twitter.com/nathancoppedge #precepts #dimensionalpsychology #quotes #quotations

Knowing How to Sleep

1. Go to bed at a good time

2. Learn to soothe the brain, such as by drinking tea and avoiding coffee

3. Avoid the hardest thoughts

4. Remain thoughtful throughout the time leading up to sleep

5. Immerse yourself in a dream-state without losing these previous goals

Maxims and Mantras

"Sometimes discretion is not discrete" --Maxims

"Always positivism unless there is a requisite for specialism" --Maxims


"For every reality there is a form of structural reality" --High Mantras

"It works to favor neutrals" ---High Mantras



See also other quotations on my twitter profile: http://www.twitter.com/nathancoppedge

Randomness As Non-Probability: Four Categories

I finally pinned down the four categories which I associate with true-random: that is, randomness which does not exist as a mere formality, but can encompass any type of random phenomena; Here it is, on the diagram at left; [1] Dithered, [2] Selective, [3] Significance, [4] Self-Adapted; Then, if there is a key to non-random randomness, this might be it, on the categorical-micro or in other words systemic-metaphorical level.

Ongoing Studies of Follology, the study of folly

Here is a diagram illustrating the development from classical to modern, and post-modern or futuristic ideas of stupidity. At left of the column is the argument "for" stupidity, on the right hand of the column is the argument "against" stupidity.

Among the historical examples of follologists was the late great Erasmus, who wrote In Praise of Folly, a very long-winded argument in which fools are defended tongue-in-cheek.

I hope this is a more efficient treatment of a similar subject (although I don't mention Plato).

Irrationalism: Things That Seem Rational To Me

---Sometimes using an aesthetic stipulation---
P1: birds are mechanical
P2: what birds eat is mechanical,
P3: because it makes them mechanical
Q: So chicken feed is mechanical
Deductive Corollary: It's a brilliant thought that electricity is mechanical

Other Ideas / Opinions:

*Politics is pandaemonium, so it's artificial or functional

*Without psychology, all is surface or ersatz; yet psychology is not functional

*Liars are more or less functional than other people; Liars are gamblers or think that lying is meaningless; Liars understand or do not understand; Liars are simpletons; Liars could be given some theory that looks complex to them and is not in fact complex; Liars are exaggerators; Liars always have a strategy; Liars failed childhood

*Thought is impersonally selfish; By understanding, one gains advantage; Help is only helpful when there is selfishness; The greatest attempts at understanding are acts of selfishness, and they are not great acts of wisdom; Wisdom has a system; It is a selfish selflessness; It is the assumption of theatre, and the assumption of activity; People don't understand activity; People imitate ideas; People are only functional by having license; There is some authority that thinks that lust is more important than the resolution of any human impasse; What we get is sometimes what we desire of what we desire; Some of what we get is what we do not desire, either what we understand or what we desire to understand; The activity of desire is selfless, whereas the fixitude of understanding is foolish

Mapping the Folly of Prediction: One Indicator

The above diagram shows the degrees of similarity which indicate that basic agreement with existential factors, whether they are statistics, impressions, or working tools, is a slippery slope into empirically determined actions, which are still labeled "intentions";

I detect a trend in philosophy that what is meant by intentional reality is decisions or conditions informed by outside influences, as expressed in the diagram; The very sophistication of these intentions is gauged in reference not to some interior "logic" or "mindset" but in relation to intentional reality, in other words, the rationability of the exterior influence upon the person; This is one thing that may be meant by behaviorism and functionalism, but it is also a statement about prospective predictions, the intellectual sense of what it means to have predictable reality; The influence at that stage is upon concepts such as "worlds", "disciplines", and "influences", depreciating what it means to have general unclosed statements in a body of discursive intellectual material::

Mental Phenomena

---An appraisal of context---

Spiritual stimulus: A dubious subject

Ghost organ: Decides souls

Vortistic ice cream scoop: Used for psychic brain surgery

Book of vile concordances: Bargains for which I was an un-influencing locus

Good thing I wasn't born on Halloween!

Lesson About Living Writing

The preference for choices of words; Confusion, persuasion, and brilliance don't have regrets;

Imagery such as:

Existential Eyeball
The State of Lick
Deeper Architect

Annotated, visualized, aesthetik, temperamental,
thought-work.

IF YOUR GIRLFRIENDS ARE PAINT CAN1 (PPAIN) (11)

SOMETHING LIKE YELLOW PAINT MONSTROSEA (SSEA11)

HEJJ

KELKELKELKELPE (KELLA) (CIRCUS) (HEJAHEHH) (HEJAHEH)

https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2025/12/park-bus.html

DIOY

WORTH AN APARTMENT SWITCH WORTH DYING OF FRIGT

skee TAAT (JESUI) --> SKE

https://hypercubics.blogspot.com/2026/03/curatorial-museum-2026-03-23.html

HOLY GOD IS SHE WORTH MORE MONEY

AN I(N)

THEY'RE CHOPPING LETTERS RIGHT UP THERE WITH (iI)ON

Inspirations for Writing Non-Fiction

Marbles
Inkblots
Microfeche
Fire that bursts glass
Aged wood
Scientific observatory
A caterpillar

Interface Euphoria 2.0

---Words are everything sometimes---

Here are labels designed to give a natural mild euphoria, out of an aesthetic choice. The meaning is open-ended but associative, and often there are colors or other sense-data which can be expanded by some form of virtual reality stimulation or hyperrealism:

*Playdolphin (Mood)

*SecretCloud (Mystery)

*FoldedLadder (Logic of Ambition)

*Architexture (Logic of Surfaces)

*Minarets (Holy Day Music)

These provide an opportunity to integrate forms of experience with forms of interface and computing.