* I'm not dead yet. I made it this far. The most inspirational person is the person who inspires me at any particular interaction. Does that make me phenomenalist? Hm. Well, maybe a subjectivist? I dunno how to classify. I never liked labels. My latest obsessive project though has been asking myself thusly: Imagine I'm dead. I wrote a lot of stuff. Someone finds my stuff and goes, "HOLY SHIT THIS IS AMAZING!" and collects it together. Puts it in a book. 10 books. 1000 books. Now a Librarian is faced with the task of sticking it on a shelf somewhere to get dusty like the rest of them. Where will I fit in? I found an automated dewey decimal classifier (a nice AI job they did) and ran my 9000 of my little writings through it. Now I know I went to a library today. Took my mom there after treating her to a mother's day lunch. I like libraries, even though reading books is boring. Takes too long. So instead, I go around looking at how human knowledge is classified and categorized. Today I noticed some big gaps between numbers - all that missing knowledge that "isn't" there, and thought of all the gaps in education, both school and what we learn afterwards, and how that affects the future of civilization. But I like looking for the gaps. That's where all the interesting stuff happens.Exactly. But since the best output of my soul tends to be my writings.. I can at least subject _those_ to a data analysis and get some idea of what I like to produce.. what do I like to talk about. What was interesting is almost none of the subjects were ones that I actually READ anything about. It's stuff I like to write about. So, that was a cool soul insight for me. I'm working on it: [1]http://icopiedyou.com - it's a boring site - not *really* for public but I also don't care. I've been collecting everything I ever wrote in the past 28 years online and the other day I subjected 9000 of them to a data analysis. Apparently, I write a lot (with great confidence in the AI): mostly about: 115: Time 120: Epistemology, causation & Humankind (How do we know what we know) 122: Causation 401 Philosophy & Theory (of concepts forming into words, philology, etc) So it was insightful to me. I'm not bragging or advertising.. just sharing. Something I feel like a braggart... I just... like showing off my macaroni and glue stuff [narcissistic? most likely, but mostly an absurdist]Oh I didn't "facebook"-ize it yet. It's only got 23,000 posts in it so far, far from ready for general distribution. I'm using it to LITERALLY be my "thought Collector" and _hopefully_ it'll self organize into a "something" someday. Well it's open, searchable. Help yourself to it. It's all the shit I wrote through the years, disorganized like a library that was hit by an bomb and all the pages are EVERYWHERE... and someone has to go through and put the books together again. Except... They were never in books to begin with and there's no library. So, it's a challenge for me. Hopefully I'll figure it out I just put it "out there" because I could be dead in the next 2 seconds and The dewey classifier. The AI was trained well. Take ANY SNIPPET of text you wrote and run it through it. It'll give you the library classifications it *thinks* you're talking about. And, it had a lot of surprises for me. It's an unsung hero of the 'net for personal discovery. Wasn't meant of it but that's how I'm using it.That's awesome! I do that on Vine; I go through and like someone's vines, make nice comments... help them get popular. Everybody needs their creativities validated somehow, whether for business or personal.. and I'm a huge believer in that mission. I wish facebook didn't use likes to sort out what my feed looks like; I used to do that on Facebook but they kinda ruined it for me by assuming that people only use likes in ONE way. Human knowability (and what is knowability) of Truth may be another matter, perhaps not. Yet, Understanding doesn't require Knowledge or Truth. But understanding concepts doesn't require language. Just understanding.Very true. We compress our understandings into analogies which we compare against existing knowledge, then notice the differences between two things that are decided as "similar but not same" and file it away. Over and over again. But