Recurring forms of organization have names. Weather patterns have names, chess moves have names, musical genres have names.

Conversations have recurring forms of organization. It’s time they had names, too.

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Why does movement slow down when we have many important things to do? They all matter, they’re all important, any yet, the system slows, and sometimes, even stops.

Part 6 of the Movement series looks at this question.

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The Mind, Unbuilt Series broke down the definitions of consciousness and left us us with these terms. Receiver. First eye. Second eye. Gate. Write channel. Interpreter. What hasn’t been shown yet is the architecture those terms point at — the structure they all live inside. The Mind, Mapped reveals that structure.

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We Name the Players. We Rarely Name the Game.

Nine Modes Introduction Pt 2

By the Mercer Journal

When conversations break down, the obvious move is to look at those involved. But if we want to understand conversation better, perhaps we should be looking somewhere else.

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The Weight of Unfinished Things (Movement Series Pt5)

The Mechanics of Cognition

By the Mercer Journal

Why do small things left undone feel heavier than larger more complex projects? Why does the mind continually return to loose ends?

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The Gate

Part Five of The Mind, Unbuilt

By the Mercer Journal

There is a moment where the conscious thinking and the unconscious truth meet, and diverge. This is when the first eye and the second eye meet, and the time when the gate is open. To explore the mind, listen to episode five.

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Conversations have structure. They have forms. They are organized in different ways. This is the introduction to the Nine Modes, the shapes of conversations.

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Why We Wait for Motivation

Part 4 of the Movement Series, From Mechanics of Cognition

Some tasks never begin. There are many reasons why. This episode focuses on the reason of ‘waiting for motivation,’ and why this doesn’t help.

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The Second Eye

Part Four of The Mind, Unbuilt

What is “the second eye”? It is the thing that writes conscious experience into “the receiver,” the black box of consciousness. It has the capacity to observe itself observing experience.

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What Survived the Sorting

Part Three of The Mind, Unbuilt

The Sorting is complete. Only Qualia and Attention remain. Are these two things, or one thing from two different angles, and what this means for consciousness.

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