Like the I Ching, and its eight Elements, as represented by its trigrams, Mneumonese 4's semantic structure also has eight core, relatively fundamental 'Elements'.

Like the Five Element system of Traditional Chinese Medicine ("Fire", "Metal", "Water", "Wood", "Earth"), these Eight Elements have been used as a central mental tool to organize reality. In fact, the entire set of what has evolved into the current count of approximately 290 base morphemes of the Mneumonese lexicon have had their rhyme structure assigned according to their positions in an analogy table formed by juxtaposing rows of different 'semantic dimensions' alongside the 'base row' containing the the eight 'Mnemonic Elements'.

(This could conceivably be done with the TCM Elements too, and would result in a language in which "Fire" rhymed with "joy", "summer", "heart", and perhaps even "small intestine", if it too were decided to be a non-compound base morpheme.)

Anyhow, in light of the fact that both the Mneumonese Elements and the I Ching Elements number eight, it is wondered if perhaps the two systems might correspond one to one. (Say, if maybe, the very same eight-folding view of reality had been by-this-author unknowningly re-discovered.)

In order to determine such a correspondence (if not perhaps even an equivalence) we would need to learn the meanings of the Elements of the I Ching, to such accuracy as to then be able to draw analogy to them from the Mneumonese perspective. (And, if the systems turn out to be equivalent, then this would mean that we could in fact represent them from Mneumonese directly.)

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The Mneumonese 4 Elements were originally inspired by studying the Court Cards of the Thoth Tarot, the theory of which was designed by Aliester Crowley, and the paintings, by Frieda Harris. (The court cards were grouped into four groups of the four Aristotelian Elements as represented by suit, and then further subdivided into male and female pairs.)

So, perhaps a reasonable place to start in making such of the Mneumonese Elements to those of the I Ching would be to see how Aleister Crowley himself drew such correspondences from his Tarot to the I Ching.

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According to Crowley in The Book of Thoth, each of the Court cards represents a pair of Aristotelian Elements: a 'base' Element, as represented by a suit of the Tarot (Fire : Wands; Water : Cups; Air : Swords; and Earth : Disks), and a 'modifying' Element, as represented by a card either being King (Fire), Queen (Water), Knight (Air), or Princess (Earth). He further laid out a one-to-one correspondence between these Elemental combinations, and a set of I Ching hexagrams (a. k. a. 'di-trigrams') that were likewise combinations of a choice of ...only FOUR of the eight I-Ching Elements. (Fire : Thunder; Water : Lake; Air : Wind; and Earth : Mountain.) The other four I Ching Elements of I-Ching- Fire, Sky, Rain, and I-Ching- Earth, were not incorporated.

So, following this pattern of correspondence leads us to no one-to-one I-Ching-to-Mneumonese equivalence.

However, Crowley also stated in The Book of Thoth, that he was still learning the theory of the I Ching. So perhaps his correspondence of Arestotelian Elements to those four of its eight was not entirely correct.

More study of the I Ching is needed to determine if there is perhaps an alternate interpretation and possible correspondence.

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In summary, since Mneumonese's Elemental structure and the Crowley-Harris Tarot and many other Tarots' structures reflect the Aristotelian Elements, what is really being sought here is a possible correspondence between the Aristotelian-Tarotian system and the I Ching system. The meanings with respect to Mneumonese then follow directly from that of the Tarot.

The eight etherico-chemical, physical-metabolic, informational-energetic blockages.

(And related bio-physically self-regulatory craving-responses)

(connecting pathologies of mind, to pathologies of bodily resources)

Connecting the pathologically mental,

to the pathologically physical,

via the conceptual frameworks of

physical-computational primitives,

and of there-through occupation of thusly composed territory,

by physically-embodying, etherical-spiritual beings.

A very old set of correlated ideas,

recently re-brought to attentive light,

and re-created in-form-of linear, English-into-translated document,

—but also, long hitherto,

used by mothers, doctors, and royalty alike,—

for keeping the natural timing and cycles of things within reasonably co-cooperating order.

Starved of physical space, a mind-guided, self-aware being may experience the mentally-and-physically boxed-in feeling of claustrophobia.

Correspondingly with regard to the etherically-and-spiritually embodied physical metabolism, a being lacking territory may become committed to sharing whatever little amount is most proximate with whatever other entities are already (knowingly or un-knowingly regardless), it-occupying, via that most mysterious and quite often greatly misunderstood mechanism of energetically-uniting 'metabolic diplomacy', that, especially among many human women, seems to correspond not un-roughly, with the oft' sexual physical state and feeling, of 'being horny'.

(Thus, what space is occupied physically-energetically, yet not 'territorially owned', may be transmutatively 'eaten' such that the spatially co-occupied region becomes likewise co-embodied, via this natural spatial-equilibrium- restoring 'backup', 'dipolomatic' metabolism of literal, physical territory.)

Oppositely now, overwhelmed with empty, open, foreboding space, and lacking physical anchor, one may experience mentally the mentally overwhelmed state of agoraphobia.

Correspondingly, a body whose territory has by-whatever-means become empty of metabolically-sustaining, physically-and-metally grounding resource, can in the most basic manner of physical subsistence, become re- physically connected and grounded, by consuming some form of solid food.

(Thus, in this case, a space, occupied territorially but not properly embodied, can be filled, re-cast, and re-integrated, with newly re-animated life, via the consumption of some form of solid (as well as digestively-metabolically catalytically active) food.)

Considering now the 'mental' space within a life-embodied body...

Starved of any free mental room, or 'memory', a mind can becomd frustrated. (And, one good solution to this type of problem, on the purely mental level, is to get rid of mental clutter that is just sitting around there, taking up precious semi-conscious memory... for one important type of instance, by doing- and becoming done-with-, once and for all, many the stray, mentally niggling, procrastinated task.

And then in that domain which spans across between the mental and the physical, a mind-body that is correspondently lacking in adequate amount of open, available free space to take up resonance with and hold new living information substance, and thus continue to function as a reservour and channel of continuing-to-unfold and be-reborn, living informationally-structured-and-patterned energy of life, …

may grow sick to some of some already-held informational-energetic loads which have ceased to live vibrantly—have become only so much dead weight. … And such an internal life-space lacking body-mind-system, reacting life-lovingly, may become inclined to purge and be rid-of such dead and ossified mental-and-physical things,—perhaps most clearly illustratorily, by excretion of space-consuming physical matter from the gut, (or urinary bladder, or even stomach, … even via phlem,) so that, along the new area of gut-lining that is freed, (or using space expanded-into by neighboring organs to the likewise volumetrically relieved bladder and/or stomach,) and within the new physically-freed space and using likewise-liberated chi, new living information can energetically take up living resonance and thus residence.

(Thus, a nauseous or otherwise excretorily-needing mind-body, can eject what has become mostly waste, and thusly make-room-for and accept into living residence new gifts (from one's very-same just-past living self, or even from another, external source), of new continuation of living informationally- semi-self-directed-energy—of chi.)

((And, of course, this goes in addition to many other etherico-physical mechanisms of informationo-energetic excretion and information-holding-substance recyclation.))

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(Thus, what is 'eaten' in the excretory case, is empty space.)

((And, in general, informationally capacitative space, within the body's living physical-informationo-energetic computational substrate.))

And then, oppositely again, it is also possible for a person to have more occupationally functional, and functioning-or-available, mental space, than is possessed the knowledge and wisdom to know what to do with—too much working memory for one's own good, if you will.

Such a person may find more connections and reach more conclusions than are feasible, to sanely, all-at-once handle.

Especially, if one or more conclusions or otherwise beliefs that have gone into the mental-structural framework for holding up such a far-concluded and far-self-compositionally-evolved state, may be wrong—perhaps, due, to false assumption, misinterpretation, or,—and especially common among human inhabitants of our present, ra-computerized world, lies.

And such a person, whose mental state may have evolved, during this waking-period, too far past acceptable-by-nearby-human-standards, reality, may,—and especially while living amongst and within the influence of such contemporarily living humans,—become paranoid.

Especially, if one or more of the conclusions, during this waking-period, reached with fair amount of confidence, be that one or more of the lies which one has been told, which may be concealing some of the more illicit past actions and continued behaviors, of said humans nearby in can-influencable range, indeed be different, than what is actually true.

Such a questioning person, may, if only for the sake of their own safety, as well as sanity, wish to mentally circumnavigate, and erase, or forget.

...And, one very effective, natural way, of clearing an overly-far-built-out and labyrinthinely cluttered mind, is to succumb to the eventually inevitable pull of mental tiredness, and settle into sleep. (Upon the waking-out-of, the mind is again clear, and empty; room is free again to rebuild, from simplest summarized and now-upon-waking, selectively re-cycled memory, a new, as-of-yet-completely-uncluttered, new mental landscape, with which to continue to guide a physically-spacially-reconnected mind through a new operationally-spacially-embodied period of waking existence.)

(Thus, an over-cluttered memory can be cleared so as to then be perhaps more efficiently re-allocated, by going to sleep.)

Lacking sufficient etherico-informational-energetic potential to initiate new movement out of some particular high-momentum, static, stagnant physical-mental-energetic state, one can be said to be 'locked', in a mental-and-physical state of lethargy; one is thus quite idiomatically-truly, feint of heart; literally lacking in sufficient chi to shift the rhythm of the mind's clock, out of some sticky rhythm and state.

Corresponding to this sort of lack of sufficient potential of immediately tappable and re-motioned-edly redirectable chi with which to kick-start a lethargic, static mind-and-body up and over a threshold of lethargic energetic pit, in the purely physical and electrochemical-osmotic domain of etherico-chemical way of things, the amount of osmotically-stored available source of instantly-creatable and then electrostatically-dischargedly redirectable energy that can be charged up at once, and then within one short time period continually recyclably sustained, can be expanded, by consuming, to fill the body's living fluid water, adequate amounts of salts.

(Thus, capacity to sustain strong power output, with which to affect significant and lasting etherico-informational-metabolic-energetic change, can be fed by consuming proper amount of proper ratio of electrolytically computationally and motor-functively active salts.)

Overly filled with energized motion, and without ample moving, living, life-holding tissue and motor-structures to hold all of this moving informationally-pregnant energy, a metabolically moving and active organism can become overwhelmed by the ensuing chaos created by conflicting intercontaining moving and evolving processes, and 'choice' on too many simultaneously active and seeking and as-of-yet-incomplete tasks that are actively, embodied-motive-space- and chi- consuming at once. Such a chaotically performance-degraded entity can perhaps be apt' described as suffering from an overwhelmingly redundantly held-in-stalling-motion state of restlessness. (And, the posture of such a 'restless' creature may oft' appear fidgety, as every available motorly functive part of its body begins to to take on and share some of this dynamically unrestive type of active mental load.)

Such a space- and degrees-of-freedom- starved mind-body can increase its capacity for active, moving information-holding-and-proliferating energy, both of the macro-scopic, physical-momentum-carrying motor form, and also micro-scopic processes as well, by increasing total intra-body organ and fluid volume, by consuming water.

(Thus, an excess of inter-constrained, moving info-energetic processes, can be given more total working-room, by diluting their inter-locking and inter-twisted spaces of collision-prone residence, with extra, lubricative, living-fluid-room.)

((And thus-thus, water, in the body, is the sky,

within which animations of living-energy,

fly.))

Lacking in actively life-cycling, active, memory-and-physical-space-and-metabolically-living-structure inhabitant consciousness-conductive, informationally-energetically living-and-breathing processes-of-consciously-inhabited body available to live and perceive and compute—to experience, and think,

the conscious sum and multiplicative totality within this organism may stagnate, stuck only perceiving and re-perceiving already-familiar consciousness-handle-able and label-able and otherwise understandable phenomena. And, unable to summon up adequate additional 'free attention', to call up more not-already fixed-pattern-bound metabolic-energetic informational vehicles of fresh attentive consciousness, we would often say that such a mind-and-body system—such a person, has become bored.

Acting on/within the purely mental level/scope of things, one solution to this problem is identical to that for mental frustration—starvation not of free attention, but of memory; to wrap up some already existing focuses of perhaps no longer even hardly consciously recognized attention, so as to free up more attentive ability (as well as, also, memory) with which to next direct toward—upon, a new experience or task.

And correspondingly on/within the physical scopular plane, when the metabolic, motor-physical space available to hold freshly renewed, and still-fresh, self-renewing, consciously embodied attentive mental flow; when the amount of computationally-self-and-them processing attention-giving mental computational-resource becomes starved; when seemingly all existing consciously perceiving mental-metabolic substance of attention,—

is occupied, by already imposed, continued to be being imposed, and maybe even self-imposing active perceivable representation of reality-and/or-other-stuff—of idea,

extra 'omph', can be pumped into one's most free-will conductive, least occupied and controlled by externally or otherwise imposed demand 'ideaic substance', to 'detach from' what amount of demand is being pulled by existing processes and focuses that are calling for continued attention—mental computation, by 'breathing-into-them' additional counter-impositionary life, with which, they can, again, have full, at least self-imposing leverage, to willingly redirect, toward and then upon, a new attentive path of one's own free choosing.

(And, purely metabolically-physically, the way that the human body fights back against an overloaded demand on attention from perhaps an excessively-externally-imposed semantic space, is by literally breathing, more deeply and rapidly, so as to deliver more oxygen, coolant, and otherwise chemical and thermal-ventilatory and otherwise diffusive support to the physical support systems of consciousness, free will, and mind.)

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(Thus, in order to kick up the info-thermodynamic temperature of a mental-physical system that is starved of free attention,

speed of delivery, cycling, and otherwise rate-inflatable process of diffusion is increased—most notably, by increase of physical rate of diffusive processes in lung and blood by increase of the volumetric pace of cycling of breath. (As well as, as pertains to the cycling of blood, of heart rate too.) )

And then, faced with the opposite-to-this problem of having a mind over-burdened by an excess of free, all-too-ready-to-perceive-indiscriminately attention, one may become, in pose, posture, and in continued manner, in anything that one physically and mentally does, awkward. (And oft', respond, by seeking, somewhere, something comfortable and safe, toward which, to, upon, direct one's quantity of excess, all too hot to grab and mentally-compute, mind- processing-resource, attention.)

And, also, another way of handling this sort of problem—one, which makes use of a mechanism acting on-and-in the correlary physical level to mind, is to be still. To grab hold onto stillness, continued constancy, not ever-progressing change, but the just-recent-and-still-present state of spontaneous, present, self, everywhere—to halt progress, by holding to the hither-now, to spread throughout the mind-and-body the quality and manner of staying the same;

free-attention-yielding, mutually-independently informationally-moving processes tend toward synchronicity with each other, and, with themselves, through time, toward ever, complexity-pruned, pattern-mergingly-synchrony-into fewer and consciously-brighter attentive consciousness-holding informationly-blobular entity—and, continuing to hold to core-self-constancy, toward serenely placid, tranquil, energized, conscious, ready but not over-eager, stillness.

(Thus, an excess of too-ready attention, can become reigned-in, by self-anchoring, via stilling of physical and otherwise metabolic or metabolically facilitative motion, in continued holding of a constant, steady state, of some hopefully well-grounded resting, 'landing' state of non-motion. (And for one important instance in creating physical bottleneck of further chaotic-motion-tending metabolism, is of slowing, and/or even complete stillness, of all of body, even breath. (And at the least in the case of the heart, slowing and regularization into more constant rhythm.)) )

((And in a healthy, mentally-and-physically actively starch-consuming, peace-time -living human, another mechanism -and-behavior that is often used to relieve this sort of problem, whose mechanism of action includes aspects of both of these other two mechana of behavior on both the mental and physical levels, is laughter. (Physically, by synchronizing the breath, and purging the lung of chaotic, non-self-resonating chi, as well as also of volume of air. (And also, as it pulsedly deflates, also, further charges the blood, with new freshness, upon which it can more efficiently last, through a following stillness of breath.)) (And mentally, by directing mental attentive energy towards the hailing and continued-ly constant re-hailing, of some very comfortable, safe, and maybe, even dually, also valuable in and of itself, alternate focus (and not even just within one attentively-chaotically-challenged organism, but pan-bodily, within the entire social organism of the group). Thus, laughter unites not just the disharmony of mind within a single one-physical-body-organism, but even also within an entire multi-body, hitherto maybe even completely telepathically completely disunified hitherto non-gestalt-whole-ally unified collection.) ))

((And so, in a healthy, non- egoically-bloated, or otherwise attention-all-already-taken-and-free-will-sapped by existing percept—be it maybe praise, ridicule, or any other form of projected temporally-identially constant and thus not free-flowing identity,

human,

a continuous 'pilot flame' of internal, now-by-now,

free-will-flowing mental change,

is kept continuously living,

on the body's breath.

(Be it, the 'outer breath' of external air, by lung, or likewise blood-circulatory inner (breath), of heart.) ))

A collection of pieces I wrote a long time ago, expressing some of the Mnemonites' 'primitive' medical [outlooks/views]

(as they were [intuitively-artistically understood], by me, at the time.)

Some further minor additions and clarifications have been later added, with the [help; aid] of some contemporary, and even modern, understandings; for two instances, regarding, respectively, types of food, and intestinal anatomy.

#The eight emotional blockages, and the eight territorial motions, put to use (and the eight informational motions, 'in motion')

Previously known jokingly as the "eight 'un-motions'", as well as pre-previosly referred to as "the eight pathologies of mind", the "eight emotional blockages" are a set of eight 'stuck', 'unmoving' states of existence which together constitute a system of 'folk medicine' used by the Mnemonites for understanding various stagnant, 'stuck' modes of mental-emotional existence.

This system was originally inspired from an incomplete system of "[entrancements]", referred to in acknowledged in-coprehensiveness in a passage of Mayamoto Musashi's "Book of Five Scrolls".

Additionally related to these eight 'emotional blockages', are eight [energetic, and eight] 'territorial motions', which, when performed in each of the pathologically emotionally stuck situations, can help to free up or otherwise make-available-for-use energy that was hitherto locked up or otherwise not-in-a-directly-accessible-form, so that the 're-moting' entity can (via the application of the corresponding 'informational motion') again come to conduct or channel^(1) a new surge of the corresponding hitherto, un-embody^(1)-able, 'un-motable', emotion.

1. "Embodiment" and "Channeling" being used here to refer to the same concept; an 'emoter' channels an informational-emotional wave, which, her^(2, 3), in turn, embodies.

2. Isn't the accusative delightful? Such possibilities for word ordering! English only marks the nominative/accusitive case distinction on its personal pronouns. ("it" being excluded), but some languages, for instance Esperanto, offer this flexibility of word order for all [hypernym of "pronoun" and "noun"]'s.

3. Note that feminine pronoun "her" has been chosen here, in lack of an English singular personal pronoun. (The next best option perhaps being the polysemically plural-or-singular (accusative) personal pronoun: "them".) (From, nominative: "they"; accusative: "them"; standard possessive: "their"; reflexive possessive: "theirs".)

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Starting with the 'un-motion' commonly realized as a feeling of 'paranoia', and/or, 'guilt'.

Paranoia, the mnemonites' common-sense way of thinking would say, results from an excess of knowledge, from a cluttered mind, containing much too many lies and otherwise useless or hurtful or fear-invoking knowledge, perhaps even once useful, but now grown out-dated, ossified, stale.

To restore life to this sort of mental situation, a mnemonite mother would say, one must let go^(1) of some attachments, cry or otherwise grieve for their loss, and then, within the resultant mental space that is opened up, and using the emotional energy that has been freed through the letting-go of the attachments, replace^(2) the relinquished knowledge*, possessions, or habits with something fresh**.***

* The relinquishment of knowledge... how does one let go of the possession of an idea? Well, for starters, one can apply doubt to it. Or, maybe just, at the very least, try to set it outside of one's present scope of mental space and time, for the moment. (Sort of like how when one reads a good fantasy book, one must, for the fully immersive experience, temporarily step out of 'real life reality', and thus temporarily, in a sort-of, 'fantasy space', give the ideas expressed in the book full reign. (Just be careful how you gate the subsequent adaption and adoption of ideas from this 'fantasy space' scopally outward into your surrounding life, or you would surely become insane... Maybe that's a good grounds for applying a little more 'metaphorical salt' to all of the (supposed) non-fiction that we allow into our scopal stomachs... For, how true do you think all of it actually is? Hmm? :o ))

** See related solution to 'frustration', or the lack of mental substrate.

*** And, if the process of grieving is thorough, also, maybe not even very structurally different than before; just re-enlivened; and maybe even repaired.

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Next, moving on to the related 'un-motion' of 'frustration'...

Here, one has a shortage of any valuable mental substance or substrate, with which to hold and support new and useful mental motion along some new and meaningful path... So, try as one might to get out of a frustrating impasse, one just doesn't seem to have sufficient mental territory or 'land' to even do anything, except to [perhaps] keep on flailing in an open sea of in-ability-to[-clearly]-think.

The common remedy supplied by a mnemonite mother who yields to this ailment of a crying or otherwise complaining child would be to share^(1) with it a gift of some of her own true, functioning knowledge* which she deems most appropriate for the child or otherwise struggling person to take hold on, and which, if given in true, caring, motherly love, will give^(2) to the recipient the sort of memory which persists, faithfully providing mental anchorage for them again and again as they continue to use it as a foot-hold and support for their own now-hopefully-more-healthily-growing memory garden.

* Often, this would be in the form of a story, often told to a child sitting in her lap. Or, if the child is pre-verbal, simply that most basic act of holding and touching the child again, so that the basic, mother-is-my-home-and-fortress sense of love, security, and central focus is restored.

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Intriguingly, these two seemingly opposed emotionally-stuck states of: memory excess, in which one searches vainly for some promising directions of focus or action, and memory shortage, in which one sees nothing of value to think or do at all, often occur hand in hand, since one, suffering in the [paranoid indecision of a cluttered mind], who follows mother's advice and decides to let go of old, outdated, wrong, or otherwise useless thoughts, might realize in dismay that all of it is useless, right now, and in a moment of perhaps overwhelmed despair, relinquish attachment to the whole lot.

And then, after such a crisis, possibly realized as a tearful emotional meltdown, one is left empty, and, lacking any new guidance or direction, subject to the state of mental emptiness that we've been referring to as frustration.

Thus, when someone who has been lost in a labarynth of disinformation, confusion, and lies, falls, it is always good for there to be a loving friend, parent, or other support figure to be there, available and willing to give the newly re-emptied person some truth that is, unlike the massive, toxic load of mental baggage that they have just purged, living with that most sacred energy of caring, altruistic, protective emotion that is [for minimally primary instance] (hopefully!) awakened [(or otherwise enlivened)] when someone dear to us becomes under threat,

is, at the very least, true, in the emotional freshness that it is delivered to the newly mentally unanchored person, and will thus provide them, at the very least, with a new anchor upon which to get up again, whose 'true-ness' is, if not also hopefully relatively more true than the pack of lies that was just metaphorically-vomited, at least, alive with the underlying wordless truth of human companionship.*

* Thus, sometimes, it's less what you say, that matters, than simply that you said.**

** However, if you say the wrong thing to someone who hasn't just relinquished their hold on their delusions, perhaps to someone stuck in some of the more dangerous un-motions, this can also come back to bite you, if, for instance, this person grabs into what you've said from a warped perspective of lies, and susequently uses it against you...

Or, lacking that, some good, strong, hitherto dormant memories that, in the absense of any other attachments, may break free from the hidden recessed of your past and sprout forth again into renewed, un-tainted freshness, and thus save you from your crisis. Thus, you can often be your own best friend and savior. (So, a set of good, strong, robust, core memories, religious principles or otherwise principles, or attachments to loved ones being the most obvious, can be very grounding in an otherwise very unpredictable and frightening world.)

And also of import here is simply one's present situation and experience. Often, the most ground-breaking and life-changing realizations are formed in moments of total giving-up, all-time-low desperation, when, finally free from the world-view and life-direction that one was attached to, one 'wakes up', and looks for the first time in one-doesn't-even-remember-how-long at the most foundational basics of one's present.*^(,) **

* In the case of one such break-down described by Timothy Leary, Leary realized that he was, first-and-foremost, a male-sexed animal with two cubs.

** In another such break-down that happened to Herman Hesse's historical-fiction-al character Siddhartha, Siddhartha, finding himself at a dead end in a worthless life, began to lean over a river with the aim of drowning himself. However, as he finally let go of his attachment to his whole life, his old, long-silent soul was again freed up enough room to make one brief flash of reappearance [into/through his meat- and alcohol- toxified and poisoned body] and thus save him and direct him down a new, wholesome path. (The flash being brief, presumably because at that point in his physical life, his health had degraded considerably through a long history of eating meats and other toxin-heavy foods, drinking alchohol, and excessive sexual indulgence. Not to mention perhaps the accumulation of a great and heavy load of bad karma through unethical business practices.)

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Next, it may sometimes be the case that one just feels certain, that one is onto the right idea(s) and directions of progress, but just cannnot summon or sustain sufficient mental motion, or attention, to get things turning. (Here, we would say that we are in a stuck state of attention shortage, also known as boredom^(B.).)

Some common mnemonese advice for getting out of this sort of mental rut is to be assertive, and to 'metaphorically-say' to the universe, 'I was born, and here I am, and I deserve a moment of attention to help get me moving again here!' Here, one who feels unjustly abandoned finds the momentary empowerment of feeling justly entitled to some aid, and, through a brief summoning-up-and-then-spending of energy, demands to their environment, 'hey, look at me, I need your attention for a moment!' And thus, the attentive focus of one/some entities and/or energies in one's surroundings is, at least for the moment, transferred^(2) over to the idea or task being hailed. (As well as sometimes, awakened out of some other 'un-motive' stupor, for instance, lethargy. More on that one in a bit. But I've digressed...)

When exercising this sort of imposing^(1) of one's need, it is very important that one balance the zeal or even rage of the call or demand with an ample amount of the care and importance that one feels toward the problem being spread^(2). This way, the energies and/or parties that would come to one's aid have ample motivatory energy to do so, and are repaid in full via the additional self-love and gratitude that hopefully begin to flow once again in renewed vigour out of the hitherto-boringly-stuck, now-again-beautifully-flowing-and-otherwise-moving, process.

If no such sufficient amount of love is available to pay for the demand inflicted upon one's surrounding parties and/or energies, then one may need to reconsider the value of continuing persual of that particular path, and perhaps let some attachments go... (At least for the present time; some particularly hard-to-get-moving ideas may simply have been a little too far ahead of the time of their then-contemporary soil, and may yet sprout again during a more opportune and otherwise accepting period.)

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Next, let's consider the pathological case of attention excess.

Now, far from being lacking of attention, one instead finds oneself un-preparedly 'in the spotlight', totally self-conscious, and unable to handle the pressure and chaotic tendencies of this 'too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen' [type of] situation.

The common mnemonic knowledge solution here is to focus and hone in on what is most core, central, and ultimately, essential, to the activity at hand, and to hold on^(1) with utmost priority to that.^(A) Then, (hopefully!) all surrounding focuses* focused-upon-stuff*, all auxilliary excess mental motion, will stay relatively close by 'in orbit', and thus all resonate more-or-less along the same-ish direction, and therefore not cause one to fall apart into a silly, unable-to-perform, embarrassed, giddy mess.

Thus, in the light of too many eyes, one reinforces^(2) what is most centrally important... and defining, of whatever labor-of-love one is being observed at. Which, as co-dissonant attentions synchronize, releases cascades of that communicatory, unificatory, emotion of mirth,** as people suddenly 'get it'.

And thuswise, the capacity for bearing attention is increased, and the state of excess, relaxed.

* English has no uniquely-phonetically-defining substantial for "focus"? (Aside from, of course, "focused-upon-stuff"...)

** At least, within the sense of humor shared among the Mnemonites, who delight most at wholesome, revelatory bursts of insight.

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It is of great significance that these two, also-related strategies for dealing with boring, draining, dragging attention shortage, and awkward, confuddling, derailing attention surplus, also can be used in tandem, most commonly, perhaps, by someone making a live performance of a process art, such as an improvised dance, or semi-improvised song, poem, or especially, stand-up comedy or even more formal speech.

At the beginning, when the attention of the audience may be scattered or low, one may resort to rousing, self-righteousness-invoking jabs, either directly at the audience, or perhaps more tactfully* at some third-and-not-present party.

Then, once the art form is flowing well, a good orator or otherwise performer can commence to ride the rises and swells of arising attention among the audience, timelily tailoring content or added remarks in order to help facilitate unity and cohesion, both among the audience, and between the audience as a whole and the performer(s) and performance.

(And then, you can tell a performance is falling apart when all the speaker seems to be doing is resorting back to rousting the audience, after only so long a duration of which (depending upon the particular circumstance) it may become acceptible for audience members to start talking (or yelling) over them.)

* Or in the view of the Mnemonites, less tactfully.

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Of perhaps even greater significance with regard to those latter two, mental motion, a. k. a. attention—related 'un-motions', is a great difference in the relative priority placed upon them, relative to that with which are held the former two pathological extremes of quantity of mental substance.

(Which is viewed as both the containing vessel, as well as the very medium, of thought.) For, how can one, lacking a stable and meaningfully absorbed mental existence, even begin to consider that secondary process of mental motion? For, mental motion, however abundant or scarce, in the absense of any well grounded mental substance, can only lead to an endless, fruitless, looping expenditure, with no possible destination but to get stuck in a drowning, leaking, rut. As the saying goes, motion (or non-motion) among garbage can yield only more garbage.

Thus, the priority of first establishing wholesome, sustaining, mental stability, is viewed to entirely eclipse that of establishing and then regulating the forces of flow which act within and upon one's mental landscape, which, lacking that, serve as nothing more than forces of blind, destructive, chaotic change.

Rather, these latter two metabolisms of attention regulation are viewed as secondary, auxilliary, and temperamental to the more foundational mechanisms of managing the quality and purity, and the truth, of a person, family, tribe, or culture's currently mentally-and-etherically-alive state.

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And then, of course, in the most successful, powerfully-emotionally-felt, emotionally-moved-by speech, a speaker-audience-complex, a. k. a. performance, may transcend across the very e-motions, from mere zeal toward, and then recognition of, truth, towards, actual, new creation and co-living of newly created experience, perhaps even cried-into as one is moved to tears of profound discovery, and/or long-lost re-cognition.

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Whew! So that about wraps up the four, totally mental 'un-motions'. Let us most curious and dedicated readers now move more heatedly into that realm of mind that spans into the body's literal, physical, poses and movements.

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Now moving on to the 'un-motion' associated with perhaps the most uncomfortable* of all of the emotions... fear.

* At least, maybe for us, who are living in cultures that are habitually afraid of facing fear. Many a mnemonite would actually argue that anger is much more uncomfortable, damaging, and just generally horrible to feel, and would much prefer a healthy dose of fear of death to that other, death doling emotion.

When someone can't fear, the mnemonites' mnemonic way of thinking suggests, they are suffering from a lack of physical, mental-etherical motion. One suffering from this ailment of 'can't fear' often has cozied themselves up in a large quantity of protective or escapist, a. k. a. mentally protective, possessions, so much so that they have become numbed of their survival instincts, lost touch with their body's own primal, physically rooted* way of moving throughout their world and life, ...and lost touch with that most-core of all survival instincts: fear of death.

* for instance, in the breath

[One of] [t]he mnemonites' common recommended practice[s] for waking up from this sort of (lethargic) rut, is to give in and relinquish^(1) hold on (and thus disconnect^(2) from) possessions* and long-held assertions about who is 'right' about something where disagreement is keeping an idea stuck at an un-moving impasse, and face one's fear that one might be 'wrong', or even the fear of moving on without some particular mentally cozy-ing or physically protective possessions, and feel, and really allow to be-felt, [(in such amount as is healthily and reasonably handleable)] a renewed sense of fear.

* Or, if a cause of a depression is determined to be entirely physical, and, intestinal, often the administration of a magnesium- or otherwise Alkali-Earth- based laxative—otherwise hypertonically osmotically acting laxative**—perhaps even ileum-and/or-large-intestine- nutrient-reabsorption -facilitative -and/or -compensatory laxative, will help rid the ailee of whatever internal possession was weighing them down!

** Perhaps most centrally-exemplary, some not- homeostatically off-throwing mixture or brew***, of sodium- potassium- chloride.

*** (possibly an augmented rendition of; having a base of)

Often this new burst of fear helps one have a revelation which finally breaks one out of an impasse of lack-of physical-to-mental emotive and otherwise motive connection, and using the newfound energy freed from the finally released or finally doubted-seriously attachments, the resultant mental and physical space can be filled with motion renewed. (And, one's emotional state redirected from the fear of losing something, to the thrill of doing what it takes to human-up and willingly 'push', at the straining-to-be-freed possessions, to willingly do this in spite of some temporary discomfort and lack of feeling secure, and then begin sending new 'messages' of self-direction into one's environment, body, world.)

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And then, when one suffers from a motion excess...

In this situation, one may have trouble holding still, and perhaps be described as feeling, restless.

Here, a mnemonic doctor would likely say, one's body contains too much chi that is in motion, relative to available or useful, attention-holding, physically-grounded outlets, and can benefit from making new connections, relative to one's environment.

This particular stuck-motion often results, they believe, from a lack of grounding, deep, meaningful interpersonal relationships that would otherwise provide a steady, healthy supply of areas toward which to direct one's physical energy, and, lacking a lush social grounding, one's thoughts and life direction have trouble staying ordered, and thus result in the continued precipitation and perpetuation of this sort of chaotic, un-knowing-what-to-do-with sort of chi.

Long-term, the typically mnemonically-understood solution to restlessness is to send out^(1) one's energy in a new direction—maybe travel to a gathering of a new social circle—so that [(in renewed connection^(2))] one can again feel the thrill of doing something meaningful and important.

Shorter-term, two temporary and fairly practical solutions are to travel physically*, and, if one still has too much remaining, non-spendable mental-physical motion at the end of one's day and doings, even eating starchy** or otherwise entropy-rich, (or otherwise, conducive to facilitating expansion of entropy,) food**, which serves as a chemical means of absorbing the excess chi.***

* as well as to be taking in sufficient quantities of water

** also, the less laster**** resort of thermodynamic means of absorbing it, via a hot tea, or soup

*** (And also serves the additional benefit of adding to the body's reserves of fats (and also many other useful chemical substances).)

**** The consumption of solid- or solid-derived- foods being especially last-resort, if reserves are limited. (And, in any case, if one is traveling, a weight, to, in the first place, be carrying.)^(V)

V. And not to mention, many starchy foods also contain other substances, which are toxins, and/or, can constipate^(V*).

V* can form into constipatory matter; can (that way or even not-impossibly otherwise) contribute-causally-toward constipation.

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And then—let's not forget, to connect back between: from lethargic motion shortage, and inability to feel that back-up, last-resort, finally-re-motivating emotion of fear, and, to, on the moving side of things, the problem of un-directed-motion -excess, and what to do with it.

Often, in the inevitably-moving aftermath of a fear-awakening event, one automatically feels a renewed sense of thrill as one now moves onward from some, presumably, successfully-escaped or diverted life-threatening situation.

However, as this natural, in-memory-of-a-fear-survived-or-otherwise-well-handled thrill fades, one's remaining, bodily-motive energy can lose its clear, directed, emotionally-grounded-and-guided realization as thrill, and begin to degrade again, perhaps at first into a wandering feeling of restlessness, or, if one eats or sleeps, (or even smokes*!) too much as a means of escape from this feeling, as a renewed sense of lethargy.

* (Tobacco.)

Thus, it is considered very important, by many the mnemonic warrior, to keep renewed and fresh in one's mind, a re-membered, a memory of one's dearest, most heart-movingly-motivating fears, so that one continues to move ahead of any actual possible realization them-of, pre-emptively, and thus is well-ready, to prevent, any actual, disastrous, occurrence.

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As for the final two 'un-motions' related to those most taboo-related emotions of sexually-related lust, as well as religiously-strongly-felt awe, the Mnemonites have chosen to censor^(5) their perhaps often too-freely-giving metaphorical-mouthes on the mmemonic common- body-sense understandings of these final two energetic concepts having to do with one's very, etherico-physically grounded existence in space.*^(, 3)

* >!As-not-well-as, a likewise synergisis of how the not-here-dissected techniques most certainly (\s) do not overlap, say, within the topic of planned parenthood.**!<

** >!As well as within otherwise-sexually-related love-making.***^(,) ****!<

*** >!As opposed to, …love-TAKING. :[ ]!<

**** >!Also not to be confused with, many sorts of (non-sexual) love-making.!<

(They have, however, at least agreed to offer up the likewise analogically roughly-correspondent English translations of the corresponding 'stuck', 'unmoving' (and un-comfortable!) states as: in the case of 'can't lust', 'claustrophobia', and in the case of 'can't awe'... 'agoraphobia'.)

!Of course, any thoroughly well-cultured, open-minded, well-meaning reader who is not a pervert and/or habitual masturbator and/or for-all-practical-intents-and-purposes, non-God-revering, non-God-fearing, atheist, may, using one/some of the very many very-generously-already-provided analogy schemes, deduce their own mneumonesian-mnemonic understandings of these final two, very powerful, and perhaps likewise, justifiably taboo'ed, energetic concepts.!< (<-- possibly offensive)

Agape,
[an as-of-during-this-writing] local* mnemonic and alchemical ambassador**,
/u/justonium

* At least, to this subreddit…^(4)

** Ambassador, translator… channeler… whatever.

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...And also corresponding to these eight 'stuck' mental-physical 'non'-motions, are eight 'bodily-functive' motions that, when performed in each of these stuck states, [can]* also help to get things moving again on a more directly physical level, circumventing the mind completely.

* ([are believed to be able to])

Below is a table summarizing [some] of the various, crystallinely interwoven concepts covered in this post.

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!Thus, for the pathologies of claustrophobia and agorophobia, any thoroughly perverted or otherwise-corrupted American or otherwise modernized human can still be safely [recommended], for instance in the case of hemmed-in, sufficatingly muggy claustrophobia, a stroll out-of-doors-and-windows, in some ideally, brisk, chilly weather, and, likewise, anyone suffering from a perhaps nauseating sense of open, empty space and lack of support, be it physical, mental, or spiritual, may be also safely [recommended] to [listen] to awe-inspiring, beautiful, soothing, grounding music, or even, if no source of decent-quality music or other atmospheric-earthic sound is available, to engage in that most ancient, and portable, art, and act, of chant. ...And in either case, without requiring any knowledge of how-and-why these techniques [work]. (Thus, only the most intelligent, wise, and mnemonically-learned doctors possess the true, generalized understandings of by-what-mechanisms these most-taboo-connected ailments of body and mind, of sex, and of sects, proliferate, and can be safely (or unsafely!) cured.)!< (<-- possibly offensive)

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- written during December of 2019

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Footnotes:

1. Energetic motion.

2. Informational motion.

3. Though, for an alternate handling of the topic of personal space, the interested reader may of course refer back to its alternate coverage in this not-far-unrelated post about qualitative distances…

4. For other attempted alchemical syntheses of a unified, consciousness-integrated summary of etherico-physical knowledge, one can defer to some other subreddits; for instance, /r/Echerdex.

5. Though this wouldn’t be the first instance of censorship with regards to this sub… Also censored was their transmission of the four alchemically ‘wetter’ social motions, for which a more detailed and thorough English transcription was not even attempted.

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EPILOGUE:^(D, E)

“[…] energetic[] and [] territorial motions […]”

… But wait? What about the accompanying territorial motions?

…

In the case of the frustrative impasse of living-memory shortage,

the solution used by the mnemonite mother is to give of her own living territory,

inviting the frustrated, successfully-producing-territory- lacking child into it to share some of hers that is already more cultivatedly maturely fertily so;

territory is yielded—‘opened’; invited into and begun to be, by the invitee, used or otherwise inhabited;

and within the newly having-begun-to-be-newly-inhabited territory,

new memetic life is sowed, planted; sprouted; restored.

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...And in the case of an already-producing, but disorganizationally devolved, state of mind—a used-memory excess,

the 'territorial' solution, is to continue to give nurture and support,

(with the inclusion of clutter removal—pruning)

unto territory that has already been yielded,

and is already and continued-to-be looked after.

…

In the case of an attention shortage,

and a self-hailing call-to-attention there-in,

new territory is requested; bargained for; temporarily claimed, or ‘borrowed’;

or otherwise, (without expectation of recourse) claimed, captured,

into one’s possession, taken.

…

…And in the case of consolidating and unifying an attention excess,

an already inhabited, and now attention-hot, territory, is used;

and in its over-attended—even disputed—use, is

(as well as, quite possibly, more clearly elucidated—clarified)

held on to, defended.

…

In the case of letting some ideas or otherwise possessions go,

in a motion shortage,

territory is exited;

and from the hitherto static occupyance,

motion re-commenced.

…

And often, in the case of dealing with, handling, suc-sequent motion excess,

one’s motion is directed into the travel among new territory,

and the creation of new connection, however temporary, there-in‘s;

traveling transiently thus, one doesn’t lay down ties lasting or static enough to necessarily lay claim;

rather, an entirely transient traveling entity can be understood to ‘interact with’ territory,

even if not to inhabit or possess it.

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And in the case of a shortage of space,

territory is (however willingly or unwillingly) co-habited; shared;

focus is directed to more efficient re-allocation of its use…

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…Until, such a time that co-operative co-habitation,

and/or, new habitation,

(of territory, emptied, or otherwise empty,

perhaps even to the point of space excess

—empty, or in any case, available, newly achieved)

is newly temporally up-to-date-edly- grounded-within-space-edly realized;

re-established, or otherwise established;

focus, directed, too, upon allocation anew.

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- epilogue written during the northern-hemisphere summer of 2021

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Below is another analogy table displaying the eight territorial motions along with analogical juxtapositions with some other nearby-ly related Mneumonese-interpretted concepts.

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Appendix:

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A.

“[…] to focus on what is most […] central[ly] essential[] to the activity at hand […]”

Or in any case,
[to] meditatively,
seek stillness.

[…To] hold on to,
if not what is chosen as centrally essential,
to some performance or other activity,
to, at least, what is currently present;
the [‘]hither-now[‘].

[…]Something, real,
here, now.
(Which is at least more relevant,
than anywhere else.)

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Thus,
an attention-displaced awkwardness or even panic^(C.),
can be anchored,
if not upon something specific,
some particular activity;
upon constancy itself,
continuance of self;
and in any case,
in whatever-situation,
gathered;
stilled.

[…]Stilled, or progressing in some way.
In any case, with [continuance of] energy, that is stable;
and if moving, changing, [is able to] be slowed.

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B.

“[…] attention shortage, also known as boredom.”

(Or, [(more generally)]
depending upon how urgent
is/are the task(s) for which there is an attention shortage, [anxiety]*.)

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* (Anywhere from boredom;
to anxiety;
to, in the case when the urgency is immediate, and extreme, even panic^(C), if the motion is very-much needed.)

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C.

Different,
though related*,
forms of panic.

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* (Both having to do,
with a mismatch,
between amount of attention,
and amount of knowable and comfortable things to do with it
—activities; tasks; paths for it to follow.)

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D.

Epilogue - Draft 1

EPILOGUE: (prosily illustrative)

… But wait? What about the accompanying territorial motions?

…

In the case of the frustrative impasse of living-memory shortage,

the solution used by the mnemonite mother is to give of her own living territory,

inviting the frustrated, successfully-producing-territory- lacking child into it to share some of hers that is already more cultivatedly maturely fertily so.

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...And in the case of an already-producing, but disorganizationally devolved, state of mind,

the 'territorial' solution is to continue to nurture and support.

(in conjunction with clutter removal—pruning)

that which is already and continued-to-be looked after.

…

In the case of the self-hailing call-to-attention,

territory is captured, or claimed.

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… And in the case of consolidating and unifying an attention excess,

an attention-hot territory is

(as well as, quite possibly, clearly elucidated—clarified)

held on to, defended.

…

In the case of letting some ideas or otherwise possessions go,

territory is exited.

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(And often, suc-sequently,

one travels among new territory;

transiently thus, one doesn’t lay down claims lasting or static enough to necessarily lay claim;

rather, an entirely transient traveling entity can be understood to ‘interact with’ territory,

even if not to inhabit or possess it.)

…

And in the case of a shortage of space,

territory is (however willingly or unwillingly) co-habited; shared.

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… Until, such a time that co-operative co-habitation

(and/or, new habitation of territory, emptied, or otherwise empty, achieved)

is newly temporally up-to-date-edly- groundedly realized;

re-established, or otherwise established.

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E.

Epilogue - Draft 0 (a written reconstruction of the hither-then unwritten, unspoken, original ‘draft’)

EPILOGUE: (direct; to the point)

… And of the accompanying “territorial motions”?

…

In the case of a memory shortage,

territory is yielded—‘opened’; invited into and begun to be, by the invitee, used or otherwise inhabited;

and within the newly having-begun-to-be-inhabited territory,

memetic life planted, sprouted, restored.

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In the case of a memory excess,

nurture and support, is given,

unto territory already yielded.

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In the case of an attention shortage,

new territory is requested, bargained for, temporarily claimed, captured,

or otherwise, into one’s possession, taken.

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In the case of an attention excess,

already inhabited territory is used,

and in its over-attended—even disputed—

use, defended.

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In the case of motion shortage,

territory is exited;

and from the hitherto static occupyance,

motion re-commenced.

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In the case of motion excess,

motion is directed into the travel among new territory,

and the creation of new connection, however temporary, there-in‘s.

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In the case of space shortage,

focus is directed to re-allocation of its use;

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And in the case of space excess,

upon allocation anew.

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Previous Major Post: [The eight topological forms revisited in historical context]

Next major post: Connecting the pathologically mental, to the pathologically physical, via the conceptual frameworks of physical-computational primitives, and of the occupation of thusly composed territory by physically-embodying, etherical-spiritual beings.

(For things related to the continuing Mneumonese Project, current to northern hemisphere non-tropical Late Autumn / Early Winter, of Hebrew year 5781.)

Two prime examples already, being:

• The Eden books, and that people's language, Marbak; and,

• The chronicles of The Clan of the Cave Bear, whose people of central focus communicate using a language made of mixed sign and word*.***

(Technically, Harrison's Eden books are pre-historical science fiction, / fantasy.** Whatever.)

Any other fictional prehistoricalen life-bringing works are most welcome to be mentioned and described or otherwise discussed, here.

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* (Incidentally, similar to how the reptile race in the Eden books communicate--with a language likewise so sign-heavy that to comprehend, visual contact with the speaker is essential.)

** Especially when is-included-in-consideration the reptiles' extremely advanced bio-technology.

*** (And also the whole ensuing series, which as a whole is collectively known as the Earth's Children series, and apparently follows the Cro-Magnon protagonist away from her Neanderthal sign-dominant- language- using foster-clan and in among some other fellow word-dominant- language- using fellow Cro-Magnon humans.)

https://youtu.be/trCsPCm9Wt0

as i heard this (video of terrence mckenna speaking on language, 16 minutes in, it was superimposed on the thought that your Mneumanese followers want 'sounds' and 'words', 

I thought the content of this video is very applicable to Mneumanese. 

it's hard to describe, you just have to hear the dialog between terrence mckenna and another person, on language, meaning, universal communication,  sound as fundamental atom of meaning, etc. 

I was about to recommend you begin to generate actual words and sounds, and this popped up during my morning tea and study. It could give you clues to that 'ultimate' correct way to approach the sounds you choose.  but it's up to you, with your vision.  I'm a bystander lol

(Two accumulated so far; this is still a draft...)

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A few of American Folk Medicine's sayings, corrected so that they also apply for normal, healthy people, (as well as, still, to the typical Americans towards whoms they traditionally refer).

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#1. "[Sodium is bad for you.]"

(Sometimes.) More specifically...

If you are deficient in potassium, then consuming additional sodium without a corresponding intake of potassium will only further serve to exacerbate your problem. Actually, so long as you have a sufficiently abundant level of potassium, sodium is good for you.

(And supports, among many other things, water metabolism, as well as normal, healthy Kidney function.)

(And, you can even die, if you do not consume a great enough daily value, of sodium.)*

* And, holding too much trust, in this commonly believed saying, while traveling in isolated wilderness, almost killed me. (When I finally stumblingly made it back into human-inhabited country and was taken to a hospital, I was informed that, if my sodium level had dropped much further, continuing to stay conscious would have become impossible (and so I would presumably have fallen into coma and died).) Now, I never travel, without carrying with me some form of high-sodium salt.

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New sayings:

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Sodium is bad for you if you take more of it than your body has enough potassium to hold.

(And likewise, too much potassium is bad for you, if you are deficient in sodium.)**

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** And, as I discovered at a later time, can also kill you. (By flushing away your precious sodium.)

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Sodium, when consumed along with an appropriately correspondent amount of its larger and heavier analog, potassium, is good for you.

(And the converse can be said as well, of potassium.)

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(Or, just:

Sodium and potassium, when taken together in balance, are good for you.

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#2. "[High-fructose corn syrup is toxic.]"

More specifically...

High fructose corn syrup, is more toxic, than lower-fructose corn syrup (which also contains a correspondingly higher amount, of the body's natural sugar, glucose).

Furthermore, consuming any sugary substance, (even glucose), in a large amount and all in a very short period of time, causes the body to become overwhelmed with a toxically high overload of sugar.

(And farther furthermore, consuming any sugars, together with solid or semi-solid foods, can result in some sugar making it past the stomach's bottom sphincter into the gut, where it may then become an un-wanted food for harmful gut microbes--which may even also be feeding off of that other food too, instead of you. (As well as, also secreting their own toxic wastes into your gut.))

So, as well, sugary drinks and/or syrups are perhaps best consumed (as well as slowly), separately, from other foods, which would further pass on to the gut.)

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New sayings:

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Fructose, and especially sucrose, are less healthy, than glucose.

(Specifically, d-glucose, or dextrose. L-glucose, though also sweet, is not metabolizeable in humans, and functions as a laxative.)

Additionally, consuming too much of any sugar, at once, can create a toxic state in the blood; as well as, if the sugar is consumed with solid food, maybe in the gut.

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Syrups, when consumed in excess, are bad for you.

(With the ordering from least-to-most toxic, perhaps flowing from glucose* (which is the body's natural sugar fuel); to fructose (which is an entire metabolic enzymatic step away, from the target, human-usable form, glucose); to sucrose (which, as well as being a toxin, requires an additional digestive step to break it down to one part each, of fructose, and of glucose).)

* (Or, perhaps even less toxic, than glucose, is maltose. (Which (among other dextrins) is the sugar-form starches are perhaps most primarily broken apart into in the mouth, via the salivary amylase enzyme, ptyalin.) )

Interestingly, like us here on modern this-dimension planet Earth, the Mnemonites have, on, / in (, around, whatever) their parallel dimension planet Earth, in their likewise parallel-ly identical solar system, a likewise seven-day organization of Earth-turn-cycles. The correspondence between theirs, and ours, looks something like this:

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The main difference between the two systems, being that, while our mechanical-clock- based days end/start, when shadows point south-most* (and are infinitely long, and imaginary), theirs end/start, at the crack of dawn.**

* Technically, outside of the tropics, equatorward-most.

** Or, depending upon which clan you ask, at the preceding night-rise.***

*** Thus, at night, these two different schools of dating, even in identical time zone, yet do not share the same date. See modified, only during-the-day- overlapping table:

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Medical, in the Traditional Chinese sense, anyway. Not anything that would pass as real medicine in America...

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The original post:

Excerpt from "The Book of Five Rings", by Miyamoto Musashi (the Thomas Cleary transation)

Section title: The Fire Scroll

Subsection Title: Infection

"There is infection in everything. Even sleepiness can be infectious. There is even the infection of a time.

"In large-scale military science, when adversaries are excited and evidently are in a hurry to act, you behave as though you are completely unfazed, giving the appearance of being thoroughly relaxed and at ease. Do this, and adversaries themselves are influenced by this mood, becoming less enthusiastic.

"When you think opponents have caught that mood, you empty your own mind and act quickly and firmly, thus to gain the winning advantage.

"In individual martial arts as well, it is essential to be relaxed in body and mind, notice the moment an opponent slackens, and quickly take the initiative to win.

"There is also something called "entrancing" that is similar to infection. One entrancing mood is boredom. Another is restlessness. Another is faintheartedness. This should be worked out thoroughly"...

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Let's start a new comment tree... (Even if the only one, who posts, is me.)

Original Post title to /r/nutrition:

Why are the recommended daily values of Na+ and K+ so skewed from the recommended blood levels?

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[main post body:]

Following the recommended daily values, (based on various product labels, about half and half, times-or-divided-by two-ish), I actually found myself almost dead of a sodium deficiency.

Then, after being revived with a Natreous Chloride I. V. (they won't give you any oral sodium in an American hospital except for some in paper/plastic/foil packets that is likely laced with silicoaluminate), I again ran into this same problem. All from following some apparently wrong, Recommended Daily Allowances.

Do these values assume that you also get lots and lots of sodium from a typical, sodium-heavy, potassium-deficient, American diet?

My apologies if some of this information is incorrect--only a lay-nutritionist here.

In the mean time, I've found a compromise between these two completely mis-matching ratios, of Recommended Daily Intakes, and recommended healthy blood concentrations, that at least seems to not be killing me, which is a good start. :) :)

Waaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh!?!?

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original post

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P.S. Not sure if the link works anymore--the post was removed from /r/nutrition --probably because of its controversiality.

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Edit: And here's some other wondering into some likewise questionable 'scientifically-based' nutritional recommendations. (And also real-life- experience- based.)

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Edit: And some more in-depth side-story.

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Edit: Aaaaand, see as well the not- removed, / not CENSORED re-post of this question, to /r/nutrition again... which was, (finally,) answered, there, after many meandering but not-yet-light-or-water-reaching growths of discussion-comment-tree... by none other than.. /U/JUSTONIUM OP. (Presumably in redditor-cat-ion form, in solution with hydrogen phosphate, bicarbonate, or chloride. (Prob'ly mostly chloride; but actually, all four, since dissociated ions don't have assigned partners.))

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Edit: TL;DR essentials so you don't die: if you are fasting, don't follow the recommended daily values which are meant for people who are perpetually eating; instead take much more sodium than potassium. Otherwise, you should be fine.

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TTL;DR:

Feasting?

Needs more potassium.

Fasting?

Needs more sodium.

(PCMIIM.) <3

In a mnemonic camp, when one says that the alcohol^(1) is flowing,
'tis not it, that the one is the drinking, but rather,
teas^(2), soups^(3), and sometimes, hey! stews^(4)! cooked upon stoves into the which, the alcohol is pouring.^(5)

For, among these merry fellows, it is common sense,
(as well as knowledge),
that alcohol is poison^(56).

(And, to anyone, it, caught a'drinking,
say, hey! may as well go breathe in the dung gas^(8)!)

-2020/01/02 day

![Written in direct follow-up to a sudden rainstorm that--bless Allah--likely saved my life, after an experiment in fighting hunger by starving myself of water reached, (and without hardly any buffer of warning), towards the end of day-two, and immediately following a suddenly no-longer dark-brownish-yellow-, but tinted-bloody-red-, pee, a sudden, terrible aching feeling in my kidneys. (Which felt so debilitating, that I would maybe not have otherwise been able to safely make the trip to rehydrate, from the closest recalled source of clean pure water, without further pushing them, on the way, towards irreparable damage, and perhaps permanent failure.) (Apparently, my hunger was stronger, even, than what should have been a life-preserving craving for pure water. (And also, I thought I wasn't yet in kidney-danger-range, because my mouth was still producing saliva, and my eyes still secreting tear-water. But apparently my kidneys are no longer as strong as they used to be, as when I was only in grade three. (Of American public school.) (And was once starved of water well past that point, by an obstinately hall-pass-refusing teacher.)))]!< [<--NSFL]

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Dedicated
in part,
to an Uncle John,
who recently died
after a life-long slow-poisoning by alcohol^(B),
that was finally concluded
in part
by a nasty case of a Corona Virus^(A).
(And who,
now,
I will never have a chance,
as an adult***^(17)***,
to meet.)

- June 9th

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Footnotes:

1. In fact, a much more common saying, of a time of rejoicing, peaceful celebration, is simply that the water is flowing.
2. Primarily flavor-and-aroma- based—ginger is the core ingredient of many a good, satiating hot tea.
3. As well as often being ginger-based, soups are distinguished from teas by the additional presence(s) of animal broths and/or at the least, animal salts. (Which, after being purified of toxins present in dead animal flesh^(9, 10), contain a much more balanced mix of the five essential macro-electrolytes^(22), than ocean salts^(37).)
4. Could contain anything.
5. Thus, another common saying, particularly among a mobile band of travelers, is that the oil is flowing, oil^(6) being, amongst travelers, a preferred fuel to alcohol, due to its lighter weight.
6. (As well as, at least if it is an edible oil, having the dual potential use as a food for the body, in addition to and/or as a fuel for a stove^(7).)
7. Thus, one common word for alcohol translates roughly as 'volatile stove-food'; as well as perhaps more closely, (as well as still quite roughly), as 'metaphorically-near gaseous, heat-creating-tool- bound consumable-resource'.
8. Also commonly used for cooking.
9. (Or blood.)
10. As well as, in times of shortage, sometimes, from animal^(11) urine^(13).
11. Human, or otherwise^(12).
12. For, when times are demanding, urine can even be collected, from pee-pot- trained, semi-tamed, cats, dogs, pigs, and other urination-conscious non-human animals.
13. Which, in an emergency, can be consumed by a salt-starved human in its raw, un-purified^(20), (though at least, preferably still somewhat fresh^(16)...) form.^(14)
14. Thus, what is to one human, toxic waste, due to its high content of metabolic wastes such as ammonia, is, to another, an elixir of life, the marginal benefits of its salt contents far outweighing the additional load, of bearing and then re-filtering, its water-borne content, in filterable toxins.^(15)
15. However, since naive and underprepared, would be considered, (s)he, who travels far, without plenty of purified animal salts to spare, such an emergency as this, is, indeed, quite rare.
16. For if, fresh, kept, it is not, then it may accumulate, in even more toxins than already present; for one instance, more ammonia, and... depending upon what the donor was priorly consuming^(25)... alchohol^(21).^(19)
17. At least, as what passes for "adult", here in America^(18)...
18. A land in which, the common expectation, is to continue to use one's birth-time- given, child-hood name, all the way through, into "adult-hood", and even until and through death. (The old human tradition, of accepting a new, adult name, during a proper ceremony of initiation into maturity, having been long ago abandoned, and forgotten.)
19. Both of which, can be safely removed, by boiling.
20. Boiled; as well as, (usually), chemically treated, and/or, then filtered.
21. Technically-spcifically, the drug/toxin, ethanol.
22. (Natrium, kalium, magnesium, and calcium; also, chloride^(23).)^(24)
23. Technically, bicarbonate is not an essential electrolyte, its balance with chloride being independently operable without intake of any further resource by the body's natural mechanism for maintenance and regulation of it's acid/alkaline balance. (Though, that's not to say, that maintaining a proper acid/base balance in a diet deficient in bicarbonate, carbonate, or otherwise alkali equivalents does not also require some additional allocation of energy.) (And as for hydroxide and its acid-pair, hydronium, these two water-derived base/acid catalytic correlaries, are perhaps better known, as essential micro-electrolytes.)
24. And as for mono- and di- hydrogen- phosphate, their classification within the concept of 'electrolytes' is perhaps debatable. (As is, likewise, for sulfates—even nitrates.)
25. (For one instance, the popular socially-lubricative drug/food^(26, C) substance, fructose^(34).)
26. (For, the drug-substance^(28) fructose, can also be digested and metabolized, albeit not as straightforwardly as the human blood-sugar, glucose^(27).)
27. (Technically-specifically, d-glucose, or dextrose.)
28. For, yes, to the highly sensitive Mnemonite physiology, (which is kept so by lifestyles filled with lots of exercise, and salts^(29, 30)), fructose, when consumed in copious quantity, is, indeed, quite symptomatic enough, to warrant its common classification as a drug. (As well as a food.)^(42)
29. And sometimes, little else.^(32)
30. As well as, even among currently-living-as-male- gendered travelers, [who generally need to eat a fair amount,] yet still quite clean, of chemicals that behave as toxins^(31) and/or drugs^(31).
31. For one instance, alcohol, which behaves as both!
32. Perhaps most notably, during some of the more critical parts of a male-to-female gender-flip.^(33)
33. (Or, perhaps even more notably, during regular periods of fasting done by adults of any gender, the motive often being the restoration or maintenance of health, and/or the reclaimation of stillness and purity of outer vision in the pursuit of a spiritual vision-quest, and/or, sometimes, even for preparation for battle during a time of war.)
34. Commonly found in many types of plant-blood^(40, 41), and most popularly consumed as a syrup, and/or even brewed into a tea-syrup.^(35)
35. And, is also sometimes consumed unwillingly, in time-and-region's, where pure water be scarce.^(36)
36. As is, likewise, earth-urine^(38), in regions of near-sea-level altitude.
37. Or, likewise, most inland-sea salts, and rock salts, too.
38. Which, like human-urine, can also be consumed in emergency as a means of replenishing one's stapular salts, though, unlike human urine, not all of its toxins may be so easily re-filterable^(39).
39. (For, all of the toxins present in human urine, were already filtered once (and so, can be again).)
40. As well as also being present in the juices of many fruits—for instance, grapes^(41).
41. (And also, apples.)
42. And thus, another common saying, {of a time of particularly exhuberant celebration}^(43), is that the plant-blood-syrup is flowing.^(44)
43. Or, far more common, of a coming-together of some of the more distant clans, between which a more sobre raport has not been hitherto withstanding.
44. (Or, if the fructose has been dried and crystalized, even that the plant-sugar is flowing.^(45))
45. (And yes, another saying, of a time of (albeit, perhaps less peaceful^(58)) (relative) plenty, is that the animal-sugar (-tu) is flowing.^(46))
46. (Or, lacking the facilities to produce a more pure animal-sugar, often that the honey-water is flowing.)^(47)
47. And thus, another saying, of a more peaceful type of (usually wintertime), gathering, is that the glucose^(49, 53) and/or glycerol^(48, 54), and/or even glucose-and-glycerol -containing drinks, and/or syrups,^(52) are flowing.^(55)
48. Also commonly known by the related hypernymnic name, "glycerin".
49. Or, more generally, even (oligo-)(di-)^(51)(mono-)glucose.^(50)
50. Also commonly known as "maltodextrin".
51. Also known as maltose. (Is, di-glucose.)
52. (And in general, animal-blood-sugar -tu syrups.)
53. Used in carbohydrate metabolism.
54. A common intermediate in carbohydrate metabolism, and centrally essential, in the metabolism of fat.
55. Or, perhaps more accurately translated, trickling. (Since, these pure energy-fluids are typically only consumed in quantity- and rate- limited moderation.)
56. And thus, is normally not consumed at all, except in exceptional medical circumstance^(57).
57. (When its properties as a drug and/or medication, outweigh its toxic and even long-term-ly affective properties as both a short-term-acting toxin, as well as, yes, also a short-, and long-, term acting, poison.)
58. (The Mnemonites being opportunistically- preferential vegetarians—even vegans.)

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Appendix A:

(Which,
after one-too-many,
a Corona Light,
he no longer had,
the health, to fight.)

Appendix B:

And possibly,
in part,
as well,
(slowly poisoned)
by a certain somewhat-toxic light metal,
which when consumed repeatedly,
bio-accumulates--
and is known,
among the United States,
as aluminum.
(As well as,
(is known)
within the United Kingdom,
as alu-min-ium.)

Appendix C:

Intriguingly,
the fructose molecule,
when in monomer- ring-form,
has one branch structure,
which itself wiggles,
as the fructopyranose molecule vibrates between its sub-isomeric alpha- and beta- forms.

(In fact,
this knowledge was channeled/amplified within the author's visuo-spatial sketchpad,
during a drug-facilitated inter-fast vision,
facilitated quite meta-ly,
by the ingestion of a small quantity of this very same drug
—fructose.
Almost as if the drug was communicating this knowledge upward-fractally,
in a manner similarly to as is known by some peoples
(but not directly-personally to me)
to be done quite often,
by some other possibly semi-conscious plant-biomolecules,
including:
mescaline,
and monoamine-oxidase-inhibitor- transportationally-facilitated- dimethyl-tryptamine,
and even, nicotine.

(And this knowledge was also subsequently verified using modern chemical archive data.))

And, lo, and behold,
this wiggly off-branch of the molecule,
fructo(fura)(pyra)nose,
is identical in structure,
to the alcohol molecule,
ethanol.

Could this wiggly ethanol-arm* perhaps account,
for some*** of fructose's similar, but less toxic**, activity,
when it acts as a drug in a semi-food-withdrawn human?
(For whom, as well as frutose,
also acts (<--passive voice)
as a drug,
(or, technically, as drug,)
many a solid food.)

2020/08/31/mid-mid-day
(incidentally, right after having imbibed in some solid food,
and then having suffered the consequences of that sort of food-ahol-ic addiction:
the bulimic run-away**** and then only too late****, un-run****,
food-ahol-ism,
that would likely befall many a counterfactually hypothetical mnemonite ambassador,
to these English alchoholic-language-speaking and toxic food -a growing-and-eating lands)

* A property, perhaps also responsible, for fructose and its polysaccharides' propensity to produce irritative effects, on the stomach and gut lining.

** For one thing, fructose metabolism, unlike the metabolism of free ethanol, does not produce in any significant quantity the muchly toxic ethanol break-down product acetaldehyde. (And in fact, some of the manageable quantities of acetaldehyde produced from pyruvate in the metabolism of fructose and other monosaccharides, are even converted to, free ethanol.)

*** Though not including,
ethanol's particular phospholipid-altering effect,
when it is incorporated in substitute of ethanolamine,
to form,
from a phosphatidylcholine,
not a nerve-tissue- abundant
phosphatidylethanolamine,
but instead,
an amine-group-handle lacking
phosphatidylethanol.

**** See also Appendix B (and E, and D) of this post about the energy-mechanics of eating.

like this project looks super cool, but is this sub dead?

Original title: "It's "You don't have any tick."

No, *ahem*, actually, "you don't have no tick" is perfectly correct Black American English; the word "no" here is actually a polyseme to your traditional monosemic negative marker, "no", and is being used here as a 'negative article', the negative form being used in agreement with the (verbal) negative marker "don't".

(White American English has no negative articles.)^(1, 2)

- dedicated to a black trans man,
who showed me more care and love than my
white cis male father was ever capable of giving,
blessings to both of their (albeit quite different)
beautiful, persecuted hearts.

- the Raven Cliffs Wilderness, <-- where
a fleeing homeless trans female, <-- who
Friday evening, September twenty-seventh, the year twenty-nineteen in-the-name-of-our-lord <--when

Footnotes:

1. (W.A.E.: White American English doesn't have any negative articles.)
2. (B.A.E.: White American English don't^(3) have no negative articles.)
3. B.A.E. lacking the mostly-useless^(4) subject-discriminatory verbal analog "doesn't", which, together along with its more-efficiently-pronounced pair "don't", segregates the subjects of negative statements into third person singular, and everything else. (The one exception being the singular, gender-less form of the polysemic pronoun, "they".)
4. Especially useless in a subject-first language such as English.

My apologies for any incorrect or otherwise wrong linguistic terminology. I am only a lay-linguist.

Previously, the Eight Elements have been described as being factored into a branching hierarchy of the three binary qualities of being...

1. Wet/Dry,

2. Hot/Cold, and

3. Loose/Tight.

(See previous post: The Eight Chi revisited, with Alchemical Terminology for a full description.)

As well as providing an extremely useful visuo-mnemonic foundation for visually-to-auditorally synesthetically 'sowing' the Mneumonese language into the visual memory (see previous post: The Eight Elements revisited, in Alchemical Light), this hierarchical break-down has additionally been useful for sub-categorizing several groups of lexemes, for instance, the eight conjunctions.

(The agreeing conjunctions being considered Wet, and the disagreeing conjunctions being considered Dry;

the indirect conjunctions being considered Hot, and the direct conjunctions being considered Cold;

and, the proximal conjunctions being considered Tight, and the distal conjunctions being considered Loose.)

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Let us now re-use this framework once again to represent eight abstract topological forms of obstruction/containment...

Corresponding to Dryness/Wetness, we can assign the concepts of being 'open', or 'closed';

corresponding to Heat/Cold, we can assign the idea of the contained substance or fluid being in motion/'flowing', or locked/'still';

and, corresponding to Loose/Tight, we can assign the distinction between an outer container, and some inner contents.

Let us now walk through them in detail...

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Starting with closed forms of containment,

if the contents are flowing, then we can have a pipe or tube, and the stream of material flowing thither-through,

and if the contents are held still, then we can have a hollow vessel, and the bulk of whatever is contained there-in.

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And now, in the case of open forms of containment,

flowing contents can perhaps be visualized as a stream of water flowing through a canyon or gorge,

and still contents as the liquid interface locked between two parallel sheets of solid material.

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(See reference table below:)

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And finally, notice that these eight topological forms of 'obstruction/containment' can additionally fill the more general roles of simple topological forms, arrived at by simply dropping the movement/containment aspects of these ideas and preserving only the (relative) shapes:

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And post-finally, the particularly astute and creative reader may additionally notice that each of the eight topological forms of obstruction/containment can also serve as a secondary, alternative spatial analogy for thinking about the otherwise obtusely abstract strong grammatical moods. (In fact, in a subsequent post, another bridge will also be revealed between the relative locations and these topological forms (which also can be used to derive eight relative forms), via another lexeme octet of structural roles.)

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Starting with closed, flow-related stuff:

The contents of a pipe have to proceed exactly according to the path prescribed by the pipe's shape,

and a pipe or tube has the capability of conveying some contained-and-conveyed fluid.

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Or open-ly now,

The contents flowing along the path of an open channel lack the ability to penetrate underneath the surface through which the channel leads

while the surface can (but doesn't have to) allow via holes or inlets, the channeled substance to, itself, enter.

(And, symmetrically-vertically-oppositely, a flow of bubbles upwards along the underside of a concave, sloped (underwater) ceiling can't on-their-own penetrate there-through,

unless the surface itself does (but maybe currently isn't (doing)) open an intake valve of some form and thus allow the bubbles a straighter path upward.)

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Next, onward to closed, non-flowing stuff,

the contents of a container need the presence of their container in order to stay there, stably still,

and their holding container doesn't need them to not be there... (and is thus a willing host(ess)).

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And lastly openly again,

material at the interface between two separate, parallel regions can function as a gate which is unwilling to let certain things through-it pass,

and things on either side of this boundary may be willing, but none-the-less abstain, from transitioning thrither.

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Displayed below is an analogy table juxtaposing all of the concepts covered in this post. (The eight pure emotional moods are related through alchemy, as well as additionally fairly directly with the strong grammatical moods/hard motivators.)

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Previous major post: The eight conjunctions

Next major post: >!The eight topological forms revisited, in historical context!<

Section title: The Fire Scroll

Subsection Title: Infection

"There is infection in everything. Even sleepiness can be infectious. There is even the infection of a time.

"In large-scale military science, when adversaries are excited and evidently are in a hurry to act, you behave as though you are completely unfazed, giving the appearance of being thoroughly relaxed and at ease. Do this, and adversaries themselves are influenced by this mood, becoming less enthusiastic.

"When you think opponents have caught that mood, you empty your own mind and act quickly and firmly, thus to gain the winning advantage.

"In individual martial arts as well, it is essential to be relaxed in body and mind, notice the moment an opponent slackens, and quickly take the initiative to win.

"There is also something called "entrancing" that is similar to infection. One entrancing mood is boredom. Another is restlessness. Another is faintheartedness. This should be worked out thoroughly"...

When one commits the often quite dangerous act of saying something, all too often, what is assumed by the audience is a great deal more than what what was literally said by the speaker. Let's imagine it visually.

Speaker says something. (Let this be a little blob spattered onto the two-dimensional land of things-that-can-be-the-case- space.)

And then, things are assumed from the speaker's statement. (Now, imagine a bigger blob splattered completely over, as well as a good deal further around, our original statement-blob.)

See the problem? Thus, when humans communicate, we find a constant need to reiterate what may or may not have actually been the case, related to what was actually said. Let us now see how the Mnemonites do this using the four indirect conjunctions.

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Let's say that I want to tell you that I slept in close proximity with a friend of the opposite gender last night. Assuming that both me and my friend-of-the-opposite-gender are both sexually mature (as well as as-of-yet still mentally immature), many an audience would jump immediately to the conclusion that something additional occurred as well. Presuming that my statement will likely be taken this way, and desiring to prevent any such assumptions outright, I could say something like...

We slept together... [but] nothing happened!

This use of English's conjunction "but" corresponds precisely with the Mneumonese concept of distal indirect disagreement. (Distal, because we are traveling 'outward' from statement to implication; indirect, because the relationship we are hilighting is one of mere implication (as opposed to direct logical derivation); and disagreement because we are affirming that this particular implication is most certainly not the case!

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And to use its correspondent proximal pair, we could instead say something like...

Nothing happened between us last night! ...[Despite] that we slept in very close proximity to one another.

Now, we have simply switched the order in which the two implicitly connected statements were uttered, and have likewise used the correspondingly opposite member of the distal/proximal pair of Mneumonese conjunctions for expressing indirect disagreement. (Or, another interpretation of the linguistic situation, is that now, our statement is that nothing happened last night, and that the thing-which-would-imply-the-opposite also did, in fact, occur (even though you may have assumed that it hadn't). In this interpretation, the words proximal and distal are perhaps better replaced by the words, precedent, and postcedent.)

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Now, what about when the possibly implied correlary is in fact the case? Rather than just let a (possibly quite true) assumption hang in the air, we might as well come right out and say it outright... Plus, integrity points. :)

Continuing now to the conjunction for expressing distal indirect agreement, we might say that...

We slept together... [and in fact], yes we ended up having sex.

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And finally, switching the order around once again, we could of course also say...

[Person-of-opposite-gender's name] and I had sex last night, [which, you'd naturally expect, given that] we were already sleeping in the same bed.

(Note that liberties have been taken in these examples due to English's very irregular grammar and semantics.)

(And as a final note, notice that the proximally/precedentially indirectly agreeing conjunction can also be used to connect questions to their grounds-for-being-asked, for instance, a question like this:

Did y'all have sex last night? ['Cause], ya slept in the same bed...

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Okay, so those are the four Mneumonese conjunctions used for denying, or affirming, indirect implications.

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Next, on to the four conjunctions used for connecting, via direct implications, between facts.

Returning to our blob-within-bigger-blob visual metaphor, we can now forget about that bigger blob. Now, we are just focused on the blob that is the literal statement. What happens when two statements contradict? One might imagine two blobs intersecting (or even possibly both occupying the same exact spot), with the intersecting region smoking as if by a chemical reaction between two chemically co-reactive substances...

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Say that an affirmation has just been stated that you and [your close friend-of-the-opposite-gender's name] had sex last night, and you want to dispute this claim. You might open such a disputing claim to an alternate (and hopefully true!) situation by saying something like this...

[Well, actually ], there was no physical touch involved, so that doesn't count as sex.

This type of conjunctive expression, according to the Mnemonic Grammarians, is an instance of distal direct disagreement (as well as also being a discourse particle, since what are being conjuncted are two ideas uttered by different speakers); distal, because we are connecting from an already-stated position to a secondary (sorry, they already said it first) alternative position, and direct because our new claim directly partially or wholly contradicts the original claim, not by mere implication, but by very definition; one cannot both have sex and not have sex. ... Can they?

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And now, in any ensuing argument, the proximal pair would be used by any parties making further arguments as to why, for instance, even a touch-less sexual encounter may indeed still count as sex. So for example, the original offender might reply:

[But quite to the contrary], even a touch-less exchange of sexual energies still counts as sex to me.

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This distal/proximal distinction doesn't appear to have an explicit linguistic mechanism for expressing in English, but is never-the-less quite often present. One can think of the proximal version of facts as 'who has the upper hand' in the perceptions of whatever audience is listening; this may even switch places at some point within the debate. (And, if there comes a point when there truly is a neutral holding-off between accepting either story, then one can also combine these two asymmetric conjunctions into one symmetric one via a semantic interfix^(1)).

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Okay, finally, now on to direct agreement. Here, we now have two overlapping, and completely agreeing, blobs.

Say your friend says something, and^(2) [you agree,]^(2) but^(2) you [also]^(2) think it could have been said more simply, and would like to contribute your synopsis. You might open such a statement like this...

[So basically], [insert TL;DR here].

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And then, if something you've said was perhaps quite brief, and needs some elaboration, you might tail it with a statement like this:

[Or in other words], [insert parenthesis here].

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And super-finally, one can again concatenate these two conjunctions together via sense-set intersection to arrive at the symmetric version for co-connecting simple paraphrasing.

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So there you have it, the eight conjunctions of Mneumonese! (Used in some somewhat culturally stretched situations; two young adult Mnemonites friends of opposite gender would be much less likely to have sex just because they are sharing a sleeping space than us perverted Americans.)

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Below is a table showing the appropriate metaphorical-alchemical vowelian sub-morpheme used for constructing each of these eight conjunctions, with an additional inclusion of some helpful 'noun-ified' argument labels, as well as also the somewhat-semantically-nearby crystal of eight strong grammatical moods and their in-turn metaphorically-essentially-nearby relative locations.

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Footnotes:

1. Sense-set intersection. (-/m/-) (-/ŋ/-)

2. Edit; previously transcribed as just: "and/but". English doesn't appear to have this extremely useful conjunction... Too bad "and" is suuuuch a polyseme.

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Previous major post: The Ten Vowels

Next major post: The eight topological forms, and (another) Alchemical Factorization of the Eight Elements

So the eight regular vowels for filling up in particular metaphorical-alchemical domain of a lexeme were already covered in this very early Contemporary Mneumonese Four era post.

(Here is the table of English mnemonics for learning them, taken directly from that post and additionally labeled with corresponding emotional and alchemical names:)

One added gimmick is that, for English speakers, the quite-hard to pronounce sound /y/ can be replaced by the much-more-familiar sound /ʊ/, as in look!

Now, for the remaining two vowels.

Just as in Mneumonese 3, Mneumonese 4 has the very same schwa (/ə/) for filling in lexemes with a 'wildcard' 'unspecified' metaphoric sememe. So, for instance, instead of saying some particular color (each of which are inflected by unique vowelian sememes), one could instead create a schwa-filled lexeme for 'any color'.

And finally, to step out of this system altogether, and say the word for an entire eight-category (for instance, the word, 'color') one would instead insert the rhotacized version of schwa: /ɚ/. (Pronounced like the English R sound (/ɹ/), but used between consonants as a vowel, as in the English emotion word "mirth" (/mɚθ/).

(Note also that these final two sound also happen to be the single discriminating difference between what are arguably the two most taboo words of the entire English language: the two 'N words, /nɪgɚ/^(1), and /nɪgə/^(2).)

1. (Primarily used in White American English.)

2. (Primarily used in Black American English.)

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Previous major post: The eight behavioral roles, revisited in Social Context

Next major post: The eight conjunctions

In a previous post, the eight behavioral roles were elucidated as a sort of intermediary between causality and space.

Let us now revisit them, again following their spatial analogy, but now in the context of the Social Organism.

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Starting with the four vertically-defined spatial lexemes, let us examine the flow of production from raw materials into useful assets...

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Bottom of the community's system of cooperative production of its assets, are [original (donor) sources] of

(primary) [resources (/beginnings)], which in turn lie below their

successively higher [products (/ends)], which in turn serve as secondary (or tertiary, quaternary, or whatever)^(1), [resources] for further transformative processes up along the production chain^(2), until,

top of the whole network of production^(3), are the [recipient keepers (and distributors)] of the final assets which ultimately empower the entire community to support itself within the greater world-community within which it resides.

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And now onwards to the four distally/proximally- defined spatial lexemes, let us examine the structure of organization of a single productive structure within a community...

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Exterior of some club, guild, agency, or other organization within a community

(whose interior [structure] consists of the various inter-relationships between its own innerly-composing sub-parties^(4)),

are the stable [(passive) functions] which it provides to the surrounding community within which it resides.

And dynamically now,

within some productive organization, is the [operative structure or behavioral mechanism] by which its constituent parties co-operate, and

outside of it is where its asset-ual [actions] are most valued by the outer community within which it has found its niche.

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Below is provided an analogy table linking these two octets of spatial and behavioral lexemes, as well as the also- semantically-near-by octet of definitional lexemes, and as well-well the correspondingly rhyming words for expressing the eight pure emotions.

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Footnotes:

1. Note that each of these 'non-primary' resources also serves as a [source/origin, donor] within some sub- production-chain^(2) of the whole community's production network.
2. Technically, a directed acyclic graph.
3. Or (likewise) at the top of or as a [destination and recipient] of some sub-network of production.
4. "Party" being the hypernym of "organization" and "individual".

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Quite central to the entire Mneumonese language, are what have finally been crystallized down into eight definitional roles.

Let us walk through them, walking along Mneumonese's perhaps by-now-familiar space analogy, which is also very central for organizing a lot of its other most fundamental abstract concepts.

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Let us start with the simple act of reference, which is arguably the most fundamental thing any language does: it names stuff.

Bottom of a name, is some referent thought or idea

(which the name itself is a mere surface of),

and when we name it, we have performed the magical act of conjuring a reference,

which, when spoken out loud as a word, collapses^(0) the referenced stuff into an auditorally-linguistically shared entity.

(Thus, sometimes, it is best to not name something, if that something is felt to be very special or sacred.^(1))

(Using Mneumonese Four's visuo-mnemonic system, this pair of lexemes can be visualized as a vibratory charge built up between clouds, and then the collapse of the charge as a bolt of lightening is released as a spoken word of the sky.^(2))

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Next, let's now consider the slightly more involved act of making a complex reference, for instance referring in bulk to [any] (a non-empty set of) or [every] member of a group or set. Now, the relationship between reference and referent (or referents!) is no longer direct, and can additionally now be one-to-many, as in the case of these two unary operators^(3). Thus, in general, an operation upon some set of referents is being made, which yields a subsequent value that is a function of its operand(s).

Continuing now in our spatial analogy,

Under an operative reference, is a set of operands,

and over the operands is-derived the value of the operation's result, or the operate-ment^(4).

(Using Mneumonese Four's visuo-mnemonic system, this pair of lexemes can be memorized by imagining a fire combining an operand or operands into a rising cloud of sparks.)

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Onwards now away from the vertically defined spacial concepts and on into the proximally/distally oriented ones...

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Corresponding now to the space inside of and outside of a hollow object,

we have the definitional roles of

• [part, component] (all of which exist inside of the space occupied by the thing which they together compose), and
• [whole, gestalt, group] (which consists of and is defined by the presence of all of its parts or members).

(This pair of lexemes can be visualized in Meumonese Four's visuo-mnemonic system by realizing that a cloud, which is composed of^(5) mist, overflows to create rain when it becomes completely saturated.)

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And finally,

corresponding to the exterior face and interior filling composition of some object,

we have the two definitional roles of

• [role, alias], (which refers to some abstracted re-usable or re-current role), and
• [actor, personality] (which refers to the something or someone who is playing it in some particular instance).

(And this final pair of lexemes can be visualized in Mneumonese Four's visuo-mnemonic system by imagining some particular person delivering a momentary strain on some activity you are involved in, as they provide what in fact turns out to be a piece of valuable input which, once it is properly recognized as a message^(6, 6.1), proceeds to resonate right on in to whatever it is that you were being/creating^(7).)

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Below is an analogy table of all of the lexemes covered in this post, with the additional inclusion of the corresponding visuo-mnemonic Elements and rhymatically related emotion words.

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Tang-ential Afterword:

And now for these lexemes' correspondent functions as keywords in Programmatic Mneumonese.

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Used as keywords, the directly referential pair of lexemes [name] and [referent] are used to refer to a Programmatic 'Mneumanese' keyword, and to the underlying Graphical 'Mne(u)manese' object to which it refers (or, if not pre-existant, which it invokes (and then subsequently refers to post-parse)).

Next, the indirectly referential pair of lexemes [operand] and [operatement] are used to refer to the the operands and outputs of data-flow style operators (including those which flow from Mneumanese statements and instructions to their Mne(u)manese parses).

Colder^(8) now, the directly compositional pair of lexemes [alias] and [actor] are used to connect the interfaceable alias of a data structure to the particular implementation(s) that are instantiated to fulfill its necessary function(s) (including those that are encoded in another medium of representation, such as Tang);

And finally, the indirectly compositional pair of lexemes [gestalt whole] and [component] are used to connect any particular implementation of a data structure to its composing parts.

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Footnotes:

0. Or compounds.^(1)

1. The main exception being when the sacred thing named is very strong and redundantly stable, and when the structure of its naming accurately aligns with and is thus capable of resonating with its actual energetic structure.

2. Thus, in Mneumonese, the word for word is lightning.^(2.1)

2.1. Reference to the novella, The Word for World is Forest. So, be careful what you say, or you'll burn it down!!

3. Technically, these two operators are actually still one-to-one, as the 'many operands' are themselves already contained within another bulk reference--the group or set (both of which can themselves also be used as operators (as well as stand-alone containers), combining a list of singular entities into a collection). The entire group or set thus functions as a single-operand wrapper for the multiple underlying operands that are being referenced in bulk by these two (technically unary) logical operators^(3.1).

3.1. Or in this case, technically, logical quantifiers.

4. -ment as in shipment. Operatement--the result yielded by an operation.

5. Note that this form of non-discrete composition of a non-numerically-countable substance would be expressed by appending the qualifier lexeme [substantial] to the definitional lexeme [part, component].

6. Celestine Prophesy reference; every interaction can be thought to contain some useful message, if only it is interpreted properly.

6.1. The role here being that of a messenger.

7. Edit; originally transcribed as working on.

8. In the alchemical sense.

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In a previous post, the eight logical operators of Mneumonese were elucidated in their binary contexts. (Interestingly, only the two negative operators, the singular/boolean negation operator and the bulk complement operator, had any meaningful function in unary contexts, all of the other operators serving chiefly combinatory purposes.)

Furthermore, it was also noted that some of the logical operators bear strong semantic resemblance to some of the correlative prefixes. Observe again the (now antiquated) juxtaposition:

Note particularly the entries for the existential prefix (glossed as [some-]) and the non-existential prefix (glossed as [no-]) and how they already seem to align flawlessly with their corresponding singular/boolean logical operators, each performing an analogous unary operation of "quantitative instantiation" of a member or members (or no members) of a category (with truth value now pertaining to membership in said category).^(0)

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Noting now that the Mneumonese lexicon already contains several other (albeit no longer mandatory) as-of-yet uncrystallized "quantitative instantiators" (which have previously been referred to as articles, and then later as numerical classifiers), let us see if we can crystallize the remaining lot of them as well in this new light.

The full set of these "quantitative instantiators" consists of:

• the three numerical instantiators [one], [one or more], and [two or more]; as well as
• the bulk instantiator, [each], which is used to simultaneously reference every member of a collection^(1).

Merging the three "numerical quantitative instantiators" with the two aforementioned correlative prefixes [some-] and [no-], we find that the numerical instantiator [one or more] merges precisely with the functionally identical duplicate lexeme that is the "correlative prefix" [some-], and arrive at a new set of four numerical quantitative instantiators /"numerical correlative prefixes", with [no-] taking the new role of zero (and thus also functioning as a sort of negative correlary to the bulk instantiator [each], implying instead that for [each] member of a group or set, the containing statement is not the case).

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Analogizing back to the four singular binary operators now...

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Corresponding to singular binary conjunction, whose net truth value depends upon the truth of all of its (minimum of two) operands,

we have the (unary) numerical instantiator [two or more].

(Which instantiates a group whose minimum two composing entities are both members of the category that they were instantiated from.)

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Corresponding next to singular binary non-exclusive disjunction, whose net truth value depends upon the truth of merely at least one of its list of operands,

we have the numerical instantiator [one or more].

(Which instantiates a group whose minimum of one composing entity is a member of the operand category.)

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Corresponding now to singular binary exclusive disjunction, whose net truth value depends upon the truth of exactly one of its operands,

we have the numerical instantiator [(exactly) one].

(Which instantiates a singleton group whose exactly one composing entity is a member of the operand category.)

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And finally, corresponding to negation, whose net truth value depends upon the truth of exactly none of its operands,

we have our new negative numerical instantiator, [no, none].

(Which actually makes simultaneous reference to any^(4.2) member of a category (or every member of a collection), but in the negative.)^(2)

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Here is the full juxtaposition summarized as a table:

QED.

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So that clears the lexical air up quite a bit... Let's see what we have remaining.

We still have:

• the four personal-locative correlative prefixes ([this here by me], [that there by you], [this here between us], and [that over there]) which perhaps belong in their own eight-crystal, augmented into plural versions in likeness of their pronoun correlaries;
• the interrogative correlative prefix [what, which];
• the universal correlative prefix [every];
• the bulk instantiator [each];
• and additionally, the long-overlooked and little-understood lexeme candidate [any], which (as well as the other five already-mentioned quantitative instantiators) dates all the way back to the early days of Mneumonese 1, when it was pulled directly from English to denote the case when one doesn't care which particular member (or members) of a collection or category one is referencing.

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Firstly, notice that the 'correlative prefix' [every-] and the 'bulk quantitative instantiator' [each] are actually already just different labels for the very same operation of simultaneous reference to each and every member of a collection or category. So, these two duplicate entries in the lexicon can simply be merged into one: [each, every].

Notice that we are now left with exactly three instantiative (and unary!) operators which have yet to be assigned ([any]) or reassigned ([every, each], and [what, which]) a Mneumonese 4 vowel.

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Let us now turn to the remaining three bulk logical operators for which there are currently still no unary functions assigned: [common, shared (intersection)], [conglomerate, total (union)], and [critical, unique (reduction via complement-of-intersection)].^(3)

Notice that, if we were to assign them unary behaviors using only Occam's Razor, all three would just perform the very same non-operation or identity operation. But that would be both a waste of three precious lexical slots, as well as entirely boring.

Let us instead see if we can capture the spirit of each of these three binary bulk logical operators in some more inspired unary operations...

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Corresponding first to bulk binary conjunction, which selects only those entities which are members of every collection,

we can assign the (unary) quantitative instantiator [each, every], which makes simultaneous reference to every member of a single collection (as well as any and every hypothetical member of a category).

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Corresponding next to bulk binary non-exclusive disjunction, which selects each entity which is a member of any of the collections,

we can assign the quantitative instantiator [any], which makes arbitrary (and possibly simultaneous) reference to one or more member(s) of a single collection^(4) (as well as some^(4.1) (but not necessarily all) hypothetical member(s) of a category).

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And corresponding finally now to bulk binary exclusive disjunction, which selects only those entities made unique by being a member of exactly one of some critical collection,

we can assign the "place-holding quantitative instantiator" [what, which], which makes hypothetical reference to exactly one^(5) (albeit as-of-yet unknown)^(6) member of the referenced collection (or category).

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And likewise again in table form:

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And finally, here is an analogy table showing how all of the lexemes discussed in this post have settled comfortably back into metaphorically aligned positions in Mneumonese Four's metaphorically-aligned rhyme structure:

Notice that there are now fifteen correlative prefixes, seven^(7) of which are also quantitative instantiators.

... What?^(8) :P

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Footnotes:

0. Thus, to call them merely correlative prefixes is an outdated notion, they also being perfectly capable of instantiating a member of any type of category, not merely those that have been likewise dubiously labeled as "correlative post-fixes".

1. The word "collection" being used here as a hypernym of "group" ^(2.1) and "set" ^(2.2).

1.1. A group being a gestalt composition of entities that are together treated as one single, collective entity.

1.2. A set being merely an abstract, 'order-less list' of entities.

2. Note also that assigning this secondary unary function to an operator which already serves a unary function as a boolean operator does not create any collision, because the new function operates upon categories, which do not have truth values. Thus, we can say that the unary functionality of the singular negative logical operator has been overloaded, with separate functionality assigned for boolean and bulk operands.

3. Note that that one remaining bulk logical operator for which there is already an existing unary function ([lacked, missing (complement)]) yields not a bulk reference, but a category; thus to make simultaneous bulk reference to each individual member of a group or set's complement, one would additionally concatenate on our bulk quantitative instantiator [each, every].

4. Note the subtle difference from the bulk quantitative instantiator [one or more], which instantiates a group of one or more members of a collection or category. Now, what is being instantiated is a bulk reference to each of some one-or-more members of a collection for which the containing statement is the case. The Mneumonese lexeme [any] is thus more specific than the more polysemic English lexeme "any", which can also mean any and every hypothetical member of a category.

4.1. Thus, "some", as opposed to "any" (which would instead be translated to Mneumonese as [every] (hypothetical) member of a category). Oh, the joys and headaches of English polysemy.

4.2. (Any and every.)

5. Notice that this description in fact doesn't match the cases when the answer to one's question actually has a number of greater than one, or none at all...

5.1. And thus, the downgrading of this lexeme's gloss to simply [which].

6. Notice that without this secondary, inspirational-within-inspirational touch, the analogous 'inspired' unary overloading of this operator would just be the very same operation as its corresponding unary singular operator, since a bulk reference to exactly one element is in fact just an ordinary reference.

7. There of course being a hole in the crystal where a corresponding quantitative instantiator for the logical operator [lacked, missing] is lacked/missing...

!8. IN FACT, if we simply shove the unary functions of the two negative operators over to their binary lexical forms (which we can totally do, because the selection of which parity of operation to do is already determined by the number of operands present anyway), then the unary lexical form of the complement operator is freed up as well, allowing us to assign to it the final instantiative function of a 'loose "what"'.!<

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!So, corresponding finally-finally now to !<complementation>!, which selects, within some outer context, !<any and every>! entity which is !<not>! a member of the operand categor(y)(ies) or collection(s),!<

!we can assign a more general place-holding quantitative instantiator,!< [what], >!which shall make hypothetical reference to!< zero or more >!(again as-of-yet unknown)!< member(s) >!of the referenced categor(y)(ies) or collection(s).!<

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!And here is the final updated table of partial pronunciations (the initial consonants of these lexeme-fragments still being as-of-yet unknown):!<

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!Edit; Update:!<

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!(And again, with complete pronunciations, as per Mneumonese 4.2.2:)!<

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Corresponding to the eight causal roles or causatives of Mneumonese (reviewed again in detail here) are eight conditional particles.

In fact, each of the conditional particles shares the very same root lexeme as its corresponding causative, and is obtained by using the corresponding causal lexeme in isolation from the part-of-speech inflector which would otherwise be present when used as a verb^(1) or adposition^(2) or as a correlative postfix^(3).

(And additionally, the causatives' conditional forms also serve as keywords for directing (and containing) flow-control in Programmatic Mneumonese (the instantial conditionals being responsible for providing basic flow-control functionality, and the inferential conditionals being used to catch erroneous behavior so that a higher-authority program can take over and return things to a proper course).)

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Let us now walk through the causitives once more and see how this additional particular extension works.

Starting with the two pairs of instantial causatives...

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Corresponding to direct, surface-level, logical-mechanistic causation between physical events, we have the causative pair of [stimulus, trigger], and [reaction, response]. Used as a conditional particle, [stimulus] (perhaps best glossed as [if, when] in its particle form) serves to mark a clause as a conditional expression upon a possible physical event, which may or may not occur (within some outer context situation). [If or when] it does occur, [then], whatever event or action is marked by its mandatory pair particle [reaction] is then reactionarily expected to occur as well (or in the case of a command, to be enacted as well) in direct response.^(4)

(Re-using once again our eating example, we might say that, [if/when] a hungry person is offered food (<--trigger event), ([then]) they will [probably] accept it and eat it (<--reaction event).)

(In Programmatic Mneumonese, these two particles correspond to the keywords for scheduling trigger-driven (asynchronous) actions, which would then be enacted whenever their corresponding triggering events occur.)

Note that there is no corresponding single lexeme for catching the opposing case when the conditioned-upon trigger event does not occur within the temporal-spatial context in which the conditional statement applies; the corresponding 'otherwise' word is actually a compound construction made by concatenating the [if] lexeme with the logical lexeme [not] ^(5) (and additionally with a(n) (often-ommitted) pronoun for re-referencing the conditional clause). So, instead of saying elsewise, or otherwise, a Mnemonite literally says: "if doesn't-(occur) (that)".

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Corresponding next to deeper-level, emotional-energetic causation around energetic phenomena which underly a situation (represented in Mneumonese by the causative pair of [expectation, propensity] and [realization, fallout]), we condition now not upon the occurrence or lack of occurrence of an event, but instead upon the presence or absence of some property or state of the various entities and their inter-relationships which together compose a very situation. Thus, instead of conditioning upon events, within some context situation, we are now conditioning upon a state which is a defining characteristic of a situation itself.

(Returning again to our hunger example, we might now say that, when a person is offered food (<--context situation), [if-it's-the-case-that] they are hungry (<---state), [then] (<--fallout particle) they will [probably] (<--evidential) accept the offered food into their possession and promptly consume it.

(Notice additionally that we can nest these two types of conditional pairs within a single statement, using the former event-to-event pair to introduce the context situation within which we then condition upon state with our state-to-event pair. So in our hunger example, we might also say that, [if or when] a hungry person is offered food (<--context-providing event), [response-then], [if-it's-the-case-that] they are hungry, [realization-then] they will ([probably]) accept it and eat it.)

(In Programmatic Mneumonese, this second pair of particles function as the keywords for constructing a branch in the flow of execution or enaction of an imperative style (synchronous) program, each of which occurs in the context of some particular state of the program's execution (which may of course also be occurring within the outer context of an asynchronously registered event).)

Note again that there is no corresponding lexeme for catching the opposing case when a conditioned-upon state is absent; such an 'else' word is likewise another compound construction, created this time by concatening the particle [if-it's-the-case-that] again with the very same logical negation morpheme [not]. (And now, a Mnemonite would literally be saying, "if not (that)".)

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Whew! So those are the four insatantial conditional particles.

Next, to obtain the other four (inferential) conditional particles, all we have to do is alter the type of statement marked by the response statement to be a state, which we are now inferring to be the case.

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Conditioning once more from an event or action, we can now make an inference that, in the event of such an occurrence, such-and-such a property must be true of the context in which it occurs or has occurred.

(So for example, we might say that, [observing] that some people are offering free food, we can [conclude] that ([probably]) there is a surplus of food.

(And in Programmatic Mneumonese, we have the keywords for asserting that, whenever some particular event occurs, some corresponding property holds true. Assertions such as this are common for maintaining the internal correctness of a data structure that might be modified by potentially unknown external processes.)

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Conditioning finally now from a state, to some other state, we are making static inference, saying that one property of a situation implies the simultaneous existence of another property of the same situation. (Or, in the case that we treat the elapsing of time as one destinentially connected temporal-spatial continu-um of agency and agents co-interacting and co-creating reality, we make inference from a [reason, problem] state of reality to the inevitable [goal, solution], be it perhaps not known to all involved parties for certain until it has actually come to fruition.

(And thus, we might now say that, [since] people were offering free food, [it-followed-that] someone to whom food was still considered scarce came to find themselves accepting it and subsequently eating it. Notice how in this example, we are making static inference across time, treating it just like space. This makes the particle forms of this pair of causatives more general than their causal forms, because they can also be used to make inference between totally non-temporal things...

Such as, in the Programmatic Mneumonese case, when we make an assertion that, given some property of a program's current state, some other property of its state must also hold true. Notice the segregation of assertions from commands that is enforced by having a separate but otherwise equivalent pair of branch keywords for each.)

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Here is a summary of all eight particles' functions:

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And finally, below is an analogy table juxtaposing the eight conditional particles with their corresponding causative roles. Also displayed are the emotion words that they rhyme with, and could thus be juxtaposed with in poetry or song for mnemonic and/or aesthetic function.

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Footnotes:

1. -/ɒm/.^(1.1) (This particular suffix is used for the category of verbs expressing a binary relationship, which in this case would be a causal or inferential link between two events or phenomena.)

1.1. Or in Mneumonese 3, -/ʊ/.

2. -/ɒŋ/. (This suffix too marks its operand as expressing a binary relationship, but in this case, only one that has been demoted from the central position taken by the verb of a statement.)

2.1. Or in Mneumonese 3, -/ʊn/. In Mneumonese 4, the -/n/ ending is now used to identify a binary operator, with the previously unary-binary ambiguous operator -/l/ (which in fact dates all the way back to Mneumonese 1) now being specialized to identify only unary operators.

3. Various possible suffixes.

4. At least, with whatever certainty is implied by the evidentiality of the response clause.^(4.1)

4.1. And notice as well that whether we would more likely translate the stimulus particle [if, when] to English as "if", or "when", would depend upon the certainty of occurrence implied by an evidential included in the conditional clause, "when" being used when its certainty of occurrence is very strong, and "if" if the certainty is less.

5. Can you guess which logical operator this lexeme corresponds to? Answer: >!The /e/ operator, which performs the operation of logical negation. Here, we are grabbing any other possible case except for that which was negated.!<

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In a previous post, the Eight Elements were introduced, and analogized to various weather phenomena.

In light of more recent alchemical discoveries, here is a new table of updated names for the Eight Elements:

Some long-time veterans of this sub may notice a very strong resemblance of these Eight visuo-mnemonic Elements to the original (but different!) eight visuo-menmonic vowelian elements of Mneumonese 2, which, along with its likewise visuo-mnemonic consonantal elements, set it aside from its merely topologically-mnemonic tabular predecessor Mneumonese 1 as the first truly visuo-mnemonically oligo-oligo-synthetically visuo-mnemonically -instantiably learnable prototype for a linear, Spoken correlary to the underlying non-linear logical knowledge representation language Mne(u)monese.

The main innovation here with respect to Mneumonese 2's elemental visuo-mnemonic atoms is that, these atoms correspond to both vowels and consonants, with the four Taro(t)ian Elements additionally each having their own alveolarized versions of their correspondonding divided pair of velar (pulling) and bilabial (pushing) consonants. And of course not to mention that they also follow the Eight-crystalline metaphoric structure of Mneumonese Four.

:D :D

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In a previous post, the eight energetic motions or Eight Elements were factored into pairs of either a pulling or pushing form of four basic forms of change: separation, persistence, union, and transformation.

Furthermore, it was additionally observed that each of these forms of change further corresponds to one of the four Alchemical Elements:

Air corresponds to separation,

Earth to persistence,

Fire to union,

and Water to transformation.

Notice how each of these (uppercased) Element names also evoke images of their corresponding (lowercased) concrete substances, which can take anchor in the imagination in a way that is much more visceral than the corresponding abstract names.

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Let us now visualize each of the four basic abstract forms of change using the highly sensory images evoked by each of these substances...

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Fire is a hot plasma. In a fire, substances begin to lose their stability, and break apart into a transient plasmic phase, wherein their parts temporarily co-mingle before re-combining into new forms that are more stable in this great heat. A classic chemical example to imagine here is the combustive union of elemental hydrogen and oxygen into water vapor.

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Liquid water, on the other hand, is cold, yet somehow it none-the-less still facilitates or catalyzes a great many chemical transformations. In fact, in its liquid form, water is very fire-like, in that it is a melting pot of co-mingled charged ions that are constantly separating and re-combining.

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The Mnemonic alchemists have elected to call this property of co-mingled transient parts Wetness. Thus, the Element of Fire is Wet and Hot, and the Element of Water is Wet and Cold.

Let us now observe how a lack of Wetness influences the remaining two forms of Dry change...

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When there is heat, yet no Wetness, we have a situation represented by the chaotic element Air, where change is of a breaking-apart form. One might imagine this Dry Heat as a wind turning the waves of desert sand; rock breaks into smaller and smaller pieces, but does not mend back together.

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And finally when there is neither Wetness nor Heat, we have that type of change which is non-change, the persistent stability of stone. (Notice also that cold and dry are the optimal conditions for preserving otherwise perishable food.)

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Thus we now have four visuo-mnemonic representations of the four Alchemical Elements.

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As a final touch, and following further the sensory-imageristic spirit of this alchemical visualization, we can further divide each of these four Element-images into eight by visualizing each Element as existing in either a tenuous, Tight state of being nearly totally extinguished, lost, or otherwise transformed into another Element; or in a free-flowing, Loose, relaxed state of plenty.

Below is an analogy table juxtaposing this new alchemical factorization with the previous more abstract topological factorization.

Notice how the alchemical classification into Tight and Loose does not align with the topological classification into pulling and pushing. In fact, this mis-alignment suggests another difference between the two alchemical properties of Heat and Cold:

• Hot Elements are most stable when they are pushed or spread Loosely over a large space.
• Cold Elements are most stable when they are pulled together Tightly such that they densely occupy only small regions of space.

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Also known as the eight behavioral correlative postfixes, the eight behavioral roles of Mneumonese serve as a sort of structural instantiation of causality in space, as well as each serving as one of the most fundamental keywords of Programmatic Mneumonese^(0).^(1)

Let us start by reviewing the eight causative or causal-sequential^(2) roles (also known as the causal-sequential correlative postfixes).

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The eight causal-sequential roles can be perhaps most easily understood by breaking them down first into two groups of four, one group being used to represent causal-sequential relationships between instantiated physical or energetic phenomena in the world, and the other group being used to show analogous inferential connections between ideas, which are merely hypothetical representations of the physical world (and/or 'meta'-representations of other ideas).

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Starting with simple physical causation, we have the pair [stimulus, trigger]/[response, reaction]. This pair is used to talk about concrete relationships between physical events.

(For example, a hungry person eating (<--response) because someone offers them free food (<--stimulus).)

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This is in opposition to the other instantial causative pair [expectation, propensity]/[realization, fallout], which is used to draw causal-sequential relationships around... energetic^(3) events, or around physical events that are understood as being mere surface realizations of a deeper underlying energetic process. Or, basically, just around any event that is inseperable from the consciousness of the person/people (or even thing(s)/stuff!) involved in bringing it about.

(So, again using the eating example, we could also say that someone ate (<--realization) because they were strongly-attracting food (<--propensity), and that somehow or another, food was bound to find them, be it via someone offering it, or by some other surface physical cause. What is emphasized in this example is the underlying energetic attractive causation which runs deeper than surface physical events.)^(4)

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Moving on now to causal-sequential relationships within the scope of ideas...

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In the scope of mere hypothetical events, simple surface-level causative inference is made from a [premise] to a [conclusion].

(So for example we can say (hypothetically) that if someone who is very hungry is offered food (<--premise), a very likely outcome will be that they will accept it and eat it (<--conclusion).)

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And finally, when inference (as opposed to merely action) is inseparable from the very consciousness that is involved in making it and bringing it about,^(5) we have that type of inference that is woven directly within and through the very conscious agency/agent(s) and other worldly elements involved: planning^(6). Here, the ideas that the inference acts upon are literally instantiated in the world,^(5.1) and so both inference and action align, in one unified stream flowing from [reason, cause, motivation], to [goal, purpose, destination].

(And now again in the eating example, one who is very hungry (<--reason) may plan (consciously or unconsciously) to acquire food (<--goal).

Note as well that a [goal] might also itself be another [reason] for satisfying some secondary [goal], the satisfaction of which is required in order to achieve the original goal.

(So, continuing in our eating example, the [goal] of acquiring food could also then be a subsequent^(7) [reason] for traveling to a location containing a food-bearing plant (<--secondary goal).)^(7.1)

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Okay, so those are the eight causative roles.

Now without further ado, let us walk into the behavioral roles^(8)...

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Corresponding to the logical-mechanistic surface-level causative pair of [stimulus] and [response], we have the behavioral pair of:

• [donor, previous] (some entity which relinquishes^(8.1) an enduring relationship with some other entity), and
• [recipient, next] (some other entity which in direct response, gains^(8.2) the transferred relationship).

In Programmatic Mneumonese^(1), this corresponds to the transfer of execution or enaction from one instruction or action to the next. (So, one could say that, when an instruction has been finished being enacted, control is then passed over to the next instruction, serving as the stimulus for that next instruction to in turn begin being enacted.)

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Next, corresponding to the emotional-energetic deeper-level causative pair of [expectation] and [realization], we have the behavioral pair of:

• [beginning, setup] (the original state of circumstances in the relevant proximity of some action or event (which is destroyed^(8.3) by the change)^(9)), and
• [end, result] (the resultant^(8.4) state of circumstances after the action or event has reached completion).

In Programmatic Mneumonese^(1), these correspond to the initial and final states of whatever scope of data structure(s) was/were acted upon by an enacted instruction.

Notice how the former pair focus only on the surface level of progression from one action to the next, while the latter pair focus on the underlying total change brought about by each action. (And in the programmatic case, the surface state of the program, versus the deeper state of the data.)

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Next, corresponding to logical-mechanistic, surface-level inference ([premise]/[conclusion]), we have the behavioral pair of:

• [structure] (some persistently existing entity), and
• [function] (which such an entity can passively fulfill without undergoing major alteration to its structure).

The Programmatic Mneumonese correlary^(1) to these concepts is a function or operator, which is itself a static logical structure made up of other inter-nested operators, and each instantiation of which^(8.5) serves the passive function of yielding the correct output value whenever such a value is needed, refreshing^(8.6) only those of its internal values which are dependent upon operands whose values have also changed.

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And finally, corresponding to the emotional-energetic, deep-level integrated- inference-and-enaction pair of [reason] and [goal], we have the behavioral pair of:

• [behavior] (some sequence or set^(10) of actions performed within the scope of some structure), and
• [action] (the whole, composite action performed by the entire set^(10) of composing actions.

In Programmatic Mneumonese^(1), these lexemes correspond to the keywords for co-nesting imperative-style instructions. (So, an action^(8.8) is in turn composed of a directed graph of conditionals and component actions^(8.7) which collectively defines its behavior^(8.7).)

Notice again how the former of these two pairs focus on the direct, consistent, functional relationship from a static, transparently-understood structure of (data-flow style) operators and their operands to the value yielded for whatever operands are currently present (alike to an inferential rule), while the latter pair focus instead on the deeply involved relationship to an (imperative-style) action's effects from the effects of its own co-nested composing actions (alike to how a plan is composed of a group of co-nested smaller plans which are all put together in order to satisfy the entire plan's purpose).

QED.

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Finally, notice that, so far, these behavioral roles have been considered in abstraction, independent from any spatial instantiation. Let us now re-visualize them along the already-established temporal-spatial analogy of Mneumonese:

[I]n Mneumonese,

logical-mechanistic, non-deterministic time is thought of as proceeding from bottom to top,

and emotional-energetic, deterministic time is thought of as proceeding from under to over.

Alike to accumulating geological records.

And, logical-mechanistic, rule-based inference is thought of as proceeding from interior to exterior,

and emotional-energetic, intuitive inference is thought of as proceeding from inside to outside.

Alike to a growing organism.

Following this analogy further,

we can visualize a progression of an imperative style program's actions as proceeding from bottom to top,

and its corresponding timeline of states likewise proceeding from under to over.

And continuing again,

we can visualize a data-flow style program as being composed of co-connected and co-nested operators,

whose operands and output values are attached upon the exterior of the co-nested interior structure of operators;

and likewise,

we can visualize an imperative style program as being composed of co-connected and co-nested actions,

whose composing co-nested actions can be visualized as existing inside of a surrounding 'bubble' representing the whole composite action which they together compose.

QED.

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Below is an analogy table displaying both of the analogies just covered in this post, along with the rhyme scheme for fitting each of these three lexeme-octets into the metaphor-based rhyme structure of Mneumonese Four.

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Footnotes:

0. Programmatic Mneumonese is a sub-dialect of the Mneumonese language which can be executed as computer code. For a more detailed break-down, see the Index page of this subreddit.

1. In fact, each of these eight fundamental keywords corresponds transparently withinward to a precisely correspondent structure in the lower-level programming language Tang that Programmatic Mneumonese is itself implemented out of.

2. The word 'sequential' is included in this term because (and especially in the case of the energetic causatives), the idea that one event truly is the cause of another begins to lose meaning when we consider that the progression of time may very well be a deterministic process in which everything that happens was always going to happen, and always will have happened. (In other words, if one imagines time as simply another spatial dimension--a sort of destinential dimension--then all events are simply there, each in particular places in space and time, and causality loses any clear distinction from sequentiality.)

3. Energetic in the sense of conscious energy, or chi.

4. And in the case of the example used in the original causality post, continuing to survive in girlmode^(4.2, 4.1) in a transphobic workplace environment was bound to get me fired eventually, be it via any number of means. I was just too energetically-hot^(4.4) to handle when I came to work like that.

4.1. Or in 'lady-mode'^(4.3), females of course being modal creatures. :P

4.2. For instance, "[...] most of [my] life since [I] 'hatched' three-and-a-half years ago has been spent in hiding while I [have] strived patiently to restore dormant [female] processes to life, and most of that remaining treasured time when [I] have been fully 'out' has been spent lost in a jungle filled with many dangerous animals who want to eat me[.]" (excerpt from Only a Girl)

4.3. For instance, "[...] the magic female alchemy of accepting, conducting, holding, and integrating hot fire into a new coldfire flame". (excerpt from Hunger... [NSFL])

4.4. And as a general rule, anybody who stays too energetically-hot in a workplace for too long is bound to get fired, no matter by what energetic-cause they have become a focal point of social tension. (In my case, it seems to have been the clashing of two simultaneous yet extremely contradicting gender roles: the (white) male gender role imposed upon me by the majority of my associates and customers; and my actual gender.)

5. Notice that there isn't really any such thing as a hypothetical energetic event, since all thoughts are themselves made of energy, and are themselves energetic events. Expectation itself is a very powerful force which in large part literally defines reality. (Or so say the Mnemonite elders.)

5.1. Or, in the mind, the mind being thought of as part of the world.

6. Or more specifically, active or real-time planning. (As opposed to passive or pre-emptive planning, which one would be more likely to talk about using the logical-mechanistic inferentials, or, as we will see in a later post, the conditionals.

7. Literally, sub-sequent, the plan for how to acquire food literally being a composing implementation of the outer plan of simply finding something to eat.

7.1. Note that this subsequent plan could also very well make use of the logical-mechanistic pair of inferentials. When it comes to sub-plans, which often contain quite sufurface-level actions, either type of inferential can be used, with the emotional-energetic inferentials emphasizing the connection to the deeper motivation behind the entire plan, and the logical-mechanistic inferentials merely pointing out possible courses of action.

8. Notice also some analogical similarity to the eight informational motions, which also are quite central to both Spoken/Linear, and Programmatic, Mneumonese.

8.1. Connecting.

8.2. Disconnecting.

8.3. Destruction.

8.4. Creation.

8.5. (Semi-) shallow copies. In this case, the instances are only semi-shallow, since they are duplicate structures, but are still constrained to be exact replicas.

8.6. Updating/refreshing.

8.7. (Semi-) deep copies. Actually, the case is literally the same as that of the 'semi-shallow' instance operators, except in the case of 'anonymous' actions, for instance the sequence of 'undo' actions generated on the fly by the interpreter^(9).

8.8. When a chain of anonymous actions is enacted, each subsequently enacted action is replaced (recoverably) by a corresponding action which would undo what has been done.^(9)

9. Though not without hope of recovery! A wonderful property of Tang is that it is a reversible programming language; as its interpreter enacts a program, it simultaneously builds-in-reverse^(8.8) another program which it can begin enacting at any time in order to undo what the other program has done. Since Programmatic Mneumonese is implemented out of Tang, it also has this same convenient property.

10. Or in general, a partially-ordered set of actions. For more detail, see footnote 2. of The eight logical operators, and the Eight Social Motions re-explored.

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TL;DR:

Shallow change

[transforms] instructions;

Deep change

[transforms] data.

Shallow structure

[guides] action;

Deep structure

[enacts].

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Previously covered were the eight relative quantities, and how they align analogically with the eight relative locations.

Let us now apply these eight relative quantities in social context in order to derive eight forms of relative control.

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Starting with the instantial relative quantities, let us examine some power relationships between and among individuals...

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In a relationship between two individual people, one person may have less control than the other, who likewise has more control.

One example of this sort of power divide among the Mnemonites is in the case of a Mnemonese man and woman between whom an alchemical-romantic bond has been cultivated, the woman typically occupying a role of semi-servitude to the man, who in turn bears the extra responsibility which she^(1) has willingly yielded to him^(1), perhaps most noteworthy being the responsibility of speaking in her^(1) stead.^(2, 5)

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Considering now an entire group of people, someone who has the least control is at the most risk of being ostracised or made into a scapegoat, and someone who has the most control is able to occupy the role of a leader and affect change upon the entire group.

Interestingly, it is not uncommon for a single individual to alternate between both of these opposite roles, if s(he) is set aside by some unique quality which may fluctuate from being perceived as a threat, to as a valuable asset.

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Moving on now to the categorical relative quantities, let us examine some relationships between people's energetic fields of control...

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Starting with the case of protecting or giving aid to someone who is one's own kin...

If someone whom you are trying to take care of is a small energetic burden upon you, then the task of looking after them can fit entirely within your field of control.

And oppositely, it may be the case that you have taken it upon yourself to bear only part of a vast burden that is totally outside of your individual control, and perhaps too great to be shouldered even by any single individual (but may none-the-less be collectively looked after and gardened by a large number of individuals).

(And in between these two extremes, we could observe a situation where a burden is perhaps too big for a single individual to bear, but is successfully born by several cooperating caregivers, for example when several adults are sharing the burden of caring for a single, difficult child.)

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And finally, examining the intersecting and collision between the energetic fields of control of two non-kinship-intermeshingly- separate people or groups...

One can think of the boundary where one's own personal space ends and another's begins as a blurred layer of defenses, the interior of this layer being the minimum allowance of space one can yield to intrusion by the other entity's space before things get too tight to tolerate (one might imagine the inner keep of a multi-tiered castle), and the exterior of this layer being the maximum spread that one's own control may stretch, beyond which contact with the other entity is lost.

Between frenemies, the most comfortable distance would be somewhere in between these two extremes: far enough to not clash, but close enough to share in the togetherness of cooperative friendly contact.

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Displayed below is the same analogy that was covered in the previous post, correlating:

• the relative locations, and
• the relative quantities,

now augmented additionally with:

• the relative quantities applied in the context of control in a social situation, and
• emotions that tend to co-occur with each social situation.

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Footnotes:

1. Note the use of gendered pronouns here. The Mnemonites typically use genderless pronouns; however, they also have gendered (and sexed) pronouns (as well as pronoun declination for a great number of grammatical roles), which are used specifically when it is someone's gender (or their sex) that is being emphasized, as is the case here.
2. Note that this tendency for the female gender to yield control over to the male gender is not at all sexist, the Mnemonites having long ago freed themselves of the illusion that gender is a function of sex^(3); if anything, they are less sexist than we, because everyone is free to choose their own gender role, regardless of their sex.^(4) In fact, it is generally considered quite normal for a young Mnemonite adult to spend a good chunk of their youth living as each of the genders, before finally settling down into the mostly androgynous state of a fully mature adult.
3. For a more in-depth explanation, see footnotes 5. and 6. of: The eight logical operators, and the Eight Social Motions re-explored.
4. Another interesting effect of having gender roles liberated from the biological sexes is that, people no longer being confined to one or the other of them by birth and thus inclined to fight for gender equality, the gender roles have been freed to evolve their separate ways into two quite clearly distinct roles, which any young Mnemonite adult is free to choose between.
5. Liberated of some of the burden of making survival and navigation related decisions and of having to speak when spoken to, Mnemonese women's minds are thus freed up considerably for the occupation of... other things.

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Analogous to the eight relative locations of Mneumonese, are eight relative quantities.

Let us begin by reviewing the eight relative locations...

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The eight relative locations are perhaps best understood by visualizing two separate pictures:

• a surface (for instance, the surface of a body of water, or some broad, horizontal structure such as a roof), and
• a hollow structure (for instance, a hollow container, or a hut or other simple dwelling).

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In the case of a surface,

one can be non-adjacently either under the surface, or over the surface; or,

one can be adjacently either against the surface's bottom, or against/upon the surface's top.

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And in the case of a hollow structure,

one can be non-adjacently either inside of it, or outside of it; or,

one can be adjacently either against its interior, or against its exterior.

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Let us now analogize from this spatial foundation into the domain of quantities...

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Likening the number or amount of something to height in space,

to be below a surface is to have less height than it, and to be above a surface is to have greater or more height.

Zooming in to this picture now and considering a horizontal surface that has some significant thickness to it,

the material at its bottom has the least height, and the material at its top has the greatest or most height.

These make up the four relative instantiated or instantiate quantities.

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Let us abstract now to the four relative un-instantiated or categorical quantities...

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The upper bound of all possible or allowable quantities with respect to some uninstantiated quantity or category of quantities would be the maximum of the category,

and likewise, the lower bound of all possible or allowable quantities would be the minimum of the category.

In the height analogy, these boundaries can be visualized as two separate horizontal planes in space, one above the other.

(And, returning to the hollow structure analogy, one can visualize minimum and maximum sizes (size being a quantity of bulk) as two hollow shapes, one nested inside of the other, just like the shape of a hollow structure's interior is necessarily nested within the shape of its exterior, given that the hollow structure has some finite thickness.)

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And finally, leaving these two extreme boundaries of a category of quantities but still staying relatively nearby,

a quantity that is nearby the minimum allowable quantity is said to be small (there being only a little of it),

and a quantity that is nearby the maximum allowable quantity is said to be large (there being much of it).

In the height analogy, one can now visualize two non-intersecting horizontal regions in space, the lower/lesser height region having its bottom at the plane representing the minimum, and the higher/greater height region having its top at the plane representing the maximum.

(And, in the hollow structure analogy, we would now observe that a relatively small hollow shape (a spectrum of shape-sizes being itself a shape) fits within or inside of a relatively large hollow shape, which is outside of it.)

QED.

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Displayed below is an analogy table depicting the analogy between these eight location and eight quantity lexemes of Mneumonese, with each lexeme written as an English gloss since only their interior vowels are currently known (the prefixing consonants and possible tailing liquids still being undecided).

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key/legend for reading each analogy block:

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And finally, here are the same analogy blocks again, this time with their vowels displayed as well, with each analogous pair of location lexeme and quantity lexeme sharing the same vowel. (And this time the key/legend block of the analogy table is in the center.)

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X-posted to /r/conlangs

The eight logical operators of Mneumonese consist of two analogically correspondent sets of four operators each, which I'll tentatively call:

• the four singular operators, and,
• the four bulk operators.

The four 'singular' operators operate upon singular entities that can be assigned a binary truth value, including:

• instructions (which can be either performed, or not performed), and
• logical propositions, or statements (which can either be true, or false);

Correspondently, the four 'bulk' operators perform analogically equivalent bulk operations upon more complex entities, such as:

• sets or groups of entities,
• categories of entity, and
• regions in space.

Here are both groups of four logical operators juxtaposed side-by-side for reference:

(Note that the common "and" operation that we use in English to combine individual entities into a group would be done by a Mneumonese bulk operator, since a person or object does not have a truth value. So, such a construction as "you and me" would be formed by applying the (disjunctive) bulk union operator upon the two one-element groups each containing you, and me. If we did use the singular (con-junctive!) 'and' operator, we would instead be combining the truth values of whatever statement that would now be true of both you, and of me, independently.)

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Let us now walk through each of these four pairs of singular/bulk operators one by one, starting with the two conjunctive operators...

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Starting in the domain of instructions,

one can be told that one needs to do both^(1) X and^(1) Y;

or, more generally, to do all of a list or set of instructions^(2).

(And therefore the entire composite instruction will not have been completed until one has done both, or, more generally, each-and-every-one-of them.)

Likewise, operating now upon statements, one may observe that, within some situation, both X and Y are true.

(Thus making the whole composite statement "X and Y" true as well.)

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Moving outwards now to sets of entities,

we arrive at the intersection operation, which,

when applied upon two or more sets of entities,

yields a set which contains only those entities which are members of each and every oper-and^(3) set.

And likewise, abstracting over to the domain of categories,

the intersection operation yields the category representing only any entity that is a type of each and every operand category.

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Okay, so that's one pair of logical operators covered... Onwards now to the two dis -junctive operators...

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Operating again upon instructions,

the requirement that every instruction in a list or set need be done can be dropped,

and instead it may be merely specified that some instruction(s) need be done, and that it doesn't matter which.

(And, it doesn't matter if more than one of them are done, too; one just needs to do at least one of them.)

And likewise, operating upon statements,

saying of a situation that "X and/or Y and/or Z" implies merely that at least one of these statements could be true, rather than all of them in the case of the "and" operator.

(Another way of thinking about this is that each additional statement one 'and/or's together is like throwing another linguistic dart at a target one is trying to label, and one's entire statement is correct so long as at least one dart has hit its mark.)

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Stepping outwards again into the domain of sets,

we arrive at the union operation, which,

when applied upon two or more sets,

yields a set which contains all entities which are members of any of the operand sets.

(Or in other words, the set which contains every entity that is in at least one of the operand sets.)

And likewise upon categories,

the union operation yields the category to whose membership is earned merely by being a member of any of the operand categories.

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Starting to see a pattern? Now let's see if we can penetrate to the two exclusive operators...

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Operating once more in the domain of instructions,

one now specifies that exclusively one of a set of instructions be performed.

(And now it does matter that only one of them be done, and no more.)

And operating likewise upon statements,

saying of a situation that "either X or Y or Z" implies specifically that only one of these statements is true.

(A common example for this kind of statement is when one is describing the location of some entity, which can only be either in one place or in another, but not in both places at once.)

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Now, what would the equivalent exclusive operation yield from a set of sets?

Why, the set of all entities who are members of exactly one of the operand sets!

(Or in other words, the set of all entities who are contained only by exactly one of the operand sets, and thus render that particular operand set critical in producing the value yielded by all of the sets' union.)

And likewise in the case of categories,

this 'special' operator would yield the category of entities who are members of exactly-and-not-more-than-one of the operand categories.

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And finally, on to the negative operators...

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Upon instructions,

one now receives a set of 'no-no' instructions,

or in other words, a list of things-one-must-not-do.

And likewise upon statements,

saying of a situation that "neither X nor Y nor Z" implies that none of these statements are true.

(And therefore all of them are false.)

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And analogizing outwards again to sets,

we arrive at the complement operation, which,

within some context situation,

yields a set containing every element in the set of all entities relevant within that situation,

except for those entities which are members of the operand set or sets.

And finally, in the domain of categories,

and within some context scope,

the complement operator yields the category representing any entity that fits within none of the operand categories.

QED.

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Whew! That was mighty hard to get through using English's highly ambiguous and overlapping equivalents^(4) for these operators. Congratulations if you've made it this far!

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Next, let us walk through the logical operators again within the context of a group of young adult Mnemonese men^(5) and women^(5) having a social gathering...

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Headnotes:

A. Logical Operator.

B. Social Motion.

C. Informational Motion.

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Handnote:

a. and

b. listening, suggesting

c. disconnecting

After the hustle and bustle of arrivals is over,

and everyone has settled into place and begun to adjust to the context of the new situation,

it is first customary for the entire group to observe a long period of silence,

during which the men try to temporarily disconnect**^(c)** from excess worries that they have been carrying with them in the outer context of their lives, and which they can temporarily relinquish without fear within the relative safety of the group.

This frees up their minds to wander together in a state of relative tranquility...

Eventually, after some time has passed, and everyone has had a fair bit of time to fill their thoughts with plenty of new wonderings, there comes an unspoken agreement that it is at last time to begin offering voice to those ideas that may be important or valuable enough to warrant sharing out loud.^(7)

Thus, the social motion of suggesting**^(b)** is now underway.

One at a time, with plenty of silence left in between, every single**^(a)** man has opportunity to voice some idea as a potential candidate for further elaboration and discussion. Also**^(a)** of particular import during this phase, is that each and every idea**^(a)** be considered in full credibility.

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Handnote:

a. and/or, or

b. discussing

c. connecting

Eventually, when every single man has had the opportunity to voice at least one idea,

and/or**^(a)**,

as many ideas have been given hearing as time and energy will allow (at which point there is little room left for silence between each voicing, and the speaking privilege has become quite hot indeed),

it next comes time to start to weed down the air, so as to direct focus onto fewer and fewer ideas as potential candidates for further and further elaboration, synthesis, and refinement.

Thus, the social motion of discussing**^(b)** begins.

During this phase of the gathering, the restriction that only one person may speak at a time is dropped, and focus now moves to building upon and/or**^(a)** finding connections between**^(c)** ideas, and to homning in on fewer and fewer candidates for deeper and more elaborate exploration. Now, it is no longer of import that every voice or idea be heard, but still of import that are-heard as many**^(a)** as possible. As this discussion continues, people begin to move about, and form into groups around particular ideas.

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Handnote:

a. either, or

b. deciding

c. converting

But, alas, this lively discussion cannot continue forever, and eventually there comes a time when side discussions must be wrapped up, and the restriction that only one person may speak at a time be raised once again, for it is now time for the social motion of deciding**^(b)** to begin...

Now, each of the remaining candidate ideas is given its own turn to occupy the whole group's attention**^(c), and then the whole group must somehow or another collectively decide^(b)** upon which select one or several of these hottest ideas should be chosen**^(a)** to take up the remainder of the gathering, so that each can be given another significant period of full and devoted attention of the entire group for further homning into a new saying, song, technique, or other form of knowledge that can be taken away and endure after the gathering has disbanded.

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Handnote:

a. neither, nor

b. celebrating

c. reinforcing

Which leads us into the final social motion of celebrating**^(b), for the duration of which each victor idea is given its own successive mini-holiday, during which it is practiced, examined, used, re-examined, re-used, and reinforced^(c), leaving all of the participating men with something in common that they can continue to hold on to after the celebration winds down and the gathering begins to disband^(a)**.

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But wait... what about the women? Let us now revisit the situation with both genders in mind...

While the men take turns voicing their highdeas, the women are feeling**^(b)** out the new social situation, and... finding**^(b)** stuff.

Then, while the men have interesting and productive discussions, the women are exploring**^(b)** what they have found.

And then, while the men are busy arguing down which ideas are most important to develop, the women are meanwhile exalting**^(b)** very very important stuff.

And then finally, while the men celebrate and reinforce their new tools and knowledge, the women lament**^(b)** what they are soon to lack**^(a)** once more as the group begins to disband.

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Below is an analogy table displaying all of the (rhyming) correspondences just discussed, with the additional inclusion of entries for:

• the emotions most central to each activity; and,
• the correlative prefixes, which, while semantically related to the logical operators, seem to have been crystallized along a different pattern, and are therefore now a strong candidate for further recrystallization.

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Footnotes:

1. Just like Esperanto, Mneumonese uses the same morpheme to prefix a list of conjoined operands as is used to conjoin each subsequent operand.
2. Or in the general case with respect to Programmatic Mneumonese, a partially ordered set of instructions. Programmatic Mneumonese, unlike most most programming languages already in current use, does not have the restriction that instructions can only be written as totally ordered sets, or lists; the order that they are actually executed in is a freedom left to the interpreter. Note that this also leaves open some opportunity for simultaneous execution. Interestingly, many contemporary compiled languages accomplish a similar feat by using automated theorem provers to de-order lists of instructions where they can prove that all possible orderings would yield the same result; however, (and especially since Programmatic Mneumonese is a lively interpreted language), it seems more convenient (and efficient) to me to simply leave to the programmer the freedom to not have to totally specify a largely arbitrary total ordering of execution order in the first place...
3. An operation upon a set of oper-and-s cannot be performed until each and every operand is available.
4. If you can even call them equivalent, the highly polysemic disguises that they be.
5. Note that the terms "men" and "women" here are being used to refer to gender, which is understood by the Mnemonites to be entirely separate from sex, having to do primarily with the sort of energy a person carries with them, and having nothing at all to do with the shape of their genitalia or the type of sex organs that they have. In fact, the only correspondence that the Mnemonites observe between gender and sex is the mere tendency^(6) for the two to align when two people are trying to conceive^(6), as well as for a person of female sex to assume the female gender while (s)he is pregnant or nursing. In fact, it is quite common for both male and female sexed parents to assume the female gender during the entire period that they are occupied by the care of a newly born child.
6. It being of course entirely possible for a male woman to sire a child, be the technique a bit more involved than that typically used by a male man...
7. A similar process is described in The Celestine Prophecy. Called the eighth insight or interpersonal ethic, it's basically just the idea that whoever currently has the idea with the most energy is welcomed voice or audify^(8) their idea.
8. Earthsong reference.

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