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Mapping the Park
If We Can Map The Twists That Play With Copies, Can We Map Copy Natural History Itself?
The Power of Language
This is a sample chapter from a book planned by Oxford University Press called 'Humankind' as part of a series for children that then got binned. This chapter on language was part of a bigger story that I was going to tell on the origins and nature of people, and I was sorry not to have the chance to do the whole work, as it was planned and in the process till the authorities decided the series was not going to work...
- Why is the word, and not the wheel, the most important discovery in human history?
- Where do languages come from?
- What is the source of their power?
Questions from Oxford
Under construction - yep, like the rest of the site.... But - pour s'amuser - check out the subsections, especially the first.
Imagineering
If there is a science of meaning, then it should have a practical side. And if we understand something about both the landscape of the imagination, and the nature of the joke, then we should be able to create new ones. New Jokes. Which is what I mean by imagineering....
CopyCat Park
This section is about a major area in the landscape of the human imagination, and how the logic of that area is twisted by humour, thus revealing its contour lines and general topography... But first a personal note.
The Science of Meaning
Who Am I?
I worship at just one cathedral. And perhaps that seems a bit limiting. But consider this. For this cathedral is a vast and beautiful place, full of amazing stained glass windows telling all manner of stories about the greatest and the smallest, all amid vaulted spaces and pillars composed of every conceivable material known to existence. I particularly like its carvings, which depict all the many fantastic beings one might ever think of, in both this world and the next. And indeed the world after that.
