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^ that podcast is a fantastic intro to the topic in under 45 minutes. I'm planning to do some sort of write-up of it, but that hasn't happened yet. When I do it'll be here:https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1128389341242449920 …

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Tweet-thread for an introduction to Iain McGilchrist's @divided_brain model about the profound difference between how each hemisphere attends to the world! (Note: there's lots of bs about

hemispheres; this new model seems pretty solid and better than a naive idk

model)

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Anyway, while Anna and others might not mean so narrow a thing by "intellect", my concern is the connotation might be strong enough that it creates an attractor for the (many!) ppl who are committed to an intellect-only mode-of-being, even if initial #InterIntellect folks aren't!

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So those are some thoughts on the semantic aspects of why the term "inter-intellect" feels off to me. (The "inter" part is great. Everything is deeply intertwingled.) As I thought about this more I noticed there are also syntactical reasons I find the term weird.pic.twitter.com/2kQFOqqVXq

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Anna uses the term as... a singular noun > "Why you probably belong to an inter-intellect and why this matters" This suggests that I.I. is the name for the community, not someone in it... who is, I guess, an "inter-intellectual"?

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Yet indefinite article "an" suggests that there could be dozens or hundreds of inter-intellects out there. As if it means "a group of people who connect on the internet out of shared (meta)interests." But then "The I.I." (eg @whatstheii) uses "the", implying there's just one!pic.twitter.com/FAi2CNpOkH

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@yashkaf's comment on the original post illustrates this very confusion: (And probably we need terms for both of these things! The rationality community represents a relatively successful precursor to what Anna & other ii folks are trying to do here!) https://medium.com/@yashkaf/my-life-story-is-very-similar-to-annas-i-m-a-double-immigrant-who-finally-ended-up-in-nyc-in-his-e1b5fbc93b85 …pic.twitter.com/GlDUJJUBWd

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Whew, feels good to write that all out. Again, I love the *referent* that Anna is pointing at here. It's me! It's my people! (I'm not at the middle of this cluster but I am in it) I wrote this whole tweetstorm because I'm hoping for a different signifier.pic.twitter.com/hUe0tAi2Ir

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...and I don't have an alternate name idea. In my head, I've been thinking of this cluster as being kind of meta-rational / meta-modern, but I'm guessing that those terms are somehow simultaneously too broad & too narrow for what Anna's pointing at (in different dimensions)

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Might as well collect some information from everyone who's reading this. This is obviously going to be oversimplified but go with your gut answer to both: Are you in this #InterIntellect cluster & what's your sense of that name?

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And of course reply and lmk what your thoughts are on the name, on the cluster, the relationship between them, alternatives, meta-commentary...

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Thanks for this! I also loved @TheAnnaGat's post and also have reservations about the name for basically the same reasons. The name I use internally is just "the cool kids"

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