provisionally: your ontology is the set of all things that some part of you is tracking, on some level
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- your ontology mostly consists of things that you aren't tracking consciously, only subconsciously / preconsciously
- your ontology mostly consists of things you don't have words for
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- building skill in a domain mostly involves learning what to track, e.g. ontology-building
- teaching is mostly the art of setting up experiences that cause a student to track the appropriate things relevant to a skill
- skill in a domain is gated by ontology
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- part of your ontology is the set of all things that some part of you is tracking about your "self" (whatever that means)
- your skill at working with / managing / transforming your "self" is gated by your self-ontology
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- there is not a hard distinction between tracking something about your "self" and tracking lower-level data coming in from your senses; thoughts are sense-data, feelings are sense-data, interoception is sense-data, etc. etc.
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- so (again, provisionally): your skill at working with / managing / transforming "all of this" is gated by your ontology of "all of this"
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(the problem with saying "the universe" here is that it already sneaks in a few possible ontological commitments)
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ontum = a unit of ontology
Using a PCT lens, each of my perceptual control systems is responsible for perceiving & regulating exactly one ontum, and the set of all such onta in my system *is* my ontology.
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