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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Examples:
• individual sense cells have their ontum baked in, eg a cone cell detects certain light wavelengths
• one level up there's an ontum of PINK 🌸= {blue, red, no green}
• a few levels further is an ontum of PINK as a *concept* with associations to gender or panther
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Motor examples:
• lowest level: an individual muscle cell tensing
• 2nd level: the overall position of a finger
• 3rd level: the hand in the shape of a G chord on this particular instrument (much higher is the concept of G across 🎸🎹)
• 4th level: transition between G & C
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More examples:
• ontum: air with a skunky smell
• ontum: "skunk" as a species
• ontum: "cannabis sativa" as a species
• ontum: "stoned/high" as a state of mind someone could have
• ontum: "bloodshot eyes" as a perception
• ontum: "how high am I?"
• ontum: THC
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Yet more examples (these are just pointers; diff between ppl)
• ontum: money
• ontum: my money
• ontum: my income
• ontum: rich
• ontum: "the rich"
• ontum: value
• ontum: GDP
• ontum: the thing GDP is a proxy for
• ontum: capitalism
• ontum: $GME
• ontum: billionaire
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"we should conclude that a particular thing is real if and only if it figures in our best explanation of something"
= a criterion for reality
by @DavidDeutschOxf
Intriguingly, suggests that new explanation could make old thing unreal. Also, reality @ multiple abstraction layers
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For a given ontum, you can set the reference level to something else, eg "I should have more money", but it's hard to deliberately create/change/destroy a given ontum, at least at very high and very low levels.
In between, not hard to eg find out about a new food you like.
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gonna cross-quote these two threads together
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provisionally: your ontology is the set of all things that some part of you is tracking, on some level
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