https://accidentalgods.life/holding-the-paradox-navigating-a-changing-world-with-andrea-hiott-of-making-ways/ I quite enjoyed this interview. It makes sense that thinking and navigating are continuums of each other. Biologically, they are integrated through the hippocampus, which is our GPS both cognitively (via memory) and spatially. What I'm getting out of this: - Our language is very dualistic. - When we critique social media, we are using the very tools that we are critiquing. This introduces a lot of complexity and paradox that we need to be aware of. This makes me think of Theseus' ship. - We can use the same language with a very different kind of consciousness. For example, using the language of money in a very different way will slowly alter its meaning. Language is like the surface reality that we can all see. Meaning is the invisible biome, the dark matter from which the surface reality is created. - Hiott thinks of dialectic thought as sedimentation, the accumulation of layers and paradoxes that doesn't seek to extinguish prior meanings. - Wayfinding in cognitive space - holding two positions at once, and being able to describe how to get from one to the other, and vice versa. - How do we establish new methods of wayfinding when our existing landmarks are dissolving? - Trump was appealing as a politician because he presented the same regularities that people were used to from social media. Social media, an external regularity, started shaping our internal regularities. -