Index: Hermeneutic Net

This is a somewhat messy collection of the work I did during my PIBBSS Fellowship in the summer of 2024. As of April 2025, I am prioritizing other work. I am leaving it as a snapshot of my thought as of late summer of 2024.

The thing I roughly tried to do is roughly described in this post.

Incumbent concepts

• Concepts
• V
• Intentionality
• Choiciness
• Optimization
• Thought
• Agency and Mentality
• Computation
• Belief and Knowledge
• Function
• Ontos
  • Ontic crises
• Actuation, shaping, acting
• Awareness, global workspace, Cartesian theater, subjective experience, homunculus, the myth of the given
• Will (willful, willfully)
• Effort, work
• Attention
• Imagination

Themes and ~novel concepts

• Scope
• Far-reach
• Mundane and arcane
• Homunculus