RELATIVISM & HUMAN REALITY / MATERIAL REALITY Stan referred me to this 18 minute TED talk by a young girl attacking USA’s trending adaptation of “relativism”, which she argues is logically inconsistent and dangerous. I have recently proposed a significant distinction between Material Reality (MR) and Human Reality (HR) which sheds a different light on…

I returned home from a month in hospital and rehab (3/9-4/6), a few days ago. This was composed during the past three days, as I adjusted to life, again. I collapsed the day after Eloise was discharged from 2 weeks at TMC (3/6). I was to care for her. My speech and swallowing mechanisms collapsed….

04/07/2019 The crisis calling for this research has been resolved. I’ve had BMs and am home, recovering from a month hospitalization & rehab for a none functional speech/swallowing mechanism. At home I did a major laxative purge, resulting in moderate feces and a day of major discomfort. My colon was not impacted, as I erroneously…

UPLIFT, this word, is a sem (semiotic structure in MR). It labels an emerging web of conceptual schemes in my mind/brain (HR) associated with an emergent net of sems/reports in my semfield. You are not expected to adequately comprehend the above sentence, or most sentences here, by passive reading. UPLIFT, and many conceptual schemes cannot…

Larry at UMC Banner, room 3342. Phone: 520-694-3166. Severe breakdown of my swallowing mechanism. Currently tube fed to intestines via nose. Trials learning to eat, with hope. I intend to return to my senior apartment within a week (03/18/19), with Eloise`a care. I am in good spirits, but eager to be home and online. I…

This was initially an email, copy/pasted here and edited. It was in response to a request to cite an example of my writing to use as part of a “fundraiser”: this is not that example, but discusses the difficult selecting, or composing such a doc. My most comprehensive doc on UPLIFT is my published Spanda…

I miss our times together. I desperately need quality dialog, feedback, and collaboration – to enrich my life. But, far more important, to craft the conceptual schemes labeled “UPLIFT” and “Up2Met” and apply them in birthing/metamorphosing humankind into humanity, insuring survival/thrival of Humanity/Gaia. A truly EPIC STORY. A demented old man in a senior facility…

FACING OUR LIMITATIONS Most leading, active activists are at their human limits. Human brains remain basically the same as our hunting-gathering ancestors. We are incapable, as individuals, of experiencing the complexity and scope of our larger societal reality. We can work conceptually with systems of no more than 3 independent variables (5-9 re George Miller)…

Today I made a significant discovery, I discovered that I’ve recently been frequently re-discovering everyday “things” in my life. Example: every morning when I look at the shelf above my computer I re-discover the bottles of pills I must take that day, specifically my thyroid pills, after which I may remember I must take them…

12/02/2018 I first tried my new, inexpensive hearing aides, purchased from Amazon. I used only the right ear. I was able to seat it in my ear and adjust volume to hear tv without blasting. However, bringing my hands to my ear or even turning my head to the right caused a loud squeal. To…