Cross-posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-thoughts-what-milton-dawes-4ubhe. What’s the verb form of what? 😎 I came across this question some moments ago…And started Wondering and Thinking. The piece below represents some of the ideas that came up. Since we can’t do Nothing: “How about “Whating”” Instead of What? Nouns create a great deal of our human problems. Nouns, including […]

Cross-posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mathematics-psychologics-milton-dawes-9qoue. In our high school introduction to Math, understandably, we  are not taught to think of  Math.  as also Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Tools — Tools we can use to gain  some Knowledge and Understanding, of our Knowledge and Understanding of  ourselves, others, and the World.  Among the most  powerful ideas the human mind […]

I have just added a new essay, titled “Asymmetric Relationships.” You can read it here. This essay and others of mine can also be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page.

A t-shirt I designed featuring a portrait of Alfred Korzybski on the front and my “chalice” handout on the back titled “Practicing Conscious Time-Binding” made an appearance at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan at the Occupy Wall Street movement. Ben Hauck appears in the photos wearing the shirt. The portrait on the front is by […]

I listened to some of the ‘debate’ re. “Don’t ask, don’t tell”. A representative “Susan Collins” commented “We welcome the service of these individuals who want to serve their country……”. I am wondering: Would it not make a big difference in terms of support for dropping this rule if just one word was changed in […]

The abstractions below could be seen-labelled “crazy thinking, far out, a stretch” and so on. But in my opinion, doing that would be invalidating the fields of  psychoanalysis and psychology…implying that they were irrelevant to advancing our understanding of human behavior. It would be  denying the general semantics premise proposing relationship between language, attitude, behaviour, etc. And also […]

More of a good thing does not mean better.  Capitalism built America. But more and more unregulated capitalistic activity could destroy America. What do you think?