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.

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

New Essay I have just added a new essay, titled “On Imagination.” I’ve just now posted to the website the following new essay: “On Imagination” This essay and others of mine can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page. New Posters I have also added twelve new posters on general semantics to the […]

I’ve just now posted to the website the following new essay: The Ize Have It … These and others of my essays can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page.

I’ve just now posted to the website the following two essays: Some General Semantics Principles: An Approach to Developing Our Thinking and Critical Reasoning Skills Politics: An Unexplored and Undeveloped Branch of Psychology These and others of my essays can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page.

I’ve recently released two new essays: What Does Anything Mean Anyway? Your Guess is as Good as Mine The Calculus, a Powerful Thinking and Psychological Tool These and others of my essays can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page. Updated October 8, 2018: An updated version of “The Calculus” essay.

Here are three new posters I’ve created on general semantics, language, and politics. They — and others of my posters — may be viewed on the Posters page.

I’ve recently released three new essays: Our Emotions and Feelings as Ways of Being Expanding Our Horizons Through Codes We Can Live By Words Will Have Power Over Us to The Degree We Do Not Use Our Power Over Words These and others of my essays can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts […]

Below is a new series of posters I’ve created on general semantics, titled Reflections on the Notions of “Meaning” and “The Truth” (Parts 1 & 2). They are based on my new essay of the same title.  It may be read here. My other posters may be viewed on the Posters page.

I recently added to my website my new essay “Consciousness of Abstracting: A Master Principle.” Here is a sample: We can think of consciousness of abstracting as not only the master principle in Korzybski’s general semantics, but also a master principle of principles. This master principle provides us with one of the most important psycho-logical […]

This essay titled “Critical Evaluating” — recently added to my website — was presented at the Eleventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on General Semantics held at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, in November 1995. The paper was edited by Susan Presby-Kodish, then Director of Education for the Institute of General Semantics. Here is a sample: Without […]

I invite you to read my new essay titled “In Pursuit of the Ideal of Personal Excellence through Conscious Times-Binding.” Here is a sample: Pursuing the ideal of personal excellence is not about being a perfectionist; is not a goal to be reached, a project to prove anything to anyone, or unnecessarily stressing oneself through […]

I’ve added three new essays to my Essays page. From “Time-binding” to “Times-binding” to “Conscious Times-binding” Realities: Words, ‘Minds’, Institutions, Psychoanalysis and Cosmoanalysis: A Calculus-Structural-Heuristic Approach Structuring The Notion “Time”  

Here are two new posters I’ve created on general semantics.   They — and others of my posters — may be viewed on the Posters page.  

I have been quite active writing. Here are seven new posters I’ve created on general semantics.

I invite you to read my new essay titled “Structuring the Notion ‘Space-Time’: A General Semantics Conscious Times-binding Approach.” Here is a sample: The terms “past”, “present”, and “future” can be thought of as convenient, but grossly inaccurate ‘measurements’: semiotic maps; labels representing imprecise , but nevertheless potent verbal mapping of events. Our human journey–one […]

                     Our Emotions and Feelings as Ways of Being Our emotional reactions and feelings point us to our ways of being and ways we relate with our-selves, with others, and situations. They provide us with clues to how situations affect us and how we deal with situations. Attending to our […]

                                     Structuring and The Notion “Time”     A General Semantics Conscious Times-binding Approach The exploration of the notion “time” from a general semantics structural perspective presents propositions that can be easily corroborated or refuted by anyone who cares to do the relevant observations. I have offered some structuring of the term “structure” and others general […]

“As our field of vision, so too the scope of our knowledge, and the range of our interests are bounded.” “…what lies beyond one’s horizon is simply outside the range of one’s knowledge and interests”: one neither knows nor cares. But what lies within one’s horizon is in some measure, great or small, an object […]

REATING MORE SATISFYING RELATIONSHIPS: AN ONGOING PROCESS… To be ………………. is to be in relationships. When we think of the conflicts, confusions, anger, disappointments, insecurities, uncertainties, etc., that each of us experiences within our own ‘selves’ from time to time …should we be surprised that our relationships with others are not always smooth sailing? If we sometimes […]

                               General Semantics: An Overview   Every now and again, students of general semantics are asked: “What is general semantics?  The abstractions (selections) below represent an overview. They do not answer the question as asked: It is translated to “What is general semantics […]

Note: This essay may also be found here under Formal Essays & Handouts.                                                Lonergan And Korzybski  Towards a deeper understanding of self, others and the world we live in.    We have […]

 Some Thoughts on Consciousness of Abstracting, Meaning, And                                                                       Truth Towards a saner world. In his seminal book “Science And Sanity”, […]

Korzybski, valued science and mathematics as models of “human thinking at it’s best” (in terms of predictability). He created-offered “General Semantics” as generalized science and mathematics. An important characteristic of science and mathematics involves “time-binding”: reviewing, modifying, abandoning, and refining previously held views, opinions, beliefs, paradigms, theories, definitions, experiments, actions, etc. Expanding our vocabulary, and […]

Please view my wall hanging from 1976 titled “Creative Being.”

Please read this article at the site and let me ‘know’ what you think –for or against.  Milton

Please note that my new essay titled “No One Saw It Coming?: Korzybski’s Concerns, Predictions, and Time-Binding Suggestions” is available in my Formal Papers & Essays section, under the heading “Science & Technology.” You can also immediately read the essay by clicking here.

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 […]