User:Alma
Account for the person who plays Alma and Zohal. long time ago she was in college for a while and studied psychology together with computer science. She likes thinking of cognition and sapience in all forms, not just in primates. Alma is her first mage character and she picked a corvidologist because of the whole cognition and sapience in non-primates thing.
My user pages are hodgepodges that are mainly of use to me. read at your own risk. you will encounter irrelevance.
things re Detroit that illustrate various systemic inequalities and challenges PCs and NPCs might face.
Contents
utilities
/Three Fates page for if I want a url to illustrate a fortune telling to someone
refs for working on paradigm shifts
Buddhism
- maitri: the intention and capacity to offer joy and happiness. loving kindness
- karuna: the intention and capacity to relieve and transform suffering and lighten sorrows
- mudita: joy
- upeksha: equanimity, nonattachment, nondiscrimination, even- mindedness, or letting go
Hinduism
Samkhya is one of the six āstika schools of Hindu philosophy.
one of the many things I dug up while looking into the concept of Pakriti to figure out whether my character would ever learn the Matter sphere.
Jainism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anekantavada
Anekāntavāda (Sanskrit: अनेकान्तवाद, "many-sidedness") ...The ultimate truth and reality is complex and has multiple aspects.
... According to Jainism, no single, specific statement can describe the nature of existence and the absolute truth. ... All knowledge claims, according to the anekāntavāda doctrine must be qualified in many ways, including being affirmed and denied.[9] Anekāntavāda is a fundamental doctrine of Jainism.
Cort, John (2000). "Intellectual Ahimsa revisited: Jain Tolerance and Intolerance of Others". Philosophy East and West. University of Hawai'i Press. 50 (3): 324–47. JSTOR 1400177.
There is a summary of discussion in Jainism: An Introduction as to whether the interpretation of this as intellectual ahimsa (and/or religious pluralism, tolerance, etc) accurately reflects the historical foundation of anekantavada.
Syādvāda (Sanskrit: स्याद्वाद) is the theory of conditioned predication [1]
- Arguably, it (that is, some object) exists (syad asty eva).
- Arguably, it does not exist (syan nasty eva).
- Arguably, it exists; arguably, it doesn't exist (syad asty eva syan nasty eva).
- Arguably, it is non-assertible (syad avaktavyam eva).
- Arguably, it exists; arguably, it is non-assertible (syad asty eva syad avaktavyam eva).
- Arguably, it doesn't exist; arguably, it is non-assertible (syan nasty eva syad avaktavyam eva).
- Arguably, it exists; arguably, it doesn't exist; arguably it is non-assertible (syad asty eva syan nasty eva syad avaktavyam eva).
systems thinking
and refinements on. also in ecology. etc.
Symmathesy: A Word in Progress. Mutual Learning in Living Systems.
plus need to do further reflection on Gestaltism.
refs for initial paradigm
An Inchoate Universe: James’s Probabilistic Underdeterminism, Kyle Bromhall (pdf)
a friend has a blog post that makes some of my thinking legible on maintaining uncertainty. [negative capacity and tolerating uncertainty. negative capacity and tolerating uncertainty]
some paradigm shifts will just be refinements
misc
Initial reaction to Order of Hermes: stuffyshirts https://runningahackerspace.tumblr.com/post/168084177185/we-came-up-with-a-bunch-of-rules-for-this-thingsu
some refs for initial paradigm, but also some refs for ideas to bounce off of for initial character and npc creation /Fun References
Character pages
