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Tyler Alterman

Today I learned a term that captures why I care about aesthetics: introjection. It refers to the mind’s tendency to structure the internal world with patterns perceived externally. I worry that if we make environments ugly/homogenous/boring then our minds follow suit.

  • Introjection - the mind’s tendency to structure the internal world with patterns perceived externally.
  • "You can become beautiful by surrounding yourself with beautiful things: clothes, furniture, paintings, people" - not sure I agree with this, or at least the word "can" is doing a lot of work.
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almost 2 years ago

• The Invisible College • Lunar Society • Bloomsbury Group • The Inklings • Villa Diodati • CCRU • Kit-Cat Club • The Vienna Circle • The Philosophical Society • The Stein Salon • Reality Club • SL4 • Olympia Academy • Transcendental Club Start the next one.

almost 3 years ago

*Thread on the hierarchy of coordination mechanisms* The world is one huge coordination puzzle. But problematically, the most powerful coordination mechanism isn't [religion], [family], [ethnicity], [love], or [common goal]. It's [common enemy]. 1/n