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333 hyperlinked slides compiled while awaiting review of paper submitted to Journal of Consciousness Studies on October 30, 2023. The following is the (negative) review received February 9, 2024: "I regret to have to say that I cannot recommend this manuscript for publication in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, nor for further consideration by the journal.

It is difficult to extract from the manuscript a focused thesis or even a focused topic of discussion.  The manuscript operates throughout at a rather impressionistic level, describing what the author means by terms such as 'human being', 'consciousness', 'intuition', and 'life', as well as terms that figure in the author's proprietary apparatus, which involve things linguist sets described as microlects.  

There are frequent examples of appeals to well-known work by authors without explanation of how that work relates to what is being discussed.  One example:  "The repercussions in mathematics, philosophy – and even culture – of the notion of the particular kind of metalect called meta- mathematics are profound:  it is the core of Kurt G¨odel’s metamathematical incompleteness theorems."  It is hard to make coherent sense of this remark.  And there are frequent quotations without reference, such as "The saying that in geometry 'instead of points, lines and planes one might just as well as talk of tables, chairs and beer mugs' is attributed to David Hilbert."

And definitions are often not consistent from one part of the manuscript to another.  The author tells us that "Expressing an intuition is a “way of Being,” so there are as many way of Being as there are expressions of intuitions in microlects," but also maintains a couple of pages later that "Intuition means essentially “pre-conscious thought,” and by definition is ineffable."  And immediately thereafter:  "An intuition is not necessarily a conscious-thought."  And later:  "The most primitive intuitions (also known as “gut feelings”) are feelings.  Intuitions are the constituents of consciousness."  I see no way of making sense of these scattered and inconsistent remarks.

The manuscript makes very frequent use at pivotal points to diagrams to convey the author's thoughts about consciousness, intuition, and other notions central to the discussion, but without any articulate description of how to cash out the diagrams in a clear, coherent way.

I admire the author's obvious passion for thinking about topics such as consciousness, thought, and intuition.  But the product of this passion must be combined with a disciplined exposition, which is absent here.

I would also comment for the author's potential benefit that the scope of topics discussed in this manuscript vastly exceeds what would be normal for a journal article, and that aiming to produce a book manuscript might afford the author more opportunity to be clear and coherent in a disciplined way."

Submitted to Journal of Consciousness Studies, October 30, 2023.

"A Python microlectronic computer program counts the frequencies of words in a text that have length greater than six. Such words and their frequencies in the text are counted and listed in decreasing order. All sentences in the text containing words in a specified list of user-selected high-frequency words are extracted, with the selected words displayed in upper-case letters. This aids the user who arranges the sentences in a narrative, and sometimes adjusts the writing for clarity, concision, and flow."

"The Notes were assembled with the help of a home-made text analysis computer application program (written in Python) called a ``reader assistant." The Adobe Acrobat Pro DC computer application program was used to convert dozens of .PDF files of articles and books, accumulated by a relentless process of due diligence, into Microsoft WORD .DOCX documents. The reader assistant breaks the .DOCX (or, indeed, any .TXT document) into a list of sentences, and counts the frequencies of occurrence of all words in the document of length greater than a reader-supplied number, like 6. The following are defined functions applicable to the words and sentences:

\begin{description}
\item[orgist(wordlist)] Display and record (in a .TXT file) all sentences with an occurrence of any word in the wordlist, with the word in uppercase letters.
\item[andgist(wordlist)] Display and record all sentences with an occurrence of all words in the wordlist, with the word in uppercase letters.
\item[wlf(wordlist)] In the sentences, display the most frequently occurring words from the wordlist with their frequencies of occurrence.
\item[phraser('phrasestring')] Display and record all sentences in which the phrasestring occurs, with the words in uppercase letters.
\item[pairmax(wordlist,sentencelist)] For every pair of distinct words in the wordlist, identify all the sentences in which both words occur (using andgist). Return the sentences of the word pair with the largest number of occurrences of the word pair.
\item[triplemax(wordlist,sentencelist] For every triple of distinct words in the wordlist, identify all the sentences in which both words occur (using andgist). Return the sentences of the word triple with the largest number of occurrences of the word triple.
\end{description}
The output .TXT file may be iteratively processed by the reader assistant. Careful culling of the list of output sentences may reveal a terse gist of the original .PDF document. Code for the reader assistant is provided following the Notes."

The code uses a recursive function to define forward integration of mental model diagram of a frequency doubler. There are five initial values of an oscillator which adjusts itself by feedback to converge on half the period of a driving sequence of pulses every 3 units of time. Hence the period of the first harmonic is 1.5.

"First-Order Categorical Logic" is printed too faintly for me to read. I cut off the book binding, scanned all pages into EVEN and ODD pages. EVEN pages were in reverese order, but ADOBE ACROBAT PRO knows how to reverse page order. Then ChatGPT provided PYTHON code for intercalating EVEN and ODD pages to form finished PDF of the book, to which I appended a review of the book.

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This report describes a new method of meta-linguistic analysis and its application to theoretical biology. Microlectics is a meta-linguistic pattern that classifies the specialized languages which express mental models, or intuitive patterns. The specialized languages are called microlects and range from verbal to pictorial to diagrammatic to formal to deductive  microlects. Macrolects are the ambient natural languages that contain microlects. Metalects are microlects about microlects, as, for example, metamathematics. Natural microlects are determined by their sentences, which are spoken or recorded utterances of human beings. Artificial microlects are composed, for example, by generative pre-trained transformer models (e.g., \gpt{3.5}) of natural language corpora. With an appropriately worded prompt, such a model can be used as a ``microscope" to examine the zeitgeist frozen in a corpus. ``Microlectics" is a self-referential microlect for expressing an intuitive pattern about microlects.\\

General Bond Theory is a deductive microlect -- categorical mereology -- for expressing an intuitive pattern, or mental model, of bonds which constrain the parts of wholes. A diagrammatic pattern called the ``Dedekind-Peano-Lawvere Axiom" encompasses multi-scale mutually constraining deterministic or stochastic patterns, Markovian or non-Markovian patterns, including as a special case simulations based on cellular automata, agent-based models, and the Gillespie Algorithm for simulation of chemical reaction systems.\\

For theoretical biology, this report introduces natural and artificial microlects for \LF, emphasizing the \textit{primal distinction} between Beings which are the unique things that have unbroken-chains-of-descent (via modifications of DNA macromolecules) from last universal common ancestors, and the rest, just Things, like computers running generative pre-trained transformer models. There is a deductive microlect equivalent to the widely used ``biological network generation language" (BNGL), and there is a natural microlect centered on the ``tyranny of scales" challenge to theoretical biology.\\

Encounters of Beings with other Beings, or with Things, are ephemeral bonds. An expression of a microlect of an intuitive pattern of one Being may resonate more or less with an intuitive pattern of another Being. A resonant cycle between human-Beings means heightened mutual understanding: questions express lower resonance. A resonant community is composed of human-Beings who understand one another. There is scientific evidence that politically resonant communities have significant genetic rather than familial, cultural, or intellectual commonality.\\
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\subsection{Key-Terms}
Being, category theory, community, deductive, generative pre-trained transformer, inference rule, intuitive pattern, \LF , mental model, microlect, resonance, Thing 

This is the sort of thing that might interest a graduate student in mathematical category theory.

Handwritten notes and diagrams on extending "behavioral mereology" by coupling time-scaled not-necessarily-Markovian patterns of behaviors in parts of wholes. The remote goal is a deductive framework for systems biology.

Here is a chance to see it falter on basic logic. It cannot grasp that an "ensenble" is a sample space of a probability space.

It falters on basic algebra of an energy equation. (Side conversation about antisemitism and Ezra Pound.)

ChatGPT expresses the zeitgeist of the world as represented in text on the World Wide Web during a period of time. Why would a philosoher care?

What does trigonometry got to do with accessing a zeitgeist?

Excellent example of a microlect, created by access to a zeitgeist.

Some details about how ChatGPT works, and how it might reflect upon itself.

According to it, a moving window of microlects across a corpus could be "a helpful tool in fields like medicine."

I asked it, "In your own words, how would you say that microlectics is the unique microlect for expressing mental-models about the realm of microlects for mental-models?"