Before you go what was the best part of this summer season? For me this was a summer of very hot and humid days that really was not the best part of this summer. I would have to think back to my childhood days for my best parts of summer, so this summer season was just too humid to really enjoy anything with temperatures in the 100's. You cannot bask in the sunshine when it is that nasty hot and humid and you break a sweat just walking slowly to get the mail or walk two dogs around the house.
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Mark Graham
I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Before you go what are some of the ways you can make space for new opportunities in your life? I can make space for some new opportunities by organizing my writing materials for a more organized feeling for writing. It seems like the autumn season is a season of change and to me that means a time for reorganization or to make some changes to how I am going to do my various projects dealing with writing, coloring and crafts. Right now for some reason I do not feel organized, but I am trying to get things in order soon.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Standing While Falling
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH11 days ago in Critique
Lingua ex machina
Peter Ayolov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Abstract This article examines the claim that language is not merely a product of human nature and evolutionary adaptation, but a force that, once constituted, begins to shape humans in its own image. Drawing on Elan Barenholtz’s Substack essay ‘Syntax is Dead! Long Live Syntax!’ and the University of Toronto discussion ‘The (Terrifying) Theory That Your Thoughts Were Never Your Own’, the text argues that language initially emerged as an adaptive coordination system but gradually detached from its biological origins through external memory technologies such as writing, print, audio, and video. With the advent of large language models, this autonomy becomes visible for the first time. Syntax appears not as an innate causal engine but as an emergent statistical shadow of predictive systems. Language, understood as an autogenerative informational system, now operates as a cultural and cognitive environment that produces meaning, belief, identity, and even metaphysical concepts such as God. In this sense, language does not reflect reality so much as organise it, creating human subjects through symbolic structures that precede intention and awareness.
By Peter Ayolovabout 19 hours ago in Critique
Comments (4)
Lovely memories!
It's strange how much we were able to tolerate the heat and humidity as young children, but as adults, it's quite unbearable.
Childhood and summer go hand in hand.
Wow... I couldn't take it! 80 degrees is too hot for me. I don't think we even had any 90-degree days this summer. We usually have a couple where I live. It is defintely fall weather here now! We will have a few warmer days but not many. It is just beautiful. Leaves are probably at peak colors right now. We had some frost this morning. Hubby already has part of the snow fence up.😉😂