Tempted (Am I?) to Build 'a Whole `Nother Blog' on what's Just Another #Category | @CopelandNetwork @StanfordPhil @MindScienceFdn @InsideEdition @ChrisCuomo

'That word' (below-hyperlinked to what might be 'a whole `nother blog') is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...

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The word “Category” is built on ancient words that mean " Down-to (or maybe |Against ( |Cata-)) + |Harangue- or |Declaim in the Public |Assembly |Gathering" (the sense of Accuse had weakened to Assert (or Name) by the time Aristotle applied it to his 'Ten Classes of Things that can be Named').

#Categorical #Categorize #Categories #Categorically #Categorization #SubCategory

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An ad in Kenneth Copeland Ministries' BELIEVERS' VOICE OF VICTORY inspired me to start a new 'wing' of this 'mind-mansion' (I think I've actually already done it here) ... I'm not sure why, but I started to make 'a whole `nother blog' with that post; I understand why a normal person might want to (the way people like to separate 'work' from 'home-life' from 'school' from 'work' etc.), but this is—I think I'm trying to "transcribe my brain to the web" ...

... and my brain doesn't 'put up walls between categories.' I think that's the secret to a) how I got such high grades in school and b) how I managed to defy medical science and both survive- and exceedingly^* recover from-a Traumatic Brain-Injury.

Something that leads me to believe this: researching the word "Trivia," I 'stumbled upon' the word "Quadrivia"—the Quadrivium being Arithmetic, Geometry, Music and Astronomy (the four subjects which medieval university-scholars studied after they'd mastered the Trivium of Grammar, Rhetoric & Logic—the seven subjects of Liberal Arts, considered necessary as foundations for Philosophy & Theology).

I'll research that a little more later (why did they consider "Rhetoric" a basic subject ... when most school-kids don't even know what that is these days?), but ... we're talking about 'my brain.' I loved Music ... oh, I still do love music; but in my school-days, I-- I-- you might say I "wanted to marry it"—not for the "carnal" reason that's apparently still the main reason people want to get married, but rather "for the applause" (the basic praise paid for the performance of a master).

I think that's why I learned to read when I was 3-or-4—my mother or father would read a storybook to me every night, and my young mind wanted to have the power to 'make "the markings on the books' pages" (letters that make words) tell stories' the same way my parents did. And so–whenever I correctly identified one of the letters or words or sentences etc.–my brain gave itself a little dopamine-dose.

That's the same way I'd get a dopamine-dose whenever I correctly solved a math-problem, scored high on a History-test, or figured out how to play a complicated 'lick' (or maybe 'arpeggio') on the violin/fiddle or piano or xylophone/marimba or snare-drum or drum-set or bongos etc.

So the music (and arithmetic ... and grammar & logic) 'trained my brain' to "do a good job" (dopamine is known as 'the good-job chemical,' yeah?).

And I found that I 'did a good job' more often when I could use "things I learned in one area (e.g. Music)" in all the other areas.

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And maybe I just demonstrated 'why people put different categories into totally separate works': so-that they aren't tempted to go off on tangential subjects (the way "categorization" somehow inspired me to bring up 'neural networking' 🧠)

*I'll never 'completely' recover–kind of like Chris Cuomo says of COVID19-survivors' ongoing struggle–but my recovery far 'exceeded' that of almost anyone whose injury & prognosis were as bad as mine.