Cross-posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/some-thoughts-what-milton-dawes-4ubhe. What’s the verb form of what? 😎 I came across this question some moments ago…And started Wondering and Thinking. The piece below represents some of the ideas that came up. Since we can’t do Nothing: “How about “Whating”” Instead of What? Nouns create a great deal of our human problems. Nouns, including […]

Cross-posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mathematics-psychologics-milton-dawes-9qoue. In our high school introduction to Math, understandably, we  are not taught to think of  Math.  as also Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Tools — Tools we can use to gain  some Knowledge and Understanding, of our Knowledge and Understanding of  ourselves, others, and the World.  Among the most  powerful ideas the human mind […]

Cross-posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bad-parenting-milton-dawes-4clre. Just  saw this caption on TV a few minutes ago. “Today’s youth is a result of bad parenting.” Growing up in Jamaica W. I., when there  was a report of a child (youth) behaving badly, the general reaction in the town or village was “No home training.”  or,  “Poor home training.” I  […]

Cross-posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tug-of-war-milton-dawes-vp3be. Imagine this as  a ‘transcript’ of the latest report coming from a Band of Anthropologists and Historians. The Band originated several centuries ago. They have been observing and  studying the evolution of Tug-of-Wars between nations. From their records: Ancient Tug-of-Wars were carried out with Rulers pulling on the  ropes with Tuggers. Tuggers […]

Cross-posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-greatfull-milton-dawes-f3sde. A great  deal has been said and written about politicians taking away rights in Quebec Canada. I will add  this: We should all feel and “Be ‘Greatfull’” that we live in Canada. (And I emphasize “All”). Throughout history, many living in countries with racial  differences, not only have suffered from rights  being […]

Cross-posted at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tam-mount-royal-montreal-quebec-canada-milton-dawes. It isn’t true that no one knows how the drumming on Mount Royal in Montreal, now known as “Tam Tam”, started. I was one of the seven who started this now quite attractive cultural event. Seven of us, around 1979, (not sure of the date) were introduced to African drumming by someone […]

Those we call Presidents, Premiers, Dictators, Leaders, Rulers, etc., are all humans…But in discussing serious international relationship problems, it seems as if psychological factors are not important: They are usually put aside and replaced with euphemistic diplomatic courtesies. For sure: Diplomacy is much more preferable than warring–But not when diplomacy trumps sound reasoning. When seeking […]

I have just added a new essay, titled “Asymmetric Relationships.” You can read it here. This essay and others of mine can also be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page.

I have just added a new essay, titled “If The Virus Could Talk.” You can read it here. This essay and others of mine can also be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page.

New Essay I have just added a new essay, titled “On Imagination.” I’ve just now posted to the website the following new essay: “On Imagination” This essay and others of mine can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page. New Posters I have also added twelve new posters on general semantics to the […]

I’ve just now posted to the website the following new essay: The Ize Have It … These and others of my essays can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page.

I’ve just now posted to the website the following two essays: Some General Semantics Principles: An Approach to Developing Our Thinking and Critical Reasoning Skills Politics: An Unexplored and Undeveloped Branch of Psychology These and others of my essays can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page.

I’ve recently released two new essays: What Does Anything Mean Anyway? Your Guess is as Good as Mine The Calculus, a Powerful Thinking and Psychological Tool These and others of my essays can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts page. Updated October 8, 2018: An updated version of “The Calculus” essay.

Here are three new posters I’ve created on general semantics, language, and politics. They — and others of my posters — may be viewed on the Posters page.

I’ve recently released three new essays: Our Emotions and Feelings as Ways of Being Expanding Our Horizons Through Codes We Can Live By Words Will Have Power Over Us to The Degree We Do Not Use Our Power Over Words These and others of my essays can be found on the Formal Essays & Handouts […]

Below is a new series of posters I’ve created on general semantics, titled Reflections on the Notions of “Meaning” and “The Truth” (Parts 1 & 2). They are based on my new essay of the same title.  It may be read here. My other posters may be viewed on the Posters page.

I recently added to my website my new essay “Consciousness of Abstracting: A Master Principle.” Here is a sample: We can think of consciousness of abstracting as not only the master principle in Korzybski’s general semantics, but also a master principle of principles. This master principle provides us with one of the most important psycho-logical […]

This essay titled “Critical Evaluating” — recently added to my website — was presented at the Eleventh International Interdisciplinary Conference on General Semantics held at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, in November 1995. The paper was edited by Susan Presby-Kodish, then Director of Education for the Institute of General Semantics. Here is a sample: Without […]

I invite you to read my new essay titled “In Pursuit of the Ideal of Personal Excellence through Conscious Times-Binding.” Here is a sample: Pursuing the ideal of personal excellence is not about being a perfectionist; is not a goal to be reached, a project to prove anything to anyone, or unnecessarily stressing oneself through […]

Here are three new posters I’ve created on general semantics. Updated 7/23/2016 with a revised version of  In Pursuit of the Ideal of Personal Excellence through Conscious Times-Binding. They — and others of my posters — may be viewed on the Posters page.

I’ve added three new essays to my Essays page. From “Time-binding” to “Times-binding” to “Conscious Times-binding” Realities: Words, ‘Minds’, Institutions, Psychoanalysis and Cosmoanalysis: A Calculus-Structural-Heuristic Approach Structuring The Notion “Time”  

Here are two new posters I’ve created on general semantics. They — and others of my posters — may be viewed on the Posters page.

I have been quite active writing. Here are seven new posters I’ve created on general semantics.

I invite you to read my new essay titled “Structuring the Notion ‘Space-Time’: A General Semantics Conscious Times-binding Approach.” Here is a sample: The terms “past”, “present”, and “future” can be thought of as convenient, but grossly inaccurate ‘measurements’: semiotic maps; labels representing imprecise , but nevertheless potent verbal mapping of events. Our human journey–one […]

Recently I created more new posters to add to the collection I’ve created over the years to elaborate on general semantics principles. I have posted them online here, and they may also be accessed from the menu bar on my website. Below are the latest posters. All posters are copyrighted.

Over the years I have created posters to elaborate on general semantics principles. Recently I created several new posters. I have posted them online here, and they may also be accessed from the menu bar on my website. Below are the latest posters. All posters are copyrighted.

                     Our Emotions and Feelings as Ways of Being Our emotional reactions and feelings point us to our ways of being and ways we relate with our-selves, with others, and situations. They provide us with clues to how situations affect us and how we deal with situations. Attending to our […]

                                     Structuring and The Notion “Time”     A General Semantics Conscious Times-binding Approach The exploration of the notion “time” from a general semantics structural perspective presents propositions that can be easily corroborated or refuted by anyone who cares to do the relevant observations. I have offered some structuring of the term “structure” and others general […]

Over the years I have created posters to elaborate on general semantics principles. I have posted them online here, and they may also be accessed from the menu bar on my website. Below is the current collection. All posters are copyrighted.

“As our field of vision, so too the scope of our knowledge, and the range of our interests are bounded.” “…what lies beyond one’s horizon is simply outside the range of one’s knowledge and interests”: one neither knows nor cares. But what lies within one’s horizon is in some measure, great or small, an object […]

REATING MORE SATISFYING RELATIONSHIPS: AN ONGOING PROCESS… To be ………………. is to be in relationships. When we think of the conflicts, confusions, anger, disappointments, insecurities, uncertainties, etc., that each of us experiences within our own ‘selves’ from time to time …should we be surprised that our relationships with others are not always smooth sailing? If we sometimes […]

                               General Semantics: An Overview   Every now and again, students of general semantics are asked: “What is general semantics?  The abstractions (selections) below represent an overview. They do not answer the question as asked: It is translated to “What is general semantics […]

Note: This essay may also be found here under Formal Essays & Handouts.                                                Lonergan And Korzybski  Towards a deeper understanding of self, others and the world we live in.    We have […]

 Some Thoughts on Consciousness of Abstracting, Meaning, And                                                                       Truth Towards a saner world. In his seminal book “Science And Sanity”, […]

Korzybski, valued science and mathematics as models of “human thinking at it’s best” (in terms of predictability). He created-offered “General Semantics” as generalized science and mathematics. An important characteristic of science and mathematics involves “time-binding”: reviewing, modifying, abandoning, and refining previously held views, opinions, beliefs, paradigms, theories, definitions, experiments, actions, etc. Expanding our vocabulary, and […]

Please view my wall hanging from 1976 titled “Creative Being.”

Please read this article at the site and let me ‘know’ what you think –for or against.  Milton

I’ve recently written an essay titled “Advanced Thinking” on mathematics, general semantics, and ways to improve relationships. I’ve posted it in the Formal Essays & Handouts section of my website.  You can read the essay here.

A t-shirt I designed featuring a portrait of Alfred Korzybski on the front and my “chalice” handout on the back titled “Practicing Conscious Time-Binding” made an appearance at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan at the Occupy Wall Street movement. Ben Hauck appears in the photos wearing the shirt. The portrait on the front is by […]

I have recently updated my essay “Abstractions from Lonergan’s Insight: A Study of Human Understanding on Transcendence.” You can download the colorful handout version by clicking here. For more insights into the essay, click here.

I have recently updated my essay “Thinking about Thinking.” You can download the colorful handout version by clicking here. For more insights into the essay, click here.

Please note that my new essay titled “No One Saw It Coming?: Korzybski’s Concerns, Predictions, and Time-Binding Suggestions” is available in my Formal Papers & Essays section, under the heading “Science & Technology.” You can also immediately read the essay by clicking here.

I listened to some of the ‘debate’ re. “Don’t ask, don’t tell”. A representative “Susan Collins” commented “We welcome the service of these individuals who want to serve their country……”. I am wondering: Would it not make a big difference in terms of support for dropping this rule if just one word was changed in […]

Recently I updated the “chalice” featured in my essay, “Practicing Conscious Time-Binding.” You may view the updated chalice by clicking here.

Where are the critical thinkers? Is there no one with enough courage to suggest that a statement referring to the constitutional rights of a group, and a statement about the wisdom of that group making a decision based on those rights, is not “being inconsistent, flip flopping, back tracking”, etc., as I have heard on […]

The abstractions below could be seen-labelled “crazy thinking, far out, a stretch” and so on. But in my opinion, doing that would be invalidating the fields of  psychoanalysis and psychology…implying that they were irrelevant to advancing our understanding of human behavior. It would be  denying the general semantics premise proposing relationship between language, attitude, behaviour, etc. And also […]

                                                  Corporate Dictatorship?           As trusts or groups have replaced the theoretically ‘individual’ capitalism in the United States of America, so will the state capitalism, replace the trusts, to be replaced in its turn by international capitalism. Science And Sanity, Page 272   As we learned lately, not only human achievements, but also human disasters, are mostly  interrelated and […]

I invite you to do some time-binding and improve the proposal below.  Design the “financial reform laws” to include the following: “It’s illegal to institute or activate  any new or amended ‘instruments’ created by a registered ‘financial institution’ before submitting such new or amended instrument to regulatory committees for review and approval.

Thinking comes  natural for us but clear thinking, thinking from higher viewpoints, remembering the bigger picture, and the longer cycle usually do not come to us naturally. Improving our thinking skills will help us improve our day to day interactions, minimize stressfull encounters,  and create more satisfying personal and professional relationships. One  very effective way  to practice […]

I have recently updated my essay titled “Developing a Self a General Semantics Way.” Click here to read the recently updated essay.

More of a good thing does not mean better.  Capitalism built America. But more and more unregulated capitalistic activity could destroy America. What do you think?

I have put online two different writings: a poem titled “Festina Lente” and an essay titled “Much Ado about Nothing.”  I hope you’ll give them a read.  Both can be found in my Formal Essays & Handouts section, and come in online-readable and .pdf formats.

I have an essay of mine published in the new issue of ETC: A Review of General Semantics. It is titled “Thoughts on Space, Time, Awareness, and Difference2008.”  You can read it by clicking here.