Sublime

closed-loop feedback from output to input. One conspicuous feature of this approach was that such systems could appear to have “purposes” or “goals,”

The first properties we thought about had to do with anatomical features of the brain.

That is why the slip-box is not introduced as another technique, but as a crucial element in an overarching workflow that is stripped of everything that could distract from what is important. Good tools do not add features and more options to what we already have, but help to reduce distractions from the main work, which here is thinking. The slip-

By adding these links between notes, Luhmann was able to add the same note to different contexts. While other systems start with a preconceived order of topics, Luhmann developed topics bottom up.

The first system is designed to find things you deliberately search for, putting all the responsibility on your brain. The slip-box is designed to present you with ideas you have already forgotten, allowing your brain to focus on thinking instead of remembering.

You decide what entities are there, what their relationship is to one another, and so on.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge called ‘esemplastic power’, the ability to shape disparate things into one, to take combinations and make a new whole.

“In any case, no matter how internal processes are implemented, insofar as thinkers are genuinely concerned with what enables human beings to perform the spectacular intellectual feats exhibited in science and other areas of systematic enquiry, as well as in the arts, they need to understand the extent to which the mind is reliant upon external sca

Instead, all human experience arises at the meeting point of informed predictions and sensory stimulations.