New three-part publication set presenting a comprehensive system-theoretical framework for the structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript:

Monograph: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410209
Entry Note: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410808
Executive Summary: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19410495

Author ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1546-7234

#Voynich #AcademicResearch #SystemsTheory #Musicology #Archaeology #Philology #CognitiveScience #MediaStudies #DigitalHumanities

The Voynich Manuscript: A Systematic Reconstruction of Its Motoric Notation System and Acoustic Function

This monograph presents a comprehensive structural reconstruction of the Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) based solely on its observable formal properties. Using a systemic, transcription‑independent analytical framework, the study demonstrates that the manuscript does not encode linguistic, cryptographic, botanical, medical, or cosmological content. Instead, it constitutes a functional, multimodal system integrating modular motoric sequences, cyclical diagrammatic architectures, layered operational structures, and resonance‑based dynamics. The analysis identifies the manuscript as a bimanual motoric notation system whose internal logic corresponds to the technique of a Gothic harp with a double‑string bordun. Glyph sequences function as modular action units; diagrams provide cyclical and spatial form models; iconographic elements depict bodily coordination, acoustic resonance, and regenerative procedures. Together, these components form a coherent operational ecology for the execution of structured acoustic and motoric processes. The study situates the manuscript within a premodern workshop environment involving multiple scribes, embedded in a socially coordinated acoustic practice rather than a textual or symbolic tradition. This contextualization supports the manuscript’s authenticity and explains its multimodal, practice‑oriented structure. The monograph offers the first internally consistent explanation of the manuscript’s architecture, providing a reproducible analytical method, a functional classification, and a complete reconstruction of its structural logic.

Zenodo
We Are Losing to AI What We Never Learned to Appreciate

Something that we had taken for granted is slipping away, imperceptibly, as time goes by. That something is our ability to think.

Psychology Today
Your task pool belongs outside your head.
Your brain's working memory holds 3–5 items. A task pool with 30 items doesn't fit. Instead it overflows, creating anxiety and rumination. Externalizing isn't a crutch. It's how cognition is designed to work. The mind extends into tools, notes, and systems.
#Productivity #CognitiveScience
Study: Heylighen & Vidal (2008) — Getting Things Done: The Science Behind Stress-Free Productivity https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2008.09.004

The analysis of dream imagery remains a significant tool for psychological introspection and emotional regulation. 🏛️📜

I am pleased to share an insightful new resource by Kenneth K. Gray: "Dream Interpretation - Understand Your Dreams." For those interested in the intersection of cognitive science and personal reflection, this is an excellent resource.

Full article here:
🔗 https://www.authorkennethgray.com/dream-interpretation/

#Psychology #DreamAnalysis #KennethKGray #MentalHealth #CognitiveScience #SelfReflection

Corey Maley, philosophy professor at Purdue, talks about analog computation (45 minute video with 45 minutes of questions after):

https://coreymaley.net/about-me/

sounds like he has a book (*The analog mind *) that’s been stuck in development hell since ChatGPT sucked all the oxygen out of the area of cognition and computation.

I’m kind of sad his overview of analog computation doesn’t mention harmonic analyzers, tide prediction machines, or water models of the economy (not just a Terry Pratchett conceit!), but early in the talk he has some nice historical mechanical analog machines (multiplier, integrator, step function generator)

He’s working toward a view of computation that goes beyond Turing and Church discrete computability, but also pushing back in the analog=continuous notion
#analogComputing #cognitivescience

About Me – Corey J. Maley

Last was "Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind" by Peter Godfrey-Smith, who provides a compelling journey through the development of cognition, but this time with a wider aperture. Godfrey-Smith advances a compelling hypothesis around both the gradual emergence of cognition and for the inherently gradient-based nature of that phenomenon. Highly recommend

Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/10545912/s/a-provocative-manifesto-on-a-cognition-gradient#anchor-10545912 (4/4) #CognitiveScience #biology

Ben Waber's review of Metazoa - BookWyrm

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🗽 Understanding #FreeWill – What does it really mean to make free choices? 💪

#FreeWill doesn’t require #chance or metaphysical magic. For #DanielDennett, the matter is surprisingly clear:
We are free when we are #selfdeterminedagents.

📽 Interview: https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#PhilosophyOfMind #Consciousness #Agency #Determinism #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #DecisionMaking #Zoomposium

To be clear, I’m not saying that well-read, cultured people will automatically behave more wisely. Reading and culture are tools for the mind. Like any tool, their value depends on whether we choose to use them well. #Reading #Fiction #CognitiveScience #CriticalThinking #Books #Literature
STORYTELLING Part Two: The (Literal) Magic of Writing

Grammar/Glamour/Grimoire. 言霊 & heka. Spelling & spellcasting. The Word. Writing is generative, not descriptive. Cultures across millennia have understood that words conjure reality. Writing conjures, symbols activate the brain, serving as telepathy across distance and time.

brennan.day
Next was an interesting talk by Steve Chang on behavioral and neural mechanisms of cooperation in marmosets at Motivated Cognition Meetings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ2FN2l1HfU (3/8) #CognitiveScience #psychology
Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Cooperative Decision-Making with Steve Chang

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