About this Website

Welcome to Aether Mug! I'm Marco Giancotti.

This blog is not about science, philosophy, philosophers, languages, Japan, paintings, sea or air navigation, literature, picture frames, or boxes, although you may be forgiven if at first you believed it is all of these things.

It is about something, however, and something that I consider existentially, transcendentally important. The appropriate name for that something still eludes me, but I think it will transpire to the reader after reading more than a couple of these disconnected posts. Here are some good starting points:

Metacognition

• Embedded Prophesy Devices
• A Framing Is a Choice of Boundaries
• "Bad" Framings
• A Black-Box View of Life
• The Odysseus Black Box

Language

• A Fundamental Framing of Human Language
• Language is a Bottleneck for Thought
• The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language
• In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things

I also have another website, Plankton Valhalla, where I post longer essays about science, seen in a different (and hopefully more accessible) light.

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