In the context of PhD graduations at Dutch institutions, one is tasked to develop a series of postulates^[See also: [[Postulate]].] which reflect the contents of the dissertation (where 10 are scientifically defendable and one is whatever one wants it to be), these are mine: 1. Metaphorical thinking plays an often overlooked but significant role in everyday semantic exchanges, with metaphors serving as analogical devices that create systematic correspondences—or equivalences—between (other) conceptual structures. [[03 Semantic noise]], [[Negation]], [[Abstraction]], [[Equivalence]], [[Equivalence and difference]], [[Hardware-software metaphor]], [[Meat puppet]], [[Chunk]], [[Parse]].   2. Any monological thought process is, in fact, internalized dialogue (and *multilogue*); no language is private.  [[06 Principle of Sufficient Interest]], [[The excessive, infinite, recalcitrant other]], [[001.1 The Poltergeist in the Machine/Infinity]], [[Dialove]], [[Collective intentionality]].     3. Gravity constraints all thought. The physical force that binds bodies to Earth fundamentally shapes our cognitive architecture, and therefore also our metaphors and their ensuing concepts.  [[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]], [[Spatial reasoning]],     4. Cognition inherently functions as a predictive forecasting mechanism, what we call “reason(ing)” is fundamentally oriented toward anticipation of what has not yet occurred, resulting in its own (arbitrary) self-preservation.  [[05 Prediction]], [[Xpectator]], [[Vantagepointillism]], [[Illusion]].     5. Social power emerges, at its basis, from the control of attentional resources, and much of the power of (the marketing tool that is) artificial intelligence is the result, primarily, of a commercial, attention-grabbing narrative. All press is good press.  [[11 Post-Control Script-Societies]], [[Attention]], [[Problem]], [[Power]], [[Agency]].     6. Not knowing bounds knowledge. The recognition of epistemological limits, primarily what we regard as ignorance, creates the essential boundary conditions for all we consider knowledge and understanding.   [[12 Negintelligibility]], [[08 Active ignorance]].     7. Symmetry is a fundamental perceptual affordance. Dualisms of all sorts permeate our cognitive structures because we are predictive, symmetrical beings. Dichotomous conceptual frameworks may not accurately reflect non-binary aspects of reality.  [[Free energy principle]], [[Energy]], [[Constructor theory]], [[Computation]], [[Computational irreducibility]], etc.     8. The epistemological opacity of complex systems ensures that experimental and theoretical observations can only be apprehended through explanatory models that inevitably simplify their generative conditions.       9. Ratio is the best thing we have ever discovered, and the worst thing we have ever invented.  [[Chunk]], [[Parse]], [[Philosophies of computation and information]].     10. No to mechanism as “boring”, as repetition, yes to mechanism as “intelligible set of operations.” [[Mere machines]], [[The being of “mere” machines and “mere” propositions]], [[12 Negintelligibility]], [[Identity operator]], [[Reference]], [[Self-reference]].     11. “Achteraf lullen is makkelijk.” G. W. F. Hegel. Y lamentablemente por existir en este contexto, _yo llevo la marca de la gorra_ (Mala Fama). Pero sigo alta guacha, puro ritmo, vino tinto y sustancia. %% [[Stellingen notes]]