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 ten are scientifically defendable—five of which are original, five of which are inherited from others—and one is whatever one wants it to be), these are mine:     1. Metaphorical thinking plays an often overlooked but significant role in all semantic exchanges, with metaphors serving as analogical devices that create systematic correspondences—or equivalences—between conceptual structures.^[The sources leading to this observation are plenty, some of the ones cited in this thesis as: School of Names, Masterman, Lakoff & Johnson, Hofstadter & Mitchell. The corresponding entries and chapters are: [[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 therefore *multilogue*); no language is private.^[We can think of Bakhtin, Wittgenstein here. Entries and chapters: [[06 Principle of Sufficient Interest]], [[The excessive, infinite, recalcitrant other]], [[001.1 The Poltergeist in the Machine/Infinity]], [[09 C is for Communism, and Constraint]], [[Collective intentionality]].]     3. Gravity constrains all thought. It fundamentally shapes our cognitive architecture, and therefore also our metaphors; their ensuing concepts and our understanding of the (mathematical) structures of systems such as language models.^[[[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]], [[Spatial reasoning]], [[Orientation]].]     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. Concepts are pre-dictions.^[[[Active inference and Self-reference]], [[04 Concepts as pre-dictions]], [[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. This can result in violences of many kinds.^[[[12 Negintelligibility]], [[08 Active ignorance]], [[Negation]], [[04 Concepts as pre-dictions]].]     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.^[Roger Shepard definitely showed us this. Entries: [[All things mirrored]], [[Free energy principle]], [[Energy]], [[Computation]], [[Computational irreducibility]].]     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, and this is epistemically generative.^[This is another way of saying “All models are wrong” (Box), but in other words. See: [[Edging thermodynamic equilibrium]], [[12 Negintelligibility]].]     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_.^[[[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]], [[09 C is for Communism, and Constraint]], [[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 ser/estar en este contexto, _yo llevo la marca de la gorra_ (Mala Fama). Puro ritmo, vino tinto y sustancia. ### Footnotes %% [[Stellingen notes]]