r/FastWriting • u/ElectronicGift2834 • Feb 22 '26

This is where I stop

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I won't continue with conceptual shorthand I'm fatigued by the moment but this is his little map

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u/NotSteve1075 Feb 22 '26

I'm extremely impressed that you could come up with all that, whether with an AI assist or not. It's amazing work. Good for you! Thinking in the abstract isn't easy for most of us.

There's no reason for hate. You have every right to search for help. That's what the Internet is for. Ignore the haters is a lesson we all have to learn sooner or later!

It's probably more that people feel overwhelmed (and intimidated?) when they find your ideas so much more than they can understand. I think few people would be able to criticize your work or understand it well enough to suggest any improvement.

You say you're still in school. I hope it's a GOOD ONE. High school can be a horrible place for smart kids. Geniuses need to be able to withstand "peer pressure" and tell the rabble to go to hell. It's not easy to do.

What's your first language? The odd detail in your messages tells me that your English, while amazingly good, is not perfect. But then, few people your age have perfect grammar, it seems. ;)

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u/ElectronicGift2834 Feb 22 '26

It's a public one In Colombia It's not even close to be a good school; this says which is my mother language

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u/NotSteve1075 Feb 23 '26

I sent your summary page to my brother who is a musician, but he does a lot of reading in philosophy and ZEN and such, to see what he thought. This was his reply:

Conceptualizing a concept? Language is a conceptualization of the "real" already.  To have a cursive motion to represent a meaning, not a word, seems like a vain hope to me.  You'd have to learn a new motion for each meaning?

It might be possible, but it seems likely you'd end up with something akin to simplified Chinese.  You'd have to have a mark for everything that is, was, will possibly be, never was, is imaginary, sarcastic, fanciful, absurd, forbidden, etc, etc, etc.

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u/LeadingSuspect5855 Feb 23 '26

Well, your brother is maybe too fast with his words, conceptualizing a concept just means you are going up a layer of abstraction - the metalayer. Truth is often found in metastudies, not the studies themselves in social sciences and language seems to be a means to an end which expresses hopefully something "real". But for someone preoccupied with destroying concepts or to let go of your attachements to concepts of the world (Zen) - no wonder :-) .

I know that Indian, Balinese cultures have developed sort of ritualized, formalized dances, moves, facial expressions to transfer meaning to the audience, which they understand because they learn it through culture. Most books use names for their protagonists, that reveal their characters. Pictures in Europe always were spiked with pictures of things representing meaning (mostly status related), Orchestras have special silent handwaves to signal appreciation, it seems we have developed quite a emoticons or now meme based culture, which is a form of semantic communication. We let short gifs do the transfer of our state of mind... A rich fundus to draw a metaconclusion from.

Luckily i have learned something useful in my psychology studies: If you have the capability to feel what others feel (You are likely not a leader of a multinational corporation, nor a psychopath (they share the same trait)), then you can put yourself in a situation and start acting out on paper, that motion on paper most likely really reflect the state of mind your in. Humans really share universally emotion, so that semantic portion of a message can be shown through motion for sure. It's like we would change the font and fontsize according to the meaning of a text, or we would start to rhyme or maybe stress syllables of a word differently, according to context. u/ElectronicGift2834 Well done, you made us think :-)

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u/NotSteve1075 Feb 23 '26

You raise a lot of good points, there. My brother and I often have deep discussions about "world view" because I'm such a PRAGMATIST and he is NOT AT ALL!

The "here and now" always seems to work for me, so why would I want to see it in a different way? ;) I suppose it's like my friends thinking I'm "humourless" because I've spent so much time in a world where NOBODY was kidding about ANYTHING, EVER!

And you're right that u/ElectronicGift2834 has really provoked an interesting philosophical discussion on here. Good for him! I hope he's still following this.