daniele capo

I was reading something about note taking (and note taking application) and I started thinking about an ‘unconscious’ simulator. Uhm, maybe my idea was more proustian than freudian, and, basically was that:

• when something passes through your mind sinks in your ‘unconsciuos’
• when something sinks in your ‘unconscious’ (like a madeleine) some ‘related’ thought ‘surfaces’ to the conscience

So, the script functions are:

• you write a short sentence
• the sentence is recorded in the ‘unconscious file’
• after that, five sentences surface from the ‘unconscious file’ and are displayed, like an answer
• the sentences are choosen by ‘analogy’ but with some randomness to avoid the simplistic determinism

	--------------------------
	| 			 |
	| 			 |
	|     conscious mind     |
	|		         |
	|		         |
	--------------------------
	    |              ^
	    |              | unvoluntary
madeleine |              | memory
	    |              |
	    |              |
	    v              |
	--------------------------
	| 			 |
	| 			 |
	|    unconscious mind    |
	|		         |
	|		         |
	--------------------------

Writing the script I noted (and, it was so obvious) that language is full of ‘generic’ words that have a value only in a context. So if two senteces contain the verb ‘was’, this saya nothing. If the two senteces contain the word ‘kerning’, well maybe they have the same subject. That’s why you need to write a dictionary where you put generic auxiliary words. I also remove very short words (in italian usually articles etc.)

Another step would be adding a mix-it-all function that takes every word (not blacklisted) and produces a big stream of uncosciousness.

You can download the script in all is uncompleteness at my downloads page.

ps.

Today I’ve read the book Time Management for Creative People by Marc McGuinness and I remixed in my mind the idea getting things out of your mind. Although I think  you cannot really get things out of your mind (at least, if you are not schizophrenic), I found that idea interesting for my unconscious script. The difference between the idea of buckets of the GTD method and my script is that here everything is remixed and cannot be accessed rationally (except you can extract a sentence providing a number, maybe I can consider to delete this functionality.)