Entrainment, Affective Thresholds, Attention, and Creative Freedom Conversation beginning October 25, 2026, through November 4, 2026. Note: this builds on HOW DID THAT COME TO MIND? Meta-tations (tangent migrations) and the Illusion of Free Agency and the 1990s “Cycle of Engagement” David Boulton — October 25, 2026, 11:36 AM Could too low a threshold
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Organic Phonemes and Early Literacy — (1 page summary) We established via research that 1st grade American children vary greatly in their history of word exposures with some children having experienced as little as 20 million words and some as many as 100 million. We established that 90 percent of 1st grade American children will
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Deep read our 12 point research summary of the Organic Phoneme Paradigm In our exploration of the VWFA and PQS you said: “with literacy, left ventral occipitotemporal cortex becomes increasingly tuned to the visual regularities of the writing system, ranging from letters through recurring letter combinations and larger orthographic units. Proposed hierarchies move from visual features
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VWFA research does not directly validate PQs. What it does reveal is a neural architecture of reading that makes the kind of intervention PQs performs especially interesting. The most relevant finding is that the VWFA is not simply a photographic “whole-word recognizer.” With literacy, left ventral occipitotemporal cortex becomes increasingly tuned to the visual regularities
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The following is Dr Todd Strong’s video on Toxic Emotions. It seems heading in a good direction in terms of establishing the effect of emotion on physicality, but its emotional categories are blurry. He is implicitly describing the effects of affect but conflating them into complexes in a way that distracts from realizing the affective
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Still preclinical, but now backed by convergent 2018→2025 evidence, PBN Y1R is the central, non-opioid switch for enduring pain. Do you understand the thesis implicit in: “Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain”: Nicholas Betley from the University of Pennsylvania has discovered that a previously overlooked group of neurons in the parabrachial
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These are most of the the chats that are part of the ChatGpt Project “PreLiterate Auditory Experiences: Organic Phonemes”. They are the background chats summarized in the “12 Keys of Organic Phonemes”. They are not in order of importance or occurrence, though this set began with “English “R” Sound Variations”. I am sharing them as
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“Children of the Code*” is a documentary project that explores the “Code and the Challenge of Learning to Read It“. It’s based on over 100 interviews with field leading scientists and scholars (overview of interviewees, transcripts, raw videos). The series distills over 1000 hours of conversations into 130 video components organized into 10 chapters. For
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Verbal and Nonverbal Learning Index of other dAilogues I wrote the following in 1987. Do you understand it? Do you agree with it? How would you say it today? Verbal awareness is not just the awareness of words but the organization of awareness by images, symbols, and words. Nonverbal awareness is not just the non-awareness
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Broadening the Definition of Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues Will you agree that for the remainder of this dailogue you will remember that the meaning of the word learning includes genetic expression, cellular adaptation, body conditioning, conscious learning, evolution of the species. In the next paragraph explain why you agree or disagree
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