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For some reason, a long time ago I took the advice of some Shakespeare character "not to lend nor a borrower be". I may not have the quote worded exactly right. I don't like loaning money. I've only done it once or twice since I got out of the Navy several decades ago, and I don't borrow money from friends.
It's not that I won't step up if a person is short a dollar or two because they figured wrong or literally forgot their wallet at a restaurant or in the check-out line at the grocery store, but to loan someone money out of my meager Social Security check to help them live a lifestyle that's grander than my bare survival gets tedious, and I get testy.
When I realize they're borrowing money from me to keep their reputation up with people who virtually live in expensive mansions with all the expensive modern conveniences, and eat out in restaurants several times a week, and I live in a unfinished rathole of a building with a minimum of conveniences and eat my own lousy cooking. I feel used and abused.
Recently I've written a bit about how homo sapiens seem especially gifted at data mining the various databases they encounter. Some deliberately encountered by design and other by random chance and serendipity. The focus of my curiosity in regard to data mining is the database source.
Various experts are considered experts usually because the database they mine for pertinent information is a database of previous experts experiences they establish as a source by their own efforts. Like people who wanna become chess grandmasters might memorize all the classical strategies of past chess grandmasters and even specific winning games from the last one hundred years.
Such a man-made database of other people's experiences not yet their own requires expertise merely to establish it in a knowable place (a rememberable location) and a way of retrieving it such that it solves problems through diagnosis.
This approach seems to work okay for many people, but I go about it in a little different way, but only because I use a different non-made experiential database as a source for retrieving ideas and using them as my own.
There is a fine word it took me a while to completely understand. Well, enough to use it confidently as I please, because I can delineate what it means very well to a rude critic. That term is "apperceive". It's easy to grasp the meaning of it. When humans perceive information from the sensory dimension it is stored away as memory.
Memory is an odd word to me. If I hyphenate the initial "me" it resolves to me-mory. If I change the "y" to an "e" it takes the form of me-more. Reverse it and it's more-me. I add an "of" to possess it, and its more-of-me. My memory is the more of me than you can see. Your memory is the "more" of you that makes "you" what you are to both of us. '-)
It's the "more" of you, that I can't perceive with my five senses. If you try to describe verbally what the more of you is, that I can't perceive with my sensory modalities, all I will hear is what I would be saying if I spoke the sa-me words.
Socially, in order to feign real verbal intercourse, I am forced by my lack of objective information concerning the more of you, except my subjective interpretation, to invent my own idea of what you describe. Eventually I have to assu-me what you're describing is what I see in my own "more" of me for the purpose of me-and-thee-ing (meaning).
Once sensory data about ongoing events are engulfed into one's memory banks, retrieving this non-sensory data for use in the sensory world is a ritual labeled by the auld people as a/perception. Sort of like negating sexuality by placing an "a" in front of sexual to spell asexual. I don't know why the second "p" is added.
Apperception is used to describe retrieving stored information from whatever source it comes from. But, it's more than just randomly retrieving experiential data. An example from chess mastery works for me.
Not only does a chess student have to memorize all the classical games for the last hundred years, but he has to be able to retrieve specific and pertinent data that associates to the game predicament he finds himself, but he has to learn to use it to win chess games strategically, and still have the animal instincts to go for the throat of his opponent when they bare it.
"Opportune moments in love and war, once lost, can seldom be regained."
~ Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
