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The cognition property now publishes connected reference knowledge across mind, psychology, philosophy, and neurodivergence alongside a visibly separate Brajology research layer.
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An argument against moral policing, compulsory political identity, and surrendering your attention to somebody else's frame. By John Brajer.
CULTURE
A livestreamed proposal, a public split, and Chrisean Rock’s criticism of filming difficult moments raise a bigger cultural question: how does an audience change the conditions under which people make choices?
CULTURE
Lultrills is inviting the Trillionaires to a seven-night Halloween-week TikTok LIVE series, October 25–31 at 8 p.m. Pacific. The experiment: turn passive scrolling into live participation.
SYSTEMS
An explainer of John Brajer’s Causal Reactivation mechanism: dormant possibilities should return to attention when the conditions that suppressed them materially change.
SYSTEMS
An explainer of John Brajer’s Graded Dormancy mechanism: preserve temporarily uncompetitive possibilities at different levels of inactivity so changed conditions can make them relevant again.
SYSTEMS
An explainer of John Brajer’s Conditional Failure Memory: record why a possibility failed under a particular state, preserve it through graded dormancy, and reconsider it when relevant conditions change.
CULTURE
ReallyThat’s Read the Pen desk treats songs as writing: line-level reactions, device taxonomy, song-level arguments, artist-defined genre metadata, and cross-song connections across the John B / Lultrills catalog.
IDEAS · FRAMEWORK · No. 019
John Brajer’s CWI framework models the gap between what a person can do, what they can imagine, and what they psychologically permit themselves to choose—then uses PRS to track how crowds move the frontier.
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