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<span style="color:green">This page collects annotations that are small and don't warrant their own page. It is a drafting ground for in-progress writing, and some entries might migrate to a dedicated page as they grow.</span>
<span style="color:green">This page collects annotations that are small and don't warrant their own page. It is a drafting ground for in-progress writing, and some entries might migrate to a dedicated page as they grow. Also, as the manual grows, I expect more single line annotations to emerge, some entries to be broken up, and more fun to be had with the questionable linearity of the thesis!</span>
 
==About Thijs==
<span style="color:red">Necessary.</span>
<span style="color:green">This annotation is about introducing Thijs (me), as an attempt to situate the thesis and to give context for the personal parts of my writing.</span>
 
==About disassociation==
<span style="color:red">Necessary.</span>
<span style="color:green">This annotation is meant to give a (my) 'definition' of disassociation. Can be short.</span>
<span style="color:orange">Need reference(s).</span>


==About Text-Adventures==
==About Text-Adventures==
<span style="color:red">Necessary.</span>
<span style="color:red">Necessary.</span>
<span style="color:green">This annotation is about talking about text-adventures, accompanying [[User:Thijshijsijsjss/Human_Parser/About_Interactive_Fiction|another entry]] talking about interactive fiction. The latter makes a thematic connection to disassociation. This entry should be more explanatory of what TAs are. Can be shorter, and should annotate an 'early' part of the manual. Main references Get Lamp and Twisty Little Passages.</span>
<span style="color:green">This annotation is about talking about text-adventures, accompanying [[User:Thijshijsijsjss/Human_Parser/About_Interactive_Fiction|another entry]] talking about interactive fiction. The latter makes a thematic connection to dissociation. This entry should be more explanatory of what TAs are. Can be shorter, and should annotate an 'early' part of the manual. Main references Get Lamp and Twisty Little Passages.</span>
 
==About Obsolete Media==
<span style="color:red">Nice to have.</span>
<span style="color:green">Annotation acknolowedging the connection to obsolete media. It seems like this axis is not super present, which I'm okay with (there might still be some pen plotter action), but I think it's still nice to mention, and might connect to some other entries (like a potential FOMO entry).</span>
<span style="color:orange">Need reference(s). Ask Joseph?</span>
 
==About Functionality==
<span style="color:red">Necessary.</span>
<span style="color:green">Annotation about the term 'high functioning'. The game features a 'functionality score', and the player stops functioning once exceeding this number. This entry should be connected to the manual's part about the functionality score.</span>
 
==About FOMO==
<span style="color:red">Optional</span>
<span style="color:green">About the fear of missing out, and how IF opposes that. ~1 paragraph.</span>
<span style="color:orange">Maybe reference needed?</span>
 
==About Manuals==
<span style="color:red">Necessary.</span>
<span style="color:green">About the shortcomings of Manuals, and the format of this thesis. Maybe start with micro-anecdote. I imagine this annotation would be on one of the first manual pages. I'm still planning to open the manual with an email / letter, and think these could be attached there.</span>
 
===Manuals, 1===
<blockquote>I will never be able to fully understand you.</blockquote>
My mother told me this<ref>She told me this in Dutch: ''Ik zal je nooit volledig begrijpen.''</ref> over the phone, about 2 years ago. I have a great bond with my mother. We are very similar in many ways, but also very different in many more. Many of our conversations end in a newfound understanding of how exactly we differ. We notice different things, react differently to sensory stimuli and our thoughts follow different patterns. We have different ways of processing the world, each other and ourselves. She's quick to remind me that 'we're wired differently' -- and I think she finds comfort in that.
It's the great human tragedy that we're never able to fully comprehend another person's entirety. Maybe you can get a momentary glimpse in an instant, through means other than words, but that understanding is never sustained. Reversely, never being able to be fully understood can, at times, feel like an inescapable loneliness. But the great tragedy of not-understanding also holds the great human beauty: continuing to try to better understand each other regardless.
 
In conversation, an image of your conversation partner is created in your mind. Pretending understanding is equating the person to that image, and restricting that person to your understanding of them. To instead acknowledge the grey areas of understanding is a generous gift that allows for connections to develop and evolve. Hearing my mother acknowledge this, was immensly valuable in feeling seen.
 
<span style="color:green">Rough draft. This turned out longer than intended, and very personal, and I make some grand statements about the human experience that are only backed by my own experiences. Making up my mind how I feel about it, and curious about your thoughts.</span>
 
===Manuals, 2===
<blockquote>Some people come with a manual.</blockquote>
This is another statement that addresses the difficulty in understanding. However, instead of embracing the beauty in that, this sentence creates the illusion that there's a concise way to overcome it. While the intention might often be an honest, good-spirited attempt to acknowledge our differences, there's an implicit friction to a statement like this. Instead of realizing that understanding is a continued, mutual effort, 'the manual' makes it seem as if just one party is 'the problem'. Moreover, seemingly it's that party's responsibility to come with a tool to help others understand them. What could be a wonderfully rich asymmetry, is turned into a hierarchical mess. Why do 'some people' need an outside tool to speak for them? What does this 'manual' entail, anyway? How can any manual possibly convey all human nuance?
 
<span style="color:green">Rough draft. The tone's a little harsh. I notice I'm continuously trying to condense my throughts, and end up with Frankensteinian texts. Also wonder here if I want to make an explicit reference to the format of the thesis, or if the decisions for that are / will be clear enough.</span>
 
===Manuals, 3===
Being told to 'come with a manual' is often part of the neurodivergent experience. It feeds into a curious machinal, robotical analogy -- a stereotype that especially people with autism face. They're said to be 'wired' differently.
 
<span style="color:green">Don't know if this needs to be here. Also, for the whole section: references?</span>


==About Prophetic Diagnoses==
==About Prophetic Diagnoses==
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<span style="color:green">About how a label / description of you might influence you, as a self-fulfilling prophecy. After the player's functionality score is exceeded, the 'day ends' and they are presented a report of their actions. Can be connected there (someone's narration of your life / person makes you that person).</span>
<span style="color:green">About how a label / description of you might influence you, as a self-fulfilling prophecy. After the player's functionality score is exceeded, the 'day ends' and they are presented a report of their actions. Can be connected there (someone's narration of your life / person makes you that person).</span>


==About Parsing==
==About Human Parsers==
<span style="color:red">Good to have.</span>
<span style="color:red">Core / meta.</span>
<span style="color:green">About parsers (both TA and human). ZIL, Aarseth, Montfort references? Can easily connect to e.g. action verbs in manual.</span>
<span style="color:green">I think it would be nice to state the 'tagline' of my project. Yet to be decided if it should just be the tagline, or with some more elaboration. For now mirror the About Thijs / Thesis sections, but not attached to that idea.</span>
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A parser is an interpreting agent -- what is A HUMAN PARSER?
 
* A HUMAN PARSER is an interpreter that happens to be a human agent.
* A HUMAN PARSER is an interpreter that parses humans.
* A HUMAN PARSER makes the act of parsing, or interpreting, human.

Latest revision as of 00:06, 15 March 2025

This page collects annotations that are small and don't warrant their own page. It is a drafting ground for in-progress writing, and some entries might migrate to a dedicated page as they grow. Also, as the manual grows, I expect more single line annotations to emerge, some entries to be broken up, and more fun to be had with the questionable linearity of the thesis!

About Text-Adventures

Necessary. This annotation is about talking about text-adventures, accompanying another entry talking about interactive fiction. The latter makes a thematic connection to dissociation. This entry should be more explanatory of what TAs are. Can be shorter, and should annotate an 'early' part of the manual. Main references Get Lamp and Twisty Little Passages.

About Prophetic Diagnoses

Optional. About how a label / description of you might influence you, as a self-fulfilling prophecy. After the player's functionality score is exceeded, the 'day ends' and they are presented a report of their actions. Can be connected there (someone's narration of your life / person makes you that person).

About Human Parsers

Core / meta. I think it would be nice to state the 'tagline' of my project. Yet to be decided if it should just be the tagline, or with some more elaboration. For now mirror the About Thijs / Thesis sections, but not attached to that idea.

A parser is an interpreting agent -- what is A HUMAN PARSER?

  • A HUMAN PARSER is an interpreter that happens to be a human agent.
  • A HUMAN PARSER is an interpreter that parses humans.
  • A HUMAN PARSER makes the act of parsing, or interpreting, human.
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