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Peekaboo (or peek-a-boo) is a simple interactive game played with infants, in which one participant hides their face or body and then suddenly reveals themselves while exclaiming “Peekaboo!” The game is often used to engage infants and stimulate their cognitive and social development. It is associated with the concept of object permanence, as young infants do not yet understand that hidden objects still exist.

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Object permanence

according to Swiss phycologist Jean Piaget, babies spend their first two years figuring out something called object permanence -- the idea that things still exist even when you can’t see them. At first, babies assume that if something disappears from view, it’s completely gone. But over time, as they experience things coming back again and again, they start to understand that objects (and people) don’t just vanish.

peekaboo is also about understanding patterns and expectations. according to the study, the fact that they find the predictable version funnier suggests that human thinking isn’t just about discovering new things; it thrives on stability and pattern recognition.

↳ this applies to adults, too. The reason we feel comfortable in our daily lives isn’t just because things are familiar, but because we trust that the world follows consistent rules. Peekaboo, in its simplest form, helps babies understand this idea early on.

Things that are out of sight still exists

this idea that something can be out of sight but still exist, goes beyond childhood learning.

do things exist even if we haven’t personally experienced them?
when something disappears from the sight, is it really gone?
what about time, relationships, emotions, or beliefs? do they persist even when we can’t actively see or feel them?

이 원리는 인간이 신뢰, 사랑, 기억, 그리고 존재 자체를 이해하는 방식과 연결된다. 우리가 물리적으로 보지 못하는 사람도 존재하고, 한때 있었던 감정이나 기억도 사라지는 것이 아니라 지속될 수 있으며, 우리의 경험 너머에도 세계는 계속해서 굴러간다는 개념이 여기에 포함된다.

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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

the relationship between objective reality and subjective experience
we constantly move between the stance of "“existence cannot be certain without experience” and “existence is acknowledged regardless of experience.”

Is belief possible without experience
Since we can’t personally experience everything in the world, belief becomes essential. without belief that goes beyond our experience, we would not be able to fully navigate the world.

↳belief isn’t something fixed forever—it constantly shifts and evolves.

↳We can never fully experience the world, nor can we blindly believe everything. But we navigate life by continuously choosing what to trust and what to question along the way.

↳our way of understanding the world stands on a balance between belief and experience.

Performativity

❶ Wikipedia/Performativity
📖 Keywords for Radicals
📑 Looking back and not behind

plotter ripple, code by Lexie

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Performativity is the concept that language, actions, and behaviors not only describe reality but actively contribute to the construction and reinforcement of social realities through repeated enactment within a given cultural or institutional context.

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

📑 Beyond Follows: Trust In Computing

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Subliminal Messasing

📖 Can Jokes Bring Down Governments?

Side Narrative

📖 The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
📖 The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

User:Zuhui//Personal Reader/glossary

Contents

C

Clinamen

Constraint

D

Dialogic Image

F

Family Tree

Flow Chart

J

Jokes

L

Luddites

N

Nomenclature

Non-linear Narrative

Nonsense

O

Organising-without-organisation

P

Peekaboo