4 April 2004. Yesterday, I revised my essay on creativity. (See Entry for 30 March 2004.) Two people who tried to read it couldn't get through the section in which I list and define a number of the terms I've coined for my theory of psychology, so I took out nearly all of them. The essay should prove easier to read, now.

Today, because I think they might strike some as an amusing curiosity item, but also because I'm not up to composing a better entry, I'm listing them here:

KNOWLECULE: a brain's representation of a unit of knowledge (e.g., a single word in a poem, when taken at its simplest face-value meaning--as "blue," for instance, would be when considered a generic term for the color blue and not a term for the range of wave-lengths that cause a person to experience blue, and/or for all the words' emotional connotations, and/or for all one's memories of its use in poems, etc.)

KNOWLEPLEX in my taxonomy is the brain's record of any closely related system or network of knowlecules--"blue," for example, when it does represent a range of wave-lengths, and/or what "blue" means emotionally to a person, and/or a person's memories of its use in poems, etc.

Note: what a particular "brain-record" of a datum or data is depends on the context of the datum or data: for instance, in a discussion of human organs, "brain" would be represented by a knowlecule, probably; in a discussion of the cells in a human body, it would be represented by a knowleplex. This may sound confusing--it does to me as I write this. But I believe a full explanation of my theory would make it all clear. That's for a later blog entry, though.

KNOWLEXPANSE the representation (or recording) in the brain of all the data a vocational field or the like, such as literature requires

KNOWLECULINK a link between two knowlecules; used to transmit energy from one to the other, or vice versa

NEO-KNOWLECULINK a knowleculink which is new for the individual forming it

NEO-KNOWLEPLEX the knowleplex formed when a neo-knowleculink is laid down

MICREATIVITY (short for "micro-creative"), the creativity that results when a neo-knowleplex is a neo-knowleplex only for the individual it arises in, not for society as a whole.

MAJORIGNATIVE adjective modifying an individual who forms a "neo- knowleplex" which is new to the individual's culture if the knowleplex comes to be highly valued by the individual's society

MINORIGNATIVE adjective modifying an individual who forms a "neo- knowleplex" which is new to the individual's culture if the knowleplex never comes to be highly valued by the individual's society: the gifted amateur interior decorator, or the Sunday painter of talent, for instance, but not most people, who are generally micreative person

CULTURATEUR maker of culturally-significant works of art, science or some other equally major cultural field; always majorignative

SAGACEPTUALITY or narrative-awareness. (This, to be very brief, has to do with a person's awareness of himself as the hero of a saga and is the basis of goal- directedness, deriving from the hunting-instinct that I believe even primitive organisms have; it also derives from the predator-avoidance instinct we all also seem to have--in which case one's sagaceptual goal is escape from an evil rather than acquisition of a good.

ABBERATEUR an agent of large-scale cultural abberation