Pace Ellsworth and BJ Hamaker talk about the ontograph. Pace relates it to linguistics, shared experience across species, Platonic ideals, and brings the term “ontotype” to the conversation.
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Chat with Ben Muhlestein
I had the pleasure of talking to my new friend Ben Muhlestein about the ontograph for the first time while we shepherded the young men at summer camp this year. The conversation is recorded for your edification, if you can excuse the vacation audio quality. You are more than welcome to comment below. We’d both… Continue reading Chat with Ben Muhlestein
Ontographs are tiny.
It’s funny to think that your mental map of the entire universe could be tiny, but compared to the actual universe, it is. If you were able to look back at all the things going on around you at any moment, you’d see unlimited events occurring that you didn’t have time to experience, consider, or… Continue reading Ontographs are tiny.
Sharing Ontographs
I’m sharing my ontograph with you right now. Ideas we communicate are little pieces of one ontograph that a person passes to another, expanding the recipient’s ontograph. That means our ontographs are interpermeable and overlapping. You could think of a Venn diagram where circle A is your ontograph and circle B is mine. We meet… Continue reading Sharing Ontographs
Why name it “ontograph”?
Ontos is Greek for existence: “to be.” I didn’t want to limit the ontograph to perception, because an ontograph includes things that may not be perceived or understood in the moment. I didn’t want to confuse it with a biography, because a biography typically includes only those events and experiences that are relatable to others.… Continue reading Why name it “ontograph”?
What is an ontograph?
An ontograph is a record of a person’s experience of existence. Like a map, your ontograph details where you have been. Like a biography, it details what you have done. Like a poem, it details how you feel. Your ontograph contains all your experiences, your feelings about those experiences, and even the parts of those… Continue reading What is an ontograph?