User:Helioforge

Helioforge is a name-pointer used to refer to a specific person, and Helioforge Creations refers to the set of things (sculptures, concepts of complex understanding) created by Helioforge.

Perceptual Infrastructure is a concept first proposed by Helioforge as a foundation for tangible things constructed of and for perception. This concept can be understood by explaining the terms corresponding to the concept.

Foundation is known to be the groundwork supporting further development. This groundwork can be tangible, holding up a house, or perceptual, as in the Hollywood phenomenon. Aside from the tangible studios and soundstages, there are collective feelings, ideas, and concepts that are conveyed by consistent expression, associating tangible things to a corresponding imbuement of wonder.

Stereotype is also a perceptual phenomenon. People learn from their point of view. If all a person's knowledge about something is from second-hand sources, the person cannot know that thing directly. The essence of that experience is lost. If something that is not truely known is decided about, then there is no mystery to that thing because of the substitute information, and there is nothing to draw the person to discover the true nature of something.

"Naming is Deciding": A person needs a pointer to the information in their head. This pointer is a name: tree, fish, land, etc. To put a name to something is to connect the information in the brain to that name. By naming, one remembers more about what one is told about something (whether true or false), thus naming facilitates internal classification.

Magic: Any phenomenon, imbued with wonder, compensating for, or in place of understanding.

Artifact: Something left from previous use.

Words are just place-markers for tangible things, and give us an easy way to think, that keeps us from deciding for ourselves.

Tangible things provide a fullness of experience, and focusing on them opens our minds to the actual qualities of things.

In making, we experience things directly, in doing so, we recognize the inherent qualities of things, we learn the properties of materials, and connect with the intrinsic forces that drive the universe.

Making teaches ways of thinking, that facilitate learning, and optimize our capacity for understanding.